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Charleston Library Society adds museum-quality displays, including Shakespeare collection

Cleveland said some of the items were coveted by curators of the Folger Museum in Washington, D.C., but she is glad Igoe’s family chose to keep them here.

She told the family the items would have been properly cared for by the Folger, but they also might have gotten somewhat lost in a museum that already touts its Shakespeare collection as the world’s largest.

“I told them, ‘If you gave it to the Library Society, it would be a crown jewel,’” she said.