2025 Annual Meeting
April 23 – 26, 2025 • New York City, NY
The Big Apple. The City That Never Sleeps.
Everything about New York City is big. New York City has more people, more millionaires, more languages, more stores, more theaters – just more of nearly everything – than any other city in the United States. The biggest item in New York is news that the Manuscript Society is coming to town!
Next spring the Manuscript Society will be excited to find out if the Big Apple’s manuscript treasures match the promise of the metropolis’s tremendous breadth and diversity!
We last held our annual meeting in New York in 2000. In twenty-five years, much has changed: New York’s cultural institutions have evolved, and our Society’s membership has grown. It’s time to return.
With so many fantastic venues to sample during a three-day visit, you know that you’ll be absorbing information and sights at “New York Speed.” Your planning committee has been hard at work to make this meeting as productive and enjoyable as it possibly can be!
The history of New York is the history of our nation.
European explorers recognized the importance of New York’s strategic harbor as early as 1524 with the arrival of Giovanni da Verrazzano. Dutch colonists claimed the area in 1624 as New Amsterdam, and soon purchased part of Manhattan from Lenape natives. Dutch influence is still evident in famous New York names and geography, and we’ll see that in artifacts on our tour. British colonists soon took over, changing the settlement’s name from New Amsterdam to New York.
With independence from England, New York became the young nation’s first capital under its new Constitution, and surpassed Philadelphia as its most populous city. Because of its pivotal position in the mid-Atlantic seaboard, New York became the immigration focal point for most of the 19th and part of the 20th century. Many Americans can trace their ancestors’ arrival path to the new world through New York City.
As the economic capital of the United States today, the New York City metropolitan area, if it were an independent nation, would be the world’s tenth-largest economy!
Limited Capacity: Important Note
Nearly everything about New York is big, but not the capacity of every library and museum room that we’ll visit. Because we need to keep our group to a manageable size, we may not be able to accommodate everyone who wishes to attend. The number of attendees at this meeting will be limited! If you know you would like to attend this great meeting, you should send in your form and payment as soon as possible. Once we sell out, we will be sold out.
Registration
- $750.00 (exclusive of airfare and hotel)
- Deadline for registration is March 17, 2025
- Additional Sunday: $140.00