The following remembrances of Rhys Isaac came to Uncommon Sense in response to the editors’ invitation asking anyone who wished to write in memoriam to do so. We are pleased and proud to bring this amazing variety of pieces to you. That they range so broadly across the spectrum of human emotions and capture so many different aspects of Rhys’s life attest the affection and respect in which he was held by all who knew him or, in some cases, simply knew of him. He would, perhaps, be astonished by the breadth and depth of his impact on so many scholarly fields, by the ways in which people recollect and treasure their encounters with him, and by how grateful so many of us are for his generosity in sharing with us his keen mind, his indomitable spirit, and his kindest of hearts.

• Tom Chambers, Niagara University
• Susan Kern, College of William and Mary
• Rachel Herrmann, University of Texas at Austin
• Norman Fiering, John Carter Brown Library
• Michael A. McDonnell, University of Sydney
• Mechal Sobel, University of Haifa
• Loretta Valtz Mannucci, University of Milan
• Kris Lane, College of William and Mary
• Ken Lockridge, University of Montana
• John A. Grigg, University of Nebraska, Omaha
• Jane T. Merritt, Old Dominion University
• Jan Swearingen, Texas A&M University
• Greg Nobles, Georgia Tech
• Fredrika J. Teute, Omohundro Institute
• Ellen Adams, Saginaw Valley State University and Joshua Beatty, College of William and Mary
• Donna Merwick, Australian National University
• Cathy Hellier, for the Department of Training and Historical Research at The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
• Rebecca Wrenn, University of California, Riverside
• Alexander Haskell, University of California, Riverside
• Meredith Baker, Independent Scholar
• Inga Clendinnen, La Trobe University
• Katie Holmes, La Trobe University
• Angus R. McGillivery, La Trobe University
• Damir Mitric, La Trobe University
• Bernard Newsome, University of Melbourne
• John Salmond, La Trobe University

Uncommon Sense is also deeply grateful to our Australian friends and colleagues for sharing with us the tributes to Rhys presented at his memorial service, held on February 26, 2011, at La Trobe University. Mentor, scholar, teacher, friend—clearly all of us knew and treasured the same man wherever in the world our paths crossed his.