Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
The papers of Princess Marie Bonaparte, psychoanalyst and author, were bequeathed to the Library of Congress by Bonaparte through Anna Freud in 1964. Additional material was given by the Sigmund Freud Archives between 1983 and 1987 and by Jeffrey Masson in 1988. A photograph of Bonaparte was purchased in 1999.
Processing History
The papers of Marie Bonaparte were arranged and described by Grover Batts in 1964 and 1982. A revised finding aid was prepared when additional material received between 1983 and 1999 was incorporated into the collection in 2002 by Margaret McAleer with the assistance of Marjorie Torney. The finding aid was further revised when Bonaparte's notes on Sigmund Freud's letters to Wilhelm Fliess came open for research use in 2010. When restrictions on the Closed series ended in January 2020, the finding aid was revised and the container numbers for the Formerly Closed series were changed by Margaret McAleer and Carolyn Ray.
Online Content
Sigmund Freud correspondence in the papers of Princess Marie Bonaparte is available on the Library of Congress Web site at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000125 and onsite via Stacks at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/ms016046stacks.mss13169. To promote preservation of the originals, researchers are required to consult the online edition as available.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Princess Marie Bonaparte Papers, Sigmund Freud Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.