Carl Jung to Katy Cabot: July 17, 1930
My dear Mrs. Cabot, 17 July 1930
Thank you very much for your kindness!
We shall spend one or two nights with Frau Froebe.
I hope to be able to see you and your family while we are in Ascona.
Carl Jung to Katy Cabot March 31, 1932
This year it will be a short Eranos meeting.
Thank you also for your picture postcard of Hospenthal.
Please give my love to Janey, and my best regards to Major de Trafford!
Yours cordially,
C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Jung My Mother and I, Page 290
Carl Jung to Katy Cabot March 31, 1932
I tried my best to fit you in somehow. 31March1932
But there has been such a flood of consultations that together with an abominable cold, I was quite unable to live up to all my obligations. I am extremely sorry that I could not squeeze you in any more. If there should be any particular trouble I wish you would whisper into my ear at the occasion of the April Fool’s dinner. Thousand regrets. ~Carl Jung, Jung My Mother and I, Page 57
C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Jung My Mother and I, Page 53
Carl Jung to Katy Cabot April 6, 1932
Dear Mrs. Cabot, April 6th, 1932
Thank you for your kind letter.
This is just to confirm that I am looking forward to your appointments in May.
I am fully conscious of the necessity to catch the lump this time.
Did you ever suspect that this lump has something to do with the lack of what you call Weltanschauung? Mr. x told me marvels about your cook:, not to speak of the amiable hostess. His tale was so good that I began to envy Mr. x quite seriously. With best wishes, I remain yours sincerely, C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Jung My Mother and I, Pages 57-58
Carl Jung to Katy Cabot October 12, 1932
It is true that I shall have my seminar already on October 12th.
I enjoyed your picture postcards very much. It is exceedingly nice of you that you gave me a sign of your existence from time to time.
Hoping to see you soon, I am,
Yours sincerely, C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Jung My Mother and I, Page 53
Carl Jung to Katy Cabot June 24, 1933
Dear Mrs. Cabot, June 24, 1933
Thank you for your nice letter and all the good news.
Of course it is so much more important that you get right with your child than to spend your time in Zurich analysing.
There was something lacking, I must admit. I chiefly realized it at the Wednesday-lunch in the Pfauen [Restaurant].
It is too bad that I’m not at home on July 27th, as I shall be up in Bollingen already.
If you did go up to St. Moritz with the diligence, that is, the mail coach, you would pass my place and we could shake hands, but I assume you are living in the twentieth century and you are flying up to the Engadine by means of electricity.
I don’t think the Zurich atmosphere is particularly peaceful.
It is true, however, that all my patients are of different opinion in this respect.
I sincerely hope that you have outlived your parents’ historical atmosphere and that your health has not been injured by such a predicament.
I am just leaving for Berlin, where I have to give a seminar.
My best wishes and au revoir.
Cordially yours,
C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Jung My Mother and I, Page 63
Carl Jung to Katy Cabot October 13, 1933
Dear Mrs. Cabot, October 13, 1933
I shall be very busy in the beginning of November.
In the second half of November it would be better because up to then one or the other of my cases will leave.
There is moreover a new complication in my life and that is that I have to deliver a course of lectures at the technical university, which of course takes up a good deal of my time.
I have seen the “Flying Draper” too.
He was as flimsy and unsubstantial as ever. Of course perfectly delightful as far as it goes.
Hoping you had a splendid summer and a correspondingly beautiful autumn,
I remain,
Yours sincerely,
C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Jung My Mother and I, Pages 64-65
Carl Jung to Katy Cabot October 11, 1934
Kusnacht-Zurich
Seestrasse 228
October 11, 1934
Mrs. C. R. Cabot
c/o Guaranty Trust Co.
50 Pall Mall
London S.W. 1
Dear Mrs. Cabot,
Thank you for your letter. I am very busy this autumn, but I will
do my best to fit you in somehow.
With best wishes,
Sincerely yours,
C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Jung My Mother and I Page 84
Carl Jung to Katy Cabot November 27, 1934
Dear Mrs. Cabot, November 27th 1934
I’m sorry but you were not forgotten.
I only was unable to find time for you because a great deal of my time was taken by an expert’s testimony for the court in a murder case.
The fact that you are free in the afternoon only makes things still more difficult.
The first possibility therefore is Tuesday next (4 Dec.) at 4 p.m.
Sincerely yours,
C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Jung My Mother and I, Page 84
Carl Jung to Katy Cabot July 10, 1935
Kusnacht-Zurich
Seestrasse 228
July 10th, 1935
Mrs. C. Cabot
Waldhaus Dolder
Zurich
Dear Mrs. Cabot,
Miss Hannah has indeed asked me concerning the picture you propose to her. I told her that I have no objection against that plan.
I even think it is a very good idea because it is a nice vista down the path.
Hoping you will have a nice summer, I remain,
Yours sincerely,
C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Jung My Mother and I, Page 104
Carl Jung to Katy Cabot September 16, 1935
Mrs. C. Cabot September 16, 1935
c/o Guaranty Trust Co.
4 Place de la Concorde
Paris
Dear Mrs. Cabot,
Thank you for your kind letter. I take notice of your intention to come back at the beginning of November, and I hope I will be able to do something for you, which, however, is a mere hope for the time being.
Well, I don’t wonder that you had some intimations from your uncanny friend. One could suspect as much.
Yes, the situation of the world is terrible. I only hope that the fire can be isolated.
My best wishes,
Cordially yours,
C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Jung My Mother and I, Page 105
Carl Jung to Katy Cabot: February 8, 1937
Dear Mrs. Cabot, February 8, 1937
Thank you very much for your nice letter. I’m indeed sorry to hear that you suffer again from flu. Just lately I had a touch of it too.
It is too bad that you can’t come to the carnival evening. I remember delightful sights of former days.
Hoping that you are not too long chained to your bed.
I remain yours cordially,
C.G. Jung
P.S. There is no objection against the “Onkel.” ~Carl Jung, Jung My Mother and I, Page 140
Katy Cabot to Carl Jung April 28, 1940
Dear Onkel, April 28, 1940
As I was unfortunate to miss my last appointment, due to the Grippe [cold], I am writing to ask if I could have it now, as soon as you begin to see people again [after Easter]?
I am leaving Zurich for a change of air on May 10th, and hope very much that you will see me once, before I go on this holiday to Italy.
I enclose this list of a certain number of works concerning St. Ignatius of Loyola, which came from a Jesuit source.
These [Easter] holidays were spent by me, getting rid of a second flu, which I got after my first “Cold”: it’s been most depressing, and seeing you would be a great help.
Affectionately yours,
Catharine Cabot ~Carl Jung, Jung My Mother and I, Page 270-271
Carl Jung to Katy Cabot October 16, 1940
Kusnacht- Zurich
Seestrasse 228
October 16th, 1940
My dear Mrs. Cabot,
Please let me know whether you agree that my son-in-law, Mr. Walther Niehus, take over the job of buying your house.
I had a talk with him, and he had a talk with your lawyer and, being an architect, he agrees that he could do it much more easily than, for instance, myself, who could get into trouble with taxes.
The business could be settled at once, if you let me or your lawyer know that you agree with the choice of my son-in-law.
As an homme de confiance, he is O.K.
Sincerely yours,
C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Jung My Mother and I, Page 291
Carl Jung to Katy Cabot November 16, 1940
Kusnacht-Zurich
Seestrasse 228
16 X 1940
My dear Mrs. Cabot,
It is chiefly on account of my somewhat one-sided concentration upon my work, that I altogether forgot to tell you how sorry I was when I heard of the death of your father.
I thought of it several times, and then something happened and it took my thoughts elsewhere. It is therefore with many apologies that I send you my belated expression of sympathy.
The death of one’s parent is a painful experience under all circumstances, because it is a cruel amputation of one of the roots of our human existence.
It means an increased isolation and an uneasy feeling of being left behind.
In order to lose no time, I have sent my answer to your request as quickly as possible.
I think the arrangement I proposed to you is satisfactory in every way.
My best greetings to your daughter!
Hoping for a speedy end of the War,
I remain yours,
Cordially,
C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Jung My Mother and I, Pages 291-292
Katy Cabot to Carl Jung December 8, 1940
Dear Onkel: –
When I heard that on December 21st there would be a Christmas dinner at the Club, I asked Toni if she thought it would be a good idea to get a few donations from certain members ( who could afford it) and have, during the evening, a lotterie for the soldiers.
As Toni and Mrs. Pierz were very busy with other important matters for that evening, I decided to call up Mrs. Baumann and ask her to help me secure donations.
She, being very tactful, managed to get them from certain members, such as donations of pictures from Miss Hannah and Miss Foote.
A quick horoscope from Dr. Liliane Frey, a gym lesson from Frau Stutz etc.
She suggested that I write and ask you for a donation of an analytical “hour” as the big prize of the evening and one on which we would probably realize handsomely for the soldiers’ fund.
You are the only person from whom we are asking an analytical “hour.”
From the others, it’s small gifts and a gym lesson, graphology and a quick horoscope.
We are having only ten donations in all, including your “hour” – if you will be so kind as to give it.
Would you ask Miss Schmid1 to call me up, or I will call her up on Tuesday and ask for your answer.
With kindest regards,
Yours affectionately,
Catharine Cabot ~Katy Cabot, Jung My Mother and I, Page 312
Carl Jung to Katy Cabot October 13, 1941
October 13th, 1941
Dear Mrs. Cabot,
Thank you very much for your kind letter and all the news it contains.
It is true, I have been badly overworked this summer and I have to be very careful now.
I feel all right again, but I had to reduce my work considerably. There is, however, still enough of it.
I’m glad that you have a favourable judgement about Mr. *’s new marriage.
I was afraid it would be another nonsense.
But all competent people agree, that she is much better than the general expectation.
Please give my best regards to Janie and Major de Trafford.
Cordially yours,
C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Jung My Mother and I, Page 385
Carl Jung to Katy Cabot August 19, 1942
Kusnacht-Zurich
Seestrasse 228
19th of August 1942
My dear Mrs. Cabot,
It is very kind of you to call my attention to Major de Trafford’s bicycle.
It is very tempting, I admit – but after some consideration, I reached the conclusion that I am too old for a new bicycle.
I can really do without one.
Hoping you have fine weather down in Ascona.
I remain yours
cordially,
C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Jung My Mother and I, Page 415-416
Katy Cabot to Carl Jung November 23, 1942
Casa Eranos
Ascona-Moscia
Tessin
November 23rd, 1942
Dear Onkel,
Due to the fact that the Zurich hotels are not being heated, I decided to stay on here, until December 1st.
I come to the Waldhaus on December 1st (Tuesday) until the 6th, when I go to visit my cousin1 in Bern, who is at the American Legation there and wants to have some parties, so that Janey can meet some of the single men who are now there.
My cousin seems to feel it would be too bad if Janey married a “foreigner”!!!?
Since de Trafford died, I have been through so much that I can hardly believe, today, that I am the same person, whom he knew all those years.
But whatever has happened to me, this I can say, that I am no more inhuman or unnatural, nor the “bad sausage done up as a pheasant” – perhaps a “bad sausage,” but without the “pheasant” camouflage, nor do I anymore go to infinite pains to make a bad impression.
I may make it, but only being as I am, not by trying to “impress.”
I just tell you these things because they are a load off my back and it is you who helped me get out of all that nonsense.
I am getting up a small book ( on the order of what Toni did for her mother) in memory of de Trafford. Barbara Hannah (my old vendetta) is translating the Grabrede [the speech given at the grave] and I wanted to ask you, if you would write something for it – if you will do so, I will then ask a few other people, who knew and admired de Trafford, to do so it would mean so much to me if you would write something about him, for you knew him better than anyone, besides myself and I feel so strongly, that his family should have an appreciation of his splendid and unique personality.
I know you have so much to do, but for you, it would not be difficult, as you are so intelligent.
May I also ask for an appointment with you between the 1st and 6th December?
I will be in the Waldhaus on December 1st. I do hope you and Mrs. Jung are very well. Here, the weather is marvelous.
With kind regards,
Yours affectionately,
Catherine Cabot ~Katy Cabot, Jung My Mother and I, Page 417-418
Carl Jung to Katy Cabot undated 1942
Mrs. Cabot
Casa Eranos
Ascona-Moscia
Dear Mrs. Cabot,
Catharine Cabot
Unfortunately I shall be away in the second part of that week from December 1st to 6th.
I have to deliver a lecture in Basel and have to leave on Thursday.
The only time I have would be Tuesday at 12 o’clock, but I assume that you wouldn’t be here by that time.
I will try to write something about Major de Trafford hoping that it is not urgent, since I am unusually busy these days.
I also think like your cousin that it wouldn’t be suitable for Janey to marry that dolce far niente [sweet, ‘do-nothing’] person, who is only good to play with but for the seriousness of marriage hardly suitable.
Yours cordially,
C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Jung My Mother and I, Page 419
Katy Cabot to Carl Jung May 24, 1943
Casa Eranos
Ascona-Moscia
Tessin
May 24th, 1943
Dear Onkel,
I am very glad indeed that I am going to see you on Monday June 7th at ten o’clock in the morning.
This is to tell you and Mrs. Jung that Janey has just become engaged to a British Captain Reid, assistant Military Attache at the British Legation in Bern.
I think he is Irish, but a very pleasant fellow and good fun. Whether it goes further, I really can’t say?
A certain amount of character and determination he must have, as he has been recently decorated by the British government for his organization in helping many British to escape from Germany.
He himself escaped.
As I spent all last year in trying to prevent Janey from marrying a good-for-nothing Tessiner, I really can’t go on trying to save her from herself and though I should think that later she might get tired of this present fellow (but as you said, she will sink her teeth in many things) I feel definitely that it is best to let this go through, as they are both very definite that they wish to be married.
I am giving a large formal cocktail party for all the Ministers and important people, diplomatically speaking, in Bern on June 3th also young people etc …. to announce the engagement officially.
I hope very much that you and Mrs. Jung will be able to come and I am sending you an invitation.
At all events, if you can’t come to this, Janey and I both hope that you will come to the wedding, which is to take place, sometime during the second half of August.
Well, did you ever? I never thought I’d be doing this so soon.
Please give my kindest regards to Mrs. Jung and tell her that I am so looking forward to seeing her at eleven o’clock on Monday June 7th.
With love, affectionately yours,
Catharine Cabot ~Katy Cabot, Jung My Mother and I, Page 435-436
Carl Jung to Katy Cabot May 27, 1943
May 27th, 1943
Mrs. C. Cabot
Casa Eranos
Ascona-Moscia
My dear Mrs. Cabot,
This is great news! My most cordial congratulations to yourself as well as to Janey.
I hope that this start will turn out to be the right one. One only can be hopeful.
It is very nice of you to invite Mrs. Jung and myself to your cocktail-Party in Bern on June 9th. Unfortunately I have so much work here that I cannot possibly leave.
But I will ask Mrs. Jung how she feels about the wedding, which I personally should like to attend. But we first must calculate how it fits into our [ vacation] program. At all events I’m very grateful for your kind invitation.
I suppose that you have already many guests and if you should feel in any way that there are too many, we shouldn’t mind to be left out of the royal feast, since we would be complete outsiders in that show, so to say mere curiosities.
Well, we still can talk it over when I see you next.
With best regards to Janey,
Yours cordially,
C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Jung My Mother and I, Page 437
Carl Jung to Janey Cabot June 7, 1943
Kusnacht-Zurich
Seestrasse 228
June 7th, 1943
Dear Janey,
The surprising news of your engagement have reached my attentive ears and I hasten to deposit my feelings in the form of flowers at your feet. Mrs. Jung joins me in muttering our most sincere congratulations and magic wishes for the permanency of happiness, good luck and general welfare.
Yours affectionately,
C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Jung My Mother and I, Page 438
Katy Cabot to Carl Jung November 27, 1945
La Pergola
Ascona
Tessin
November 27th, 1945
Dear Onkel,
I shall be in Zurich again on December 16th for a week.
May I have one appointment with you, that week if possible on Tuesday the 13th or Thursday the 20th.
Certain rather important things are shaping themselves in my life and I should so like to talk over everything with you, for you have brought me so far, that in the last analysis, it is only you and your opinion which really count in decisive moments.
Perhaps Miss Schmid would send me a card, with the appointment, if it is possible.
With my best love, ~Katy Cabot, Jung My Mother and I, Page 486
Carl Jung to Katy Cabot September 1, 1947
Bollingen. Sept. 1st, 1947
Dear Mrs. Cabot,
I just heard that your mother died – it is good when old people
can die. Only for the surviving there is cause for pain and lamentations
as it is they who experience a loss. For the dead it must be, if
anything, a gain after the hardships and worries of earthly life.
For you it is the loss of a mother and the realization that there
is nobody ahead of you anymore. This letter may convey all my
feelings of sympathy.
Yours affectionately,
C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Jung My Mother and I, Page 541
Carl Jung to Katy Cabot March 31, 1953
Mrs. Catharine Cabot March 31, 1953
Villa Aloha
San Remo
Dear Mrs. Cabot,
Thank you very much for your kind letter of sympathy, it was good of you to write.
Toni’s death has been a terrible shock to me and to us all, especially as it was so sudden and entirely unexpected.
There are many people who will feel as you do over her loss which is quite irreparable in many ways.
It is very kind of you to ask me to come down to you for a rest after Easter, but I have not yet been away from the house since my long illness began last autumn, and now this fresh shock has set me back again.
I do not think therefore that it is possible for me to accept, though I very much appreciate the invitation and your kind thought.
Cordially yours,
C.G. Jung C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Jung My Mother and I, Page 567
Katy Cabot to Carl Jung October 30, 1953
Villa Aloha
San Remo
October 30th, 1953
Dear Onkel:
Princess Hohenzollern is now here for a visit and we have naturally been thinking a great deal of you and those wonderful ‘old days’ in Zurich, when we saw you so often and lived under the rays of your wonderful Geist!
Just yesterday, we were talking of those Pfauen lunches with you and the fun and wit at those reunions, which flowed so easily and gaily, like the Pfauen wine!
It was rare privilege to be so closely associated with you, for so many years, unforgettable years, which leave memories never to be erased.
It is really awful to be cut off from you, but I realize that you were right to send one out into the world to ‘live.’
However one misses you always, that can’t be helped and I suppose will go on as long as one lives.
The main thing is to be worthy of you and your teachings, for you certainly left no stone unturned to put one ‘ship-shape’ back into the world again.
These and many other thoughts have come into our conversations, during the quiet, peaceful days which Princess Hohenzollern is spending here in the sun and it has somehow given one a certain sense of nostalgia and a desire to recapture the ‘spirit’ of those days.
The ‘modern’ Zurich is so different maybe more ‘efficient’ but to older people like myself, far less human.
But then, you are so far in the background and it was YOU who were everything.
I must now leave some space for the Princess and so will close with my most affectionate regards to you and Mrs. Jung.
Catharine Cabot ~Katy Cabot, Jung My Mother and I, Page 569-670
Carl Jung to Katy Cabot November 6, 1953
Prof. Dr. C.G. Jung
Kusnacht-Zurich
Seestrasse 228
Nov. 6, 1953
Mrs. Catharine Cabot
Villa Aloha
San Remo
My dear Niece Catharine,
I have received you letter with much pleasure, and I only regret that I cannot join your party and fa ire revivre les temps passes [relive past times].
At all events, it was very nice of you to remember our joyous repasts and the good wine we had together.
It was an additional pleasure to have the letter of our dear Princess at the same time.
Will you give her my best regards and tell her that the letter to you must do for both since dictating letters takes time, and my time is short!
Please raise your glass to my health. I recently discovered a 45 year old Bordeaux in my cellar,
and this evening I shall drink a glass in memory of an old vanishing world.
My best wishes to you both,
Yours fidelissimo,
Uncle
C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Jung My Mother and I, Page 570
Carl Jung to Katy Cabot June 25, 1954
Prof. Dr. C.G. Jung
Kusnacht-Zurich
Seestrasse 228
June 25, 1954
Mrs. K. Cabot
Casa Abbondio
Ascona
Dear Katy,
This is really a sad stroke of fate for you to be laid up with a chill.
I try to get away from here in the course of next week to Bollingen to have a much needed rest.
I have been perfectly besieged in the last weeks; work is always heaping up like mad before vacations. I only return for my birthday party on July 25, otherwise I am invisible if the Lord permits it.
Wishing you a speedy recovery
I remain,
Yours Cordially,
C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Jung My Mother and I, Page 583-584
Carl Jung to Katie Cabot October 14, 1954
Prof. Dr. C.G. Jung
Kusnacht-Zurich
Seestrasse 228
Oct. 14, 1954
Mrs. Katie Cabot
Casa Abbondio
Ascona
My dear Niece Katie,
This is indeed a momentous time approaching the 60th birthday.
I should like very much to be near you at the celebration, but unfortunately I am detained in Kusnacht by my work, and my wife being in hospital is a further obligation.
It will be now the 6th week that she is in Hirslanden on account of a discus trouble in the vertebra, but she is now much better and expecting to leave in a week’s time or so.
Please accept my best wishes and congratulations.
I hope you will be able to enjoy your birthday feast to which I shall be a silent and invisible attendant.
If you come to Zurich, let me know about a week ahead so that I can arrange to see you; I am as usually much too busy and time is scarce.
My best regards to Janie.
Yours cordially,
C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Jung My Mother and I, Page 584
Katy Cabot to Carl Jung October 25, 1954
October 25th, 1954
Casa Abbondio
Ascona
Tessin
Dear Onkel:
Your birthday wishes meant a lot to me, thank you so much for sending them.
Janey and her husband came out from England and have just gone back. It was all very nice, this celebration.
I was so sorry to hear of Mrs. Jung’s illness, as I had heard nothing whatsoever about it. I have written her.
shall be coming to Zurich on November 1st.
Is there any chance of seeing you on the afternoon of the 1st or on the 1st 2nd, 3rd 4th?
I trust you are well & send my most affectionate greetings.
Catharine Cabot
Janey sends you much love. ~Katy Cabot, Jung My Mother and I, Page 585
Katy Cabot to Carl Jung December 29, 1956
December 29th, 1956
Mrs. Katy Cabot
Villa Aloha
San Remo
My dear Katy,
thank you for your nice Christmas-card.
It is awfully good of you to invite me to your enviable San Remo-place with all its delights.
Unfortunately I cannot avail myself of your kindness since I am afraid of the long trip and the inevitable effort involved.
I have to live quietly and more or less withdrawn from the adventures of the world.
Though my state of health gives me no cause for serious complaints.
Many thanks for your kind and generous intentions.
Hoping you will have a good New Year, I remain,
Yours cordially
C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Jung My Mother and I, Page 602
Carl Jung to Katy Cabot December 5, 1958
Prof. Dr. C.G. Jung
Kusnacht-Zurich
Seestrasse 228
5 December 1958
Dear Mrs. Cabot,
thank you ever so much for the beautiful flowers you have sent me from the Riviera. It was a miraculous contrast to the cold and misty week we are passing through.
This is just to send you my greeting and my best Christmas wishes and also for the New Year, towards which we are just rolling on.
I am sorry to hear that you undergo a severe cure. I hope it is nothing really serious.
It was nice to hear of you again.
Cordially,
C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Jung My Mother and I, Page 607
Carl Jung to Katy Cabot July 1960
Sorry to have missed you at the feast! These celebrations have
been exhausting. I am just coming up for air. No visitors for me for
now and for a long time!
It has almost wrecked me.
I had no idea, you were in Zurich and for such a regrettable
purpose. I am glad to hear that Dr. Haemerli has read me twice.
My best wishes and thanks. Yours cordially,
C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Jung My Mother and I, Page 607
