About the records


Title Letters to Ignacio Matte Blanco (P31)
Date Range c. 1939 - c. 1956 (two items undated)
Creator Blanco, Ignacio Matte (1908-1995) psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
Extent 1 file (6 items)
Repository Archives of the British Psychoanalytical Society
Abstract Copies of six letters received by Matte Blanco commenting on his psychoanalytic work.

Administrative Information

Administrative/biographical history

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Archival history/source of acquisition

Donated by Ignacio Matte Blanco in 1988 (Accession 1988-002). The letters were originally added to the archives' correspondence collection (ref. CMB/F07) but recatalogued as a single collection in 2006. They were also recopied onto archival quality paper at this time.


Content and structure

Scope and Content

Photocopies of six letters received by Matte Blanco commenting on his psychoanalytic work. The collection comprises one letter from each of the following people: Wilfred Bion, Sigmund Freud, Ernest Jones, Melanie Klein, Bertrand Russell and Walter Schmideberg.

Accruals

No further accruals are expected.

System of arrangement

The letters are arranged alphabetically, by author.


Conditions of access and use

Access conditions

Open for consultation by bona fide researchers, subject to prior arrangement with the archivist and the signing of a reader's undertaking form. Please note that any material from the Bulletin of the British Psychoanalytical Society is available only to members, students and guests of the Society.

Reproduction conditions

Photocopying is carried out at the discretion of the archivist and according to the archives’ photocopying policy, which is available on request. Copies of material still in copyright can be supplied for research use only. Written permission must be obtained from the archivist to publish or reproduce any material held in the archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearance from the copyright holder.

Language(s) of materials

English.

Finding aids

The collection catalogue is published online and a printed copy is available.


Allied materials

Related materials

The Wellcome Library holds a small amount of correspondence between Matte-Blanco and John Bowlby, 1966-1970 (ref. PP/BOW/J.9/26).

Publication note

No known publications based on this material.


Notes

None.


Published by the Archives of the British Psychoanalytical Society,
With support from The Wellcome Trust
Listed by Allie Dillon
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Updated 8 April 2008

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