Smith Ely Jelliffe died on September 25, 1945. Several papers in tribute to him are contained in this memorial issue of the journal he edited for many years.

Oberndorf briefly discusses Jelliffe's literary and historical contributions. He divides them into: (a) accounts of observations in medicine and psychiatry made on travels abroad; (b) papers of historical research, and (c) psychiatric interpretations of literature. All his writings, scientific as well as literary, showed a degree of articulate erudition achieved only by a genuine scholar.