Stokes, Adrian Durham (1902-1972)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 GC/126
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full 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
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

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 & 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

Finding aids:

Wellcome Library online catalogue.

Archival Information

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

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

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