News

August 4, 2020
Like many of our colleagues in special collections and museums at Yale and more widely, we at the Lewis Walpole Library are disappointed that we are not able to host programs...
August 4, 2020
The Library’s Fortieth Anniversary year is going out on a high note with the release of “A Visit to Wilmarth S. Lewis and Horace Walpole in Farmington,” a remarkable video of...
August 4, 2020
The LWL Technical Services staff like the rest of the Yale Library staff, has been working from their homes since March 16th. It has been an interesting time, requiring...
June 16, 2020
“Black Bodies and Neoclassical Whiteness in the Age of Undress” Lewis Walpole Library Online Lecture June 24, 2020, 1 p.m. EDT Dr. Amelia Rauser, Professor of Art History,...
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April 3, 2020
For those in need of a little distraction, check out our new Puzzles page. Our Public Services Librarian Sue Walker has created some fun 18th century themed word searches and...
March 31, 2020
Stay up-to-date with the latest LWL happenings by checking out the newest edition of the LWL Newsletter. 
March 30, 2020
Sometimes, wonderful things turn up in the most unexpected places! In January 2006 the Library purchased at auction a collection of printed portraits, topographical views,...