THE Association held its fifty-seventh annual meeting this year in Cleveland, Ohio, April 30 through May 2, with headquarters at the Statler Hilton. Fourteen hundred and five historians and some wives passed through the smoothly functioning registration machinery which had been organized by Jack P. Greene and his Committee on Local Arrangements. The Association owes more than the usual debt of gratitude to this group; the advance preparations were excellent and its members conjured tape recorders and other unexpected essentials out of thin air on the shortest of notice. Many of the historians' wives enjoyed the complimentary tour of the University Circle and attendance was large at the cocktail parties which Kent State University and Western Reserve University sponsored in the late afternoons of April 30 and May 1. The Program Committee tried to find the best papers and commentators available, irrespective of field, and to unite them in a program which would balance youthful elan with scholarly experience, the provocative tentative hypothesis with building-block research. The members of the committee wish to acknowledge the many helpful suggestions for sessions, papers, and commentators that they received. If any conclusion can be drawn from this correspondence it is that graduate directors are much too reluctant in suggesting the names of outstanding junior scholars who have only recently received their degrees. In the end the program included twenty sessions which had been organized by the Program Committee and twelve sessions and three luncheons offered by cooperating societies. One hundred and fifty-seven historians participated, and of these, forty-nine came from the Middle West, forty-three represented southern institutions, forty-two work in the Northeast and twenty-three were from the Mountain or Pacific states. Attendance at most sessions was good, and in some instances reached overflow proportions. Apparently all but the most confirmed of lobbyists found program offerings which interested them.