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2019-2020 marks the 40th anniversary of the Lewis bequest, and the Library has a full year of programs and activities planned. In the words of Horace Walpole, the Library has...
The Library was well represented at the 2019 congress of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS) in Edinburgh, Scotland, in July. This conference...
The Library presented two panels at the ISECS conference: “Gothic Horrors, Catholic Undertones, and Political Caricature: Archival Riches of the Lewis Walpole Library,”...
The Recent Antiquarian Acquisitions blog was established to showcase new material from the long eighteenth century that has been acquired by the library. The library...
Visiting scholars and fellows in residence at the Yale Center for British Art, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Lewis Walpole Library assemble every few...
Two exhibitions opened in September: Trial by Media: the Queen Caroline Affair at the Lillian Goldman Library at the Yale Law School in New Haven, and Rescuing Horace Walpole...
