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Stokes, Adrian Durham (1902-1972)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 GC/126

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Stokes, Adrian Durham (1902-1972)

Date(s): 1946-1958

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Stokes | Adrian Durham | 1902-1972 | painter and writer

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Adrian Durham Stokes (1902-1972), painter and writer, was analysed by Melanie Klein for seven years during the 1930s and again for a brief period 1946-1947. He applied her psychoanalytic ideas to aesthetic theory in a number of influential works published during the 1950s and 1960s.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Adrian Durham Stokes, painter and writer, comprising photocopies of letters from Melanie Klein, 1946-1958.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

As set out above in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner. Originals are held by the Tate Gallery Archive who should be consulted about permission

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Wellcome Library online catalogue.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

These letters were given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre (now the Wellcome Library Archives and Manuscripts Department) by Betty Joseph of the Melanie Kein Trust in 1991.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Melanie Klein's papers are in the Wellcome Library: PP/KLE. They do not, however, include any correspondence with Stokes.

Originals held among the Adrian Stokes papers in Tate Gallery Archive: TGA 8816. Papers comprise notebooks, correspondence and papers, 1916-72.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Entry compiled from Wellcome Library online catalogue by Barbara Ball.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: September 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Psychoanalysis | Clinical psychology | Psychiatry
Psychology

Personal names
Klein | Melanie | 1882-1960 | psychoanalyst
Stokes | Adrian Durham | 1902-1972 | painter and writer

Corporate names

Places