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Series VIII: Gifts

Otto Rank papers, 1903-1988, bulk 1903-1940

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Series I: Cataloged Correspondence

Subseries I.1: Freud-Rank Correspondence, 1907-1925

Originally in three envelopes, the Freud-Rank Ferenczi Committee letters are in a physical order determined by Rank and must be retained in this original order; therefore, the folder numbers are out of sequence with this alphabetic listing. Box 1 contains folders 1-82.


Box 1 Folder 60 Abraham, Karl et al. To Otto Rank, Berlin, 25 Dec. 1924, 2 page t.l.s.

Box 1 Folder 19 Andreas, Lou To Otto Rank, [n.p.], 13 July 1922, 2 page a.l.s.

[includes note signed by Anna Freud]

Box 1 Folder 78 Bernays, Edward L. To Otto Rank, New York, 19 May 1924, 1 page t.l.

[copy]

Box 1 Folder 61 Eitingon, Max To Otto Rank, Berlin, 26 Dec. 1924, 2 page a.l.s.

Box 1 Folder 60 Eitingon, Max et al. To Otto Rank, Berlin, 25 Dec. 1924, 2 page t.l.s.

Box 1 Folder 41, 48, 52, 53 Ferenczi, Sandor To Otto Rank, Budapest, 18 March - 7 June 1924, 4 a.l.s.

Box 1 Folder 24 Freud, Anna To Otto Rank, Gotingen, 31 July 1922, 2 page a.l.s.

Box 1 Folder 38, 69 Freud, Sigmund To Committee, Vienna, 26 Nov. 1922 Jan. 1924, 1 a.l.s., 1 t.l.s.

Box 1 Folder 42, 47 Sigmund Freud To Sandor Ferenczi, Vienna, 20 - 26 March 1924, 2 t.l.

[Copies]

Box 1 Sigmund Freud To Otto Rank, [n.p.], 1907 - 1925, 37 a.l.s., 3 a.n.s., 4 t.l.s.

Folders 5-12, 14-18, 20-23, 25-28, 30-31, 35-37, 40, 45, 50-51, 54, 56-57, 64, 68, 71-72, 75, 76, 79-81

Box 1 Folder 29 Jones, Ernest To Committee, Elsted, England, Aug 1922, 3 page t.l.s.

Box 1 Folder 62 Jones, Ernest To Otto Rank, London, 1 Jan 1925, 2 page t.l.s.

Box 1 Folder 13, 59, 63, 70 Rank, Otto To Committee, Vienna, 1920 - 1925, 4 t.l.

[(carbons)]

Box 1 Folder 39, 44, 46, 55, 73, 74 Rank, Otto To Sigmund Freud, Vienna and New York, 1923 - 1924, 2 a.l.s., 1 a.l., 3 t.l.

Box 1 Folder 43, 49, 58 Rank, Otto To Sandor Ferenczi, Vienna and New York, 20 March - 10 Dec. 1924, 3 t.l.

[(carbons)]

Box 1 Folder 77 Rank, Otto To Edward L. Bernays, New York, 17 May 1924, 1 page t.l.

[(copy)]

Box 1 Folder 60 Sachs, Hans et al. To Otto Rank, Berlin, 25 Dec. 1924, 2 page t.l.s.

Subseries I.2: Rundbriefe

Letters regarding the debate over "Das Trauma der Geburt" and other psychoanalytic issues


Box 2 & 3 Abraham, Karl To Committee, Berlin, 1920 - 1923, 19 t.l.s., 5 t.l.s. (carbon), 1 p.c.s.

Folders 88, 90, 104, 108, 110, 113, 116, 121, 125, 128, 132, 134, 138, 142, 146, 150, 150, 154, 158, 178, 182, 187, 189, 197, 325, 374.

Box 2 & 3 Abraham, Karl & Max Eitingon To Committee, Berlin, 1920 - 1923, 7 t.l.s., 2 t.l. (carbon)

Folders 119, 212, 216, 218, 258, 262, 266, 361, 375

Box 2 & 3 Abraham, Karl et al. To Committee, Berlin, 1920 - 1923, 23 t.l.s., 1 t.l.s. (carbon)

Folders 193, 205, 222, 252, 283, 297, 306, 312, 314, 319, 329, 334, 347, 351, 366, 368, 371, 384, 392, 397, 401, 404, 406.

Box 2 & 3 Abraham, Karl To Committee, Berlin, 1921-1924, 22 t.l.s., 1 t.l.s. (carbon)

Folders 115, 174, 201, 209, 227, 229, 236, 240, 247, 248, 269, 273, 277, 288, 293, 398, 337, 340, 345, 354, 358, 364, 380.

Box 2 & 3 Folder 168, 304, 379 Eitingon, Max To Committee, [n.p.] & Berlin, 1921 - 1923, 1 a.l.s., 2 t.l.s.

Box 2 & 3 Ferenczi, Sandor To Committee, Budapest, 1920 - 1924, 1 a.l., 10 a.l.s., 44 a.l. (carbon), 5 p.c.s., 7 t.l.s., 2 t.l.s. (carbon)

Folders 86, 91, 94, 98, 102, 106, 117, 123, 127, 130, 136, 139, 143, 149, 151, 155, 161, 163, 170, 171, 175, 180, 183, 188, 190, 194, 200, 202, 208, 211, 219, 228, 230, 233, 237, 241, 244, 251, 256, 260, 263, 267, 270, 274, 279, 281, 289, 292, 294, 308, 309, 311, 315, 321, 326, 333, 338, 343, 348, 350, 355, 359, 369, 373, 385, 388, 393, 395, 403, 408

Box 2 & 3 Folder 84, 147, 167, 285, 323 Freud, Sigmund To Committee, Vienna, [n.d.] & 1921 - 1922, 2 a.l.s., 1 t.l.s., 1 t.l.s., 1 folder (7 pages of holograph, 1 page signed)

Box 2 & 3 Jones, Ernest To Committee, London, 1920 - 1924, 81 t.l.s., 1 t.l.s. (carbon)

Folders 89, 92, 95, 99, 103, 107, 111, 112, 120, 129, 131, 135, 140, 144, 148, 152, 156, 159, 164, 169, 172, 176, 181, 184, 186, 191, 195, 198, 203, 306, 213, 215, 220, 223, 225, 231, 235, 238, 242, 245, 249, 253, 255, 259, 264, 268, 272, 275, 280, 282, 286, 290, 295, 300, 303, 305, 310, 317, 320, 322, 328, 331, 335, 339, 344, 346, 353, 356, 362, 365, 370, 376, 378, 381, 383, 391, 396, 398, 400, 405, 407


Box 2 Folder 97 Mackenzie, W To Committee, Genoa, 23 Oct. 1920, 3 page t.l.

Box 2 Folder 100 Pfister, O To Committee, Zurich, 26 Oct 1920, 2 page t.l.


Box 3 Folder 277a Rank, Otto To Sigmund Freud, Vienna, 22 April 1922, 1 page t.l.

[(carbon copy of page two only) (filed as #277a of the Rundbriefe)]


Box 2 Rank, Otto To Committee, Vienna & Seefeld, (1 of 2), 1920 - 1924, 1 t.l (carbon), 5 t.l., 5 t.l.s. (carbons), 65 t.l. (carbons)

Folders 87, 93, 96, 101, 105, 109, 114, 118, 122, 126, 133, 137, 141, 145, 153, 157, 160, 165, 166, 173, 177, 179, 185, 192, 196, 199, 204, 207, 210, 214, 247, 221, 224, 226, 232, 239, 243, 246.


Box 3 Rank, Otto To Committee, Vienna & Seefeld, (2 of 2), 1920 - 1924, 1 t.l (carbon), 5 t.l., 5 t.l.s. (carbons), 65 t.l. (carbons)

Folders 250, 254, 257, 261, 265, 271, 276, 278, 284, 287, 291, 296, 399, 301, 302, 307, 313, 316, 324, 330, 332, 336, 341, 342, 349, 352, 357, 360, 363, 367, 372, 377, 382, 387, 390, 394, 399, 402.

Box 3 Folder 389 Sachs, Hans To Committee, Berlin, 16 Jan. 1924, 1 a.l.s.

[(on verso t.l.s. from Eitingon)]


Box 2 Folder 85, 162 Sachs, Hans To Committee, Berlin, 1 April 1920 & 2 March 1921, 1 a.l.s., 1 a.l.s. (carbon)

Subseries I.3: Journal Correspondence

Letters regarding journal printed in Vienna. In Box 4, Folders 411-555


Box 4 Folder 535 Clark, L. Pierce To Ernest Jones, New York, 10 Nov. 1920, 1 page t.l.s.

Box 4 Folder 443 Forsyth, David To Ernest Jones, London, 18 April 1920, 1 t.l. (copy)

[(filed with Ernest Jones- folder 443)]

Box 4 Folder 448 Forsyth, David To Ernest Jones, London, 21 April 1920, 1 page t.l. (copy)

[(filed with Ernest Jones folder 448)]

Box 4 Hiller, Eric To Otto Rank, London, 8 Jan. - 6 Dec. 1920, 1 a.l.s., 1 p.c.s., 2 p.c., 42 t.l.s.

Folders 412, 413, 415, 419, 421, 424, 426, 427, 432, 434, 435, 436, 438, 444, 446, 447, 449, 453, 458, 461, 463, 479, 480, 484, 488, 494, 496, 502, 504, 505, 506, 507, 508, 509, 510, 513, 517, 522, 526, 527, 531, 534, 540, 541, 547, 554.

Box 4 Jones, Ernest To Otto Rank, London & Elsted, 20 Jan. - 14 Dec. 1920, 1 a.l.s., 1 a.n.s., 27 t.l.s., 6 t.l., 8 p.c., 1 telegram

Folders 414, 417, 418, 425, 429, 433, 437, 439, 450, 454, 455, 456, 457, 462, 465, 466, 469, 470, 472, 473, 476, 478, 483, 486, 490, 493, 497, 503, 512, 516, 518, 519, 520, 521, 528, 532, 537, 538, 539, 542, 545, 546, 551, 555.

Box 4 Folder 443 Jones, Ernest To David Forsyth, London, 20 April 1920, 1 page t.l. (copy)

Box 4 Folder 448 Jones, Ernest To David Forsyth, London, 24 April 1920, 4 page t.l.s. (carbon copy)

Box 4 Folder 511 Rank, Otto To Hans Liebermann, Vienna, 30 Sept. 1920, 1 page t.l. (carbon)

Box 4 Folder 491 Rank, Otto To Katherine Jokl Jones (Mrs. Ernest), Vienna, 30 July 1920, 1 page t.l. (carbon)

Box 4 Rank, Otto To Ernest Jones, Vienna, 16 Feb. - 4 Dec. 1920, 1 t.l., 30 t.l. (carbon)

Folders 420, 423, 430, 442, 445, 452, 459, 460, 464, 468, 471, 474, 477, 481, 487, 489, 495, 498, 499, 501, 515, 523, 524, 530, 533, 536, 544, 548, 550, 552, 553.

Box 4 Rank, Otto To Eric Hiller, Vienna, 29 Jan. - 30 Nov. 1920, 1 t.l., 2 t.l. (copies), 14 t.l. (carbon)

Folders 416, 422, 428, 431, 440, 441, 451, 475, 482, 485, 492, 500, 514, 525, 529, 543, 549.

Box 4 Folder 467 Smith, Ely Jellife To Otto Rank, New York, 6 June 1920, 1 page t.l.s.

Subseries I.4: General Correspondence


Box 5 Arnold, [?] Postal to Rank. Homer., [n.p.], 29 January 1918, 1 p.c.s.

Box 5 Luria, Al. To Otto Rank, Wien, 25 September 1923, 1 page a.l.s.

Box 5 Beck To Otto Rank, Wien, 14 November 1917, 3 page t.l.s.

Box 5 Brill, Abraham To Otto Rank, New York, 28 Sept. 1920, 1 page t.l.s.

[With unrelated newsclipping]

Box 5 Brink, Louise To Otto Rank. Der Doppelganger, New York, 4 June 1920, 2 page t.l.s.

Box 5 Buerki, Emil To Otto Rank, [n.p.], 19 September 1923, 1 p.c.

Box 5 Curtis Brown, Ltd. To Stanley Unwin, London, 2 Jan. 1922, 2 page t.l.

[(copy signed by L.E. Poilinger. Filed with Ernest Jones correspondence to Stanley Unwin 5 Jan 1922.)]

Box 5 Coriat, Isador H. To Ernest Jones, Boston, 4 April 1921, 4 page t.l.s.

Box 5 Danoli, L. To Otto Rank, [n.p.], 10 May 1908, 3 page a.l.s.

Box 5 Doerpfeld, Wilhelm To [Otto Rank], Berlin, 1 Feb. 1919, 4 page a.l.s.

Box 5 Drerup, E To Otto Rank. Homer., [n.p.], 1914, 1 p.c.s.

Box 5 Ferenczi, Sandor To Otto Rank, [n.p.], [1924], 2 page a.l.s.

[(with English translation)]

Box 5 Ferenczi, Sandor To [Otto Rank?], [n.p.], 20 June 1913, 4 page a.l.

Box 5 Flammarion Library To Otto Rank. Kunst und Kunstler., [n.p.], 20 September 1933, 2 page t.l.s.

Box 5 Floch, J. To Otto Rank, [n.p.], [n.d.], 1 page t.l.s.

Box 5 Forsyth, David To Ernest Jones, [n.p.], 11 Feb. 1922, 1 page a.l.s.

[(Filed with Ernest Jones 6 Feb 1922)]

Box 5 Freud, Ernst To Otto Rank, Berlin, 26 October 1922, 4 page a.l.s.

Box 5 Freud, Ernst To Otto Rank, [n.p.], 15 November 1922, 4 page a.l.s.

Box 5 Freud, Sigmund To Committee, [n.p.], [19--], 3 a.l.

[(Includes summary of contents in English)]

Box 5 Freud, Sigmund To Otto Rank, Karlsbad & Vienna, 1907 - 1913, 3 a.p.c.s., 2 a.l.s. (on cards)

Box 5 Freud, Sigmund To Committee, [n.p.], [n.d.], 8 page a.l.

[Draft; includes typescript summary of contents in English, 2 copies]

Box 5 Freud, Sigmund To Committee, [n.p.], [n.d.], 4 page a.l.

[Draft; includes typescript summary of contents in English, 2 copies]

Box 5 Freud, Sigmund To Otto Rank, [n.p.], 25 July 1913 - September 1922, 4 a.p.c.s.

Box 5 Freud, Sigmund To Edward Bernays, Vienna, April 7 & June 20, 1924, 2 t.l.s.

[6459B 9/28/99 Accn: 99/00-23]

Box 5 Gotz, Berndt Letters to Otto Rank, [n.p.], 8 July and 16 July 1931, 2 a.l.s.

Box 5 Grotjahn, Martin To [?], Beverly Hills, CA, 29 Feb 1968

[Includes translations, photocopies, and photos of letters dated 16 July 1916 and 26 July 1916 from Freud to Rank.]

Box 5 Halle, S. To Dr. Gelliffe, [n.p.], [n.d.], 5 page a.l.s.

Box 5 Heusler, Andreas To Otto Rank, Berlin, 2 Feb. 1919, 2 page t.p.c.s.

Box 5 E.J. Letter to Rank. Doppelganger., [n.p.], 7 July 1920 [?], 1 page t.l.s.

Box 5 Jacobs, D.K. To Otto Rank. Kunst und Kunstler, New York, 24 March 1932, 1 page 1 t.l.s.

Box 5 Jones, Ernest To David Forsyth, [n.p.], 6 Feb 1922, 1 page t.l.s. (carbon copy initialed by Jones)

Box 5 Jones, Ernest To Stanley Unwin, [London?], 5 Jan 1922, 2 page t.l.s.

[(carbon copy initialed by Jones)]

Box 5 Jones, Ernest To Otto Rank, London & Elsted, 1919 - [1923?], 2 t.l.s., 1 t.p.c.

Box 5 Kaspar [Franz Deuticke Bookstore] To Otto Rank. Books about Mark Twain, [n.p.],, 18 September 1933, 1 p.c.

Box 5 Kerr, A. To Otto Rank, [n.p.], 4 July 1913, 1 page a.l.s.

Box 5 Koonerg, Karl To Otto Rank. Traumdeutung., [n.p.], 3 May 1909, 1 page t.l.

Box 5 Mei To Otto Rank, [n.p.], [n.d.], 1 page a.l.s.

Box 5 Mellert, K. To Otto Rank. Odipustraum., [n.p.], 6 September 1923, 1 page a.l.s.

Box 5 Merrill, Greta To Otto Rank., New York, 24 October 1935, 2 page a.l. & t.l.s.

Box 5 Mielle, F. van To Otto Rank, [n.p.], 29 September 1925, 4 page a.l.s.

Box 5 Odier, Charles To Otto Rank, [n.p.], 22 January 1926, 4 page a.l.s.

Box 5 Peter Davies Ltd To Otto Rank, [n.p.], 21 October 1933, 1 page t.l.

[Re: Publishing of "Charles Dickens"]

Box 5 Pohek, Margueritte To [?], [n.p.], [n.d.], 3 page a.l.s.

[Includes her transcription of an Isidor Sax lettter]

Box 5 Rank, Otto To J. Jessie Taft, New York, 16 Oct. 1939, 2 page a.l.s.

Box 5 Rank, Otto To Ethel Seiderman Wannemacher, Buffalo & New York,, 1936 - 1938, 2 a.l.s., 2 t.l.s.

Box 5 Rank, Otto To Dorothy Hankins, New York & Philadelphia, 1934 - 1939, 8 a.l.s., 1 t.l.s., 1 telegram

Box 5 Rank, Otto To Harry Bone, New York & Paris, 1934 - 1935, 2 t.l.s., 2 a.l.

Box 5 Rank, Otto To Pearce Bailey, [v.p.], 1933 - 1939, 15 t.l.s., 1 t.l., 6 a.l.s., 1 telegram

Box 5 Rank, Otto To Lloyd J. Thompson, Paris, 18 March 1929, 1 page t.l.s.

Box 5 Rank, Otto To Virginia P. Robinson, [v.p.], 1927 - 1939, 9 a.l.s.

[With 8 related items]

Box 5 Rank, Otto To Virginia Robinson, [Philadephia], 1 Nov. & 1 Dec. 1927, 2 a.d.s.

[(receipts to Virginia Robinson for payments for her psychoanalytic sessions with Rank. Filed with 9 a.l.s. to Virginia Robinson 1927 - 1939)]

Box 5 Rank, Otto To J. Jessie Taft, [v.p.], 1924 - 1939, 195 a.l.s., 1 a.n., 1 a.p.c.s., 10 t.l.s., 1 t.l., 1 telegram

Box 5 Rank, Otto To George Wilbur, New York & Paris, 1927 - 1934, 4 a.l.s., 1 t.l.s.

Box 5 Rank, Otto To Theodor Reik, Vienna, 14 Nov. 1922, 2 page t.l.s.

Box 5 [Rank, Otto] To Karl Abraham, Modling, 8 Aug 1921, 2 page t.l.

Box 5 Rank, Otto To Deutsche Bank, Filale Munchen, [Vienna], 23 Oct. & 2 Nov. 1920, 2 t.l. (carbons)

[(2 replies from bank enclosed)]

Box 5 Rank, Otto To Abraham A. Brill, [Vienna], 1920 - 1921, 3 t.l. (carbons)

Box 5 Rank, Otto To Ernest Jones, [Vienna], 11 Jan 1919, 1 page t.l. (carbon)

Box 5 Rank, Otto To Varendonck, J., [n.p.], 14 December 1923, 1 page t.l. (carbon)

Box 5 Rank, Otto To L. Brink. Der Doppelganger., [n.p.], 1 July 1920, 1 page t.l. (carbon)

Box 5 Rank, Otto To Beatrice Taussig, [n.p.], Aug. 7 & Aug. 18 1933, 1 page each. t.l. (carbon)

[About Mark Twain]

Box 5 Reik, Theodor To Otto Rank. Inzest-Motiv, [n.p.], [n.d.], 2 page a.l.s.

[Includes his mss. "Der Traum von Geschlechts verkehr mit der Mütter"]

Box 5 Ressman To Otto Rank. Der Mythus, [n.p.], 28 April 1909, 3 page a.l.s.

Box 5 Robenus Letter to Rank, [n.p.], 14 September 1912, 1 page t.l.s.

Box 5 Rosenbaum, Belle To Otto Rank. Das Trauma., [n.p.], 8 March 1930, 1 page t.l.s.

Box 5 Sax, Isidor To [Marguerite Pohek], [n.p.], 10 January 1940, 4 page t.l.

[Letter transcribed by M. Pohek. This is filed in the M. Pohek folder above.]

Box 5 Schultz, W. To Otto Rank. Psych. Beitrage., [n.p.], 11 November 1919, 1 page t.l.s.

[O.R.A. gift 1984]

Box 5 Schuetterheim, W.F. Letter to Otto Rank. Homer., [n.p.], 9 January 1923, 4 page a.l.s.

[ORA gift 1984]

Box 5 Taft Warner, Lorraine To Jessie Taft, [n.p.], February 1935, 6 page a.l.s.

Box 5 Taussig, Beatrice To George Wilbur, [n.p.], 19 December 1934, 3 page t.l.

[ORA gift 1984]

Box 5 Taussig, Beatrice To Otto Rank, [n.p.], 7 May 1935, 1 page t.l.s.

Box 5 Teller, V. To Otto Rank, [n.p.], 9 March 1923, 2 page a.l.s.

Box 5 Tridon, &re To [?], New York, [n.d.], 1 page t.l. (carbon)

Box 5 Tsecker, Annalia To Otto Rank, [n.p.], [n.d.], 2 page a.l.s.

Box 5 Tubjanski, M. To Otto Rank, Leningrad, 8 & 10 March 1925, 2 a.l.s.

Box 5 Varendock, J. To Otto Rank, [n.p.], 6 January 1924, 1 page t.l.s.

Box 5 Vorwahl, Henner To Otto Rank, Elze, Germany, 12 April 1924, 1 a.p.c.s.

Box 5 Vorwahl, Henner To Otto Rank, [n.p.], [n.d.], 2 page a.l.s.

Box 5 Wessel, Rosa To Otto Rank, [n.p.], 14 June 19[?], 4 page a.l.s.

Box 5 Wilbur, George To Otto Rank, South Dennis, MA, 12 July 1932, 2 page t.l.s.

Box 5 Wilbur, George To Beatrice Taussig, [n.p.], 5 May 1935, 1 page t.l.s.

[ORA gift 1984]