REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR One of the three most corrupt British-American colonial administrators was Sir William Cosby (c. 1695-1735/6), the last combined governor of what is now New York and New Jersey. His dishonesty in office might have been forgotten but the evil he did lived after him in the records of the colonial courts he tried to corrupt and especially in the report of his trial of an obscure colonial printer who had dared to publish the truth about him in his newspaper. And thus the triumphant defense of John Peter Zenger established the principle of the freedom of the press and, incidentally, perpetuated the unsavory memory of the corrupt governor. But, until now, we could only guess at William Cosby's appearance, for there was no portrait of him known in England or America. This important gap in the series of portraits of our colonial governors has now been filled by the acquisition of a charming miniature of the pompous old rascal as recorded by Christian F. Zincke (1684-1767), royal painter to the Court of George II. The miniature, which is in its original gold frame, with the worn but legible inscription on the back giving the names of artist and subject, came to us indirectly from the collection of William Randolph Hearst, the greatest accumulator of our time. Other interesting miniatures added to our extensive collection during the year include the anonymous portraits of four other New Yorkers well known in their day: Archibald Gracie and Jonathan Hunt, Mrs. Robert Lenox and her kinswoman Mrs. Henry Rutgers Remsen, the latter two the gifts of Mrs. Edward L. Center and Mr. R. McAllister Lloyd. We were also happy to secure miniatures of Thomas Wright Bacot, appointed by Washington as the first postmaster of Charleston, South Carolina, painted by his friend Charles Fraser; and one of State Representative and Senator Richard Sears of Chatham, Massachusetts, by J. Purrington (Purinton).