Mary Elizabeth Conover Mellon (1904-1946)

B-43

Mary E. Conover Mellon lived nearby with her second husband, the philanthropist Paul Mellon. Interested in the humanities and deeply influenced by the work of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, she was instrumental in establishing the Bollingen Series of books in 1943 to publish Jung's writings in English and to disseminate works on anthropology, art, literary criticism, philosophy, and comparative religion. She was the series’ first editor and the first president of the Bollingen Foundation, founded by the Mellons in 1945 to support the publishing enterprise and to issue fellowships, grants, and prizes in the humanities. Mary Mellon died in 1946 and is buried here at Trinity Episcopal Church.

Department of Historic Resources, 2018

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

William McGuire, Bollingen: An Adventure in Collecting the Past (Princeton University Press, 1982). Paul Mellon, with John Baskett, Reflections in a Silver Spoon: A Memoir (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1992). https://press.princeton.edu/series/title/bollingen-series%28general%29.html https://www.loc.gov/rr/rarebook/coll/031.html Hendersonville (NC) Times-News, 28 Nov. 1934. Washington Post, 3 Feb. 1935, 6 Dec. 1946. New York Times, 12 Oct. 1946. Mary Conover Mellon death certificate (1946). Steven Crandell, “The Woman Who Decided to Save the History of the Human Soul,” www.huffingtonpost.com