Hispanic Society Museum and Library
New York City
The Hispanic Society of America was founded in 1904 by Archer Milton Huntington (1870-1955) with the object of establishing a free, public museum and reference library for the study of the art, history, and culture of Spain, Portugal, Latin America, and the Philippines. Huntington's private library (photo below) numbered 2,000 volumes, when he began cataloging it in 1890 at the age of 20. It formed the nucleus of the collection, which now offers unrivaled resources for researchers with more than 300,000 books and periodicals, including 15,000 volumes printed before 1701 and over 250,000 manuscripts, letters, and documents dating from the 11th century to the present.
Seminar: Coffee with Shakespeare
Tuesdays, 9:30 - 11:00 a.m., beginning October 4 in the library's Conference Room
Please join us for a cup of hot coffee and a reading and discussion of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night with award-winning Shakespearean scholar Melissa Cook. Meeting dates are: Oct 4, 11, 18, 25, and Nov. 1. A screening of Twelfth Night will follow the seminar series at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, November 8. A graduate of Cornell University, Melissa Cook earned an M.A. and A.B.D. in English Literature from Boston University. While at Boston, Cook was awarded a Presidential University Graduate Fellowship and won the Graduate School Prize for Excellence in Teaching. She has presented multiple papers at the Shakespeare Association of America and the 16th Century Studies Association.
To register for this series, please visit here.
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