I would like to add a personal footnote to your discussion of the role Smith Ely Jelliffe played in the history of the New York Psychoanalytic Society.

After Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany, the Berlin analysts began to flee and I went to live in Copenhagen. One day in 1937 I got a postcard from a Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe in the U.S.A. He wrote that he had read my doctoral dissertation about the difference between Charcot's theory of hysteria and the Breuer-Freud theory and liked it. I had no idea who Jelliffe was, but, of course, I was pleased to know that an American psychiatrist had read and liked my dissertation.

After Hitler invaded Denmark, I realized that I would have to leave, and I wrote to Jelliffe asking him for an affidavit. He sent me one immediately. He was a generous, good man, Smith Ely Jelliffe was.

George Gero M.D.