[ l8] ANNUAL REPORT States government. The private letter book kept during the 1860s by John Crosby Brown, at this time head of the Liverpool office, is filled with his English views on what he calls "the American quarrel!' A close relationship with Washington has continued into the twentieth century as indicated by the 1911 entries in the confidential diary of James Brown relating to Nicaragua and "dollar diplomacy!' The diary and daily logbook kept by Robert A. Lovett, a partner of Brown Brothers Harriman, while he was undersecretary of state in the Truman administration, are indicative of this relationship in more recent times. After March, manuscript acquisitions became less frequent but not less interesting. In May we received a group of seventy-one letters written between 1721 and 1836 by such distinguished New Yorkers as Stephen and William Bayard, Gerard W. and James Beekman, Egbert Benson, De Witt and George Clinton, John Cruger, Oliver De Lancey, James Duane, Hugh Gaine, John Kean, Charles and Rufus King, Morgan Lewis, Richard Morris, James Rivington, Nicholas Roosevelt, Philip Schuyler, Rip Van Dam, and John Watts. The Society has most of the papers of Horatio Gates and so welcomes as the gift of C. Otto v. Kienbusch a letter Gates wrote on November 14, 1801, to William Duane. Gates advises Duane to "Continue so long as you live to be the Friend of Civil Liberty, & The Rights of Man; then you will be Honoured by all good men in this world, & seated by The Immortal Franklyn in that which is to come!' In the fall, Mrs. Robert J. Malone gave the Society several original manuscripts of Grover Cleveland. Among them is Cleveland's address delivered in Nebraska City, Nebraska, on October 28,1905, at the unveiling of a monument to Julius Sterling Morton, founder of Arbor Day and secretary of agriculture in Cleveland's cabinet. Mrs. J. G. Phelps Stokes presented a group of colonial papers relating to legal and business transactions of Joseph and Paul Dudley, Matthew Griswold, and Roger Wolcott. The last significant collection of manuscripts to arrive in 1973 came from Hamilton Fish, who made a substantial addition to the papers he had given us in years past of Nicholas Fish and his son Hamilton Fish, great-grandfather and grandfather of the donor. We have already mentioned the return of the map and broadside collections to the second floor, and their coming home was made doubly welcome by the publication of two indispensable bibliographies.