The Smith Ely Jelliffe Collection of Medical Offprints (circa 1890-1935)

[New York], 1935. Hardcover. Good. A large collection of medical offprints and monographs, including bound-in and laid-in correspondence and notes, assembled by the distinguished American physician, author, and editor Smith Ely Jelliffe. A practicing neurologist, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst based in New York City, Jelliffe was a pioneer in the emerging field of psychosomatic medicine, and is best known today as the father of psychoanalysis in America. A prolific author and translator, he edited the influential *Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease* from 1902 to 1944, co-founded the non-orthodox *Psychoanalytic Review* in 1913, and co-founded and edited the *Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series*. He maintained a close personal and professional correspondence with both Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung after their historic break, and several other leading figures throughout the world in both Freudian and Jungian circles. Also a book collector, Jelliffe built up an important private library of books, journals, and offprints which he used for his research and the many translations of the serials that he owned and edited.

The collection consists of 380 bound volumes containing several thousand offprints and monographs of European and American works in neuroscience, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis, many of which are inscribed to Jelliffe. Also included throughout the volumes are folded journal articles and shorter articles and clippings mounted on bound-in sheets. The bulk of the papers date from the first quarter of the 20th Century.

The collection includes a 1932 printed letter signed by Freud in ink, together with several works by Freud, including some with Jelliffe's ownership name. Among the presentation copies are several inscribed by some of Jelliffe's best known colleagues, including Carl Jung, Melanie Klein, Heinz Hartmann, and Otto Rank; and several other leading international figures such as John H. Northrop (co-winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry), the Austrian neurologist Otto Marburg, American neurologist Bernard Sachs, and the American cultural anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber. Also included are several papers with warm Inscriptions of gratitude from prominent Brazilian colleagues mentored by Jelliffe: Arthur Ramos (an important cultural historian of Brazil's Negro culture), Juliano Moreira and Durval Marcondes (founders of scientific psychiatry and psychoanalysis in Brazil). Other papers that are further illustrative of the diversity and scope of the collection include *Traum und Existenz* Inscribed by the distinguished Swiss psychiatrist and phenomenologist Ludwig Binswanger, and an Inscribed copy of Alfred Korzybski's influential treatise *Time-Binding*.

Most of the papers are in German and English, followed by others in French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, and several other languages. Among the German papers are many important papers on psychoanalysis, homosexuality, transvestitism, and transsexualism, including at least eight papers (one inscribed) by the great German-Jewish psychiatrist Arthur Kronfeld (who studied under Magnus Hirschfeld at the Institute of Sexual Research in Berlin), and several early papers by Alfred Adler, Wilhelm Reich, Felix Boehm, and Carl Müller-Braunschweig. Also bound into a few selected volumes are original letters and copies of Jelliffe's accompanying correspondence. These include original letters from two important American physical chemists: Wilder D. Bancroft and Joseph E. Cohn (who was responsible for a blood fractionation project that saved thousands of lives in World War Two).

All together the collection roughly divides into the principal subject areas of Jelliffe's professional career: Neurology and the Nervous System; Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry; Psychoanalysis; Dementia, Paranoia, Psychoses, Schizophrenia; Endocrinology, etc., along with several related sub-disciplines. Nearly all have Jelliffe's typed or manuscript table of contents and author indexes laid-down onto the front and back endleaves, along with his illustrated bookplate either laid-in or lightly glued on the front pastedowns.

Most volumes are thick quartos and octavos, as well as a few large quartos, bound in dark green cloth over boards with gilt spines and maroon spine labels. Most of the offprints and monographs are in printed wraps, and are signed by Jelliffe on the front wrap or title page. Included are five volumes containing Jelliffe's works and translations bound in half-leather and marbled paper over boards. The five volumes bound in half-leather have detached boards and spine backs, about 25 other volumes in cloth have split or partially split hinges with tears to the cloth spine backs, else overall most volumes are good or better with scattered scuffing and chipping to the board edges.

This collection from Jelliffe's private library illuminates both his professional career in America and the origins and dramatic rise of psychoanalysis and psychosomatic medicine in Germany, the United States, and throughout the world before the Second World War. A list of notable works and letters (ALS and TLS) is available upon request.