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The Lewis Walpole Library is a research center for eighteenth-century studies and an essential resource for the study of Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill. Its collections include important holdings of eighteenth-century British prints, drawings, manuscripts, rare books, paintings, and decorative arts. Given to Yale by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis (1895-1979) and Annie Burr Lewis (1902-1959), the Lewis Walpole Library is located in Farmington, Connecticut, in several eighteenth-century buildings on a fourteen-acre campus. The Lewis Walpole Library is a department of Yale University Library and open to researchers.


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We are delighted to announce the resumption of our residential Summer Fellowship program for Yale Graduate Students preparing for or at work on a dissertation on a topic relevant to the LWL holdings. Applications to spend two, four, or eight weeks during summer 2021 between July 14 and August 31 are still being accepted. Summer Fellowship details

                        

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December 15, 2020
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December 14, 2020
Funded under an Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) partnership development grant Legacies of Catalogue Descriptions and Curatorial Voice: Opportunities for Digital...
December 14, 2020
If there are silver linings for the LWL in this current Covid moment, one surely is the fact that in the absence of the library’s usual in-residence scholars and of a busy...