LIBRARY NOTES
Get a glimpse of some of the NYSL's hidden treasures. In May, the Library will display selections from three of the special collections, including works from Paracelsus, Eugene Delacroix, Gertrude Jekyll, Edith Wharton, Max Beerbohm, and Franz Masereel.
The exhibition includes sixteenth-century books given by John Winthrop (1606-1676), a physician and the first governor of Connecticut. Eighteenth-century novels make up our collection from James Hammond, a Newport merchant who set up a lending library in his dry goods shop. John Cleve Green (1800-1875) was a railroad entrepreneur and prosperous China trader who endowed both Princeton University and this Library. Keep an eye out for the new exhibition on the second floor.
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