he failed in the oral defense due to a memory lapse. This failure put Kelly into a period of grief, during which time he apparently had a spiritual awakening. In 1938, Kelly went to Germany to encourage Friends living under Hitler's regime. Kelly received word on January 17, 1941, that Harper and Brothers was willing to meet with him to discuss the publication of a devotional book. He died of a heart attack in Haverford, Pennsylvania later that same day. Three months later Kelly's colleague, Douglas V. Steere, submitted five of Kelly's devotional essays to the publisher along with a biographical sketch of Kelly. The book was published under the title A Testament of Devotion. Some of his other essays have been collected in a book entitled The Eternal Promise. A formal biography was written by his son, Richard Kelly in 1966, and published by Harper and Row. References Bibliography A Testament of Devotion. New York: Harper & Bros. 1941. The Eternal Promise Thomas Kelly, A Biography, Richard M. Kelly Harper and Row, NY, 1966, Library of Congress no. 66-11486 External links Article on Kelly in Spirituality Today 1893 births 1941 deaths 20th-century Christian mystics American Protestant missionaries American Quakers American religious writers American spiritual writers Protestant missionaries in England Protestant mystics Earlham College faculty Hartford Seminary alumni Harvard University alumni Haverford College alumni Quaker missionaries Wilmington College (Ohio)