Jung, C. G. C. G. Jung Letters. (Volume  I.) Selected and edited by Gerhard Adler in collaboration with Aniela Jaffé. Translated by R. F. C. Hull. London:  Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973. pp.  xxv + 596.

Letters, so it has been said, reveal the personality ‘sine fuco ac fallaciis’ (without powder or paint), as Cicero put it. Jung's letters are no exception: he emerges from these letters as a very human giant. The range of his correspondence was enormous; from all over the world friends, pupils, patients ask questions, want his advice, send him their dreams. The bulk of the letters are, however, to medical and psychological colleagues and other scientists, and, last but not least, to theologians and clergy of all denominations.

I never cease to be amazed at the manner in which Jung approached all the different types of people he wrote to, and the various ways in which he was able to communicate his thoughts in a form compatible to their particular situation. His comments and observations are always very much to the point without being offensive, and his insight into an individual's psychic situation is particularly apparent in his interpretation of dreams.…

(From JAP, 19, 1, January 1974)