As a former Registrar of Collections of the New-York Historical Society, I am dismayed by the recent news. The N-YHS has had a history of financial struggles and in the years that I have been away from it, I had hoped that the Board of Trustees and the Museum Administrators would find a way to bring one of New York's treasures back to a full life. I can only continue to hope for this as I wait for more information, from Robbin and other colleagues on museum-l, and, yet more stories in the Times. Perhaps NYU will become the hero in this. The N-YHS is truly a treasure. Its museum collections represent some of the finest examples of the work of artists and craftsmen in New York and the United States throughout its collecting period. Some of these will be familiar to many of you, such as the painters of the Hudson River school, the work of Asher B. Durand, Bierstadt, and others, of course. The richness of its archaeological collections might surprise you as would the intertwined relationships among the collections of the Society's archives, library and museum. These collections must continue to be regarded as a whole. The Society has (at least drafts of) a collections management policy, a mission statement and a collecting policy that may be employed to keep the objects, books, prints, manuscripts, historical papers, paintings, and artifacts that relate specifically to the history of New York City and New York State in the New-York Historical Society. Thanks again to Robbin for keeping us posted. Kathy Jones-Garmil Documentation Manager, Harvard Peabody Museum