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My reason for reviewing together these two volumes of this established and celebrated Annual, is that a single inescapable mortal human fact relates one to the other. Volume 34 opens with the sections: 'The Development of Blind Children', Foreword by Miss Freud, and the lead article by Dorothy Burlingham, the initiator of research in this area and its most consistent and creative
persuant until her death. This was to be her last publication to appear in her lifetime. Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham died in London in 1979.1 Volume 35 opens with our Editorial Tribute:
Dorothy Burlingham's interest and influence were an abiding intellectual and personal presence in the history of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. Though she was never a formal member of the Editorial Board, her pioneering contributions and her imagination, curiosity, concern for children's well-being, and scientific standards in child psychoanalysis provided a generous, responsive resource for the Editors, which we now formally acknowledge. Our loss, personally and scientifically, is great. We shall miss her quiet steadfastness and her patient considerateness (Volume 35, my italics).
This is followed by an obituary from Miss Anna Freud, closest friend of Dorothy Burlingham for some fifty years, sharing her interests, researches, and the happiness as well as the tragedies that befell her in these years. A unique friendship in the history of psychoanalysis. If it enlivened the lives of the two friends, it also nourished in a silent but most effective and fecund way the growth of psychoanalysis in various directions, and our knowledge of what goes into the maturation of human infants into children and adults, with all the handicaps as well as the givens of nature and biology, plus familial and social circumstances. But there is much more to it than that. It