THE LIBRARY A he early weeks of 1973 were brightened for the staff of the Library by the honors—the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize—that were accorded George Washington: Anguish and Farewell, by James Thomas Flexner. Mr, Flexner spent many hours in our Library preparing this distinguished volume, and its success afforded great satisfaction to us all. In December a book dear to our hearts came to us from another cherished friend, A. Hyatt Mayor. His Popular Prints of the Americas includes many illustrations from the Bella C. Landauer Collection, and we are puffed up with pride to have contributed to this handsome volume. The year began and ended with these two works of lasting importance, and during the months in between we were encouraged by the appearance of eighty-three other publications with acknowledgments to the Society's collections and its staff. It would be a great pleasure if it were possible to mention each one of these works, for they proclaim more effectively than anything else the importance of the Library in the world of serious historical scholarship. From their publication we derive deserved satisfaction along with genuine encouragement to continue and to improve. We have every intention of continuing the outstanding reference service that users of our collections often comment upon and write about in terms of complete approbation. Miss Sue Gillies and her staff provide a quality of reference assistance that is in the best tradition of the Society. It is an excellence of service that advanced scholars need, deserve, and appreciate. They find it not only in our main reference department, but equally in our Manuscript and Print departments. We also plan to continue exhibitions in the Library Gallery, which often achieves a popularity far beyond our expectations. At the beginning of the year, we had a small show on the colonial and Revolutionary periods of our history that was primarily a teaching exhibition to assist the Education Department in its effort to make our history meaningful to classes of school children. In the spring, Mr. Wilson Duprey and Mr. Roger Mohovich installed a similar exhibition on the Civil War that was noticed in the press and on television. Gifts to the Society In]