Our Growing Collections

ROLAND BAUGHMAN

Gifts

A CADF,MY of Political Science gift. On April ii, 1933,
/N\ George Bernard Shaw addressed the Academy of
A )\ Political Science at the Metropolitan Opera House
in Ne\\' \ ork. His speech, which was delivered extemporane¬
ously, was entitled "The Future of Political Science in America,"
and it was carried to a radio audience h\' Station WJZ. Although
no prepared text existed, a court stenographer had been assigned
to take down tlie address; this was later sent to .Mr. Shaw in
England for his emendations in preparation for publication.
Shortly thereafter it was published by Dodd .Mead & Co.

Recently the typescript, with the author's manuscript changes,
turned up in the files of the Academy, whose office is located on
the Columbia campus. Following an established practice, the
typescript has been deposited in Special Collections, together
with the correspondence and other documents relating to the
occasion. It is a notable collection, and one that we are de¬
lighted to have the responsibility for preserving. The speech,
needless to say, which \\ as typically outspoken, often acid, and
always perceptive, excited a great deal of contro\'ersy.

Allen gift. Through the good offices of Mr. Ronald D. Kissack
we have received a remarkable letter by Horace Greeley, 4
November 1864, the gift of Mrs. Kissack's grandmother, Mrs.
Emma Allen of Long Beach, California. The letter is an answer
to a subscriber of Greeley's paper, the New York Tribune. The
subscriber (whose name we have been unable to decipher) had
apparently suggested the assassination of Jefferson Davis as a
way of ending the War. Greeley replied:  "Trust God in all