Obituary Notices

John David Barrett, JR, died suddenly at his home in Greenwich, Connecticut, on 28 June, 1981 at the age of 77. He had been president of the Bollingen Foundation, in New York, during its most active years, when he guided its notable services to Jungian psychology. It was on his initiative that, from 1955 to 1960, the Foundation contributed funds to the Society of Analytical Psychology in London for the support of the Journal of Analytical Psychology. In the inaugural issue in 1955, Michael Fordham, the founding editor, observed that the Foundation's donation ‘will relieve us of much financial anxiety over the first years, and enable us to maintain the integrity of our policy’. Barrett was interested also in the publication of Jung's letters, and accordingly for several years the Foundation supported the editorial work on the letters by Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffé.

John Barrett was born on 8 December, 1903, in New York City, where he was brought up. After his graduation from Yale University (Ph.B., 1926) he lived mostly abroad and travelled widely. He was active in the world of art dealers and collectors, and during World War II he worked in war relief. In 1945 he became an editor of Bollingen Series, which had been established by Barrett's friends, Paul and Mary Mellon.

Mary Conover Mellon, with her husband's collaboration, had been inspired to launch a publishing venture featuring Jung's writings as early as 1938, when the Mellons first went to Zurich for analysis and study. Though Mary Mellon broached her plan to Jung in 1940, wartime circumstances slowed its realisation, and the first publications in Bollingen Series, established in 1943 under the aegis of the Old Dominion Foundation (another Mellon trust), were in the spheres of ethnology, art, and literature. In late 1945 the Series became the nucleus of the Bollingen Foundation under Mrs Mellon's presidency. During the same year, Jung's London publishers, Routledge & Kegan Paul, had separately begun to contem