26                                 Roland Bazigloman

Cane gift. Mr. Melville H. Cane (A.B., 1900; LL.B., 1903) has
presented four items relating to George Edward Woodberry,
former professor of literature at Columbia (1891-1903) and first
chairman of the Department of Comparative Literature.

Clark gift. Mrs. John Maurice Clark of Westport, Connecticut,
has added a most valuable series of letters to her earlier gifts. The
present group comprises 23 pieces, including letters to her late
husband (A.M., 1906; Ph.D., 1911) and to his father, the late
Professor John Bates Clark (LL.D., 1929). Among the letters
are choice ones from Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight W. A'lorrow,
Ida M. Tarbell, and Booker T. Washington, but the finest of the
lot is a warm long-hand letter from Woodrow Wilson to John
Bates Clark, dated August 26, 1887, near the beginning of the
future President's teaching career. The letter was occasioned by
his having read Professor Clark's Philosophy of Wealth, pub¬
lished the previous year, which greatly impressed him. He writes:
"I feel that it has fertilized my own thought ... A sane, well-
balanced sympathizer with organized labour is very dear to my
esteem; and one who finds all the necessary stimulations of hope,
not in chimeras or in hastened reformation, but in the slow
processes of conservative endeavor is sure of my whole respect."

Fox gift. We were deeply saddened by the news of the death
of iMrs. Dixon Ryan Fox (A.M., 1914) on July 15. Only a
few weeks earlier Mrs. Fox had made a special visit to the Library
and announced her outright gift to Columbia of the notes and
supporting documents which her father, the late Professor
Herbert L. Osgood (Ph.D., 1889), had gathered for his The
American Colonies in the Eighteenth Century (Columbia Uni¬
versity Press, 1924). Mrs. Fox had helped her father compile the
notes, which had been placed in Columbiana for safekeeping
many years ago.

Professor Osgood had not completed his work at the time of
his death in 1918. His son-in-law, Professor Dixon Ryan Fox