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March 30, 2020
As of the writing of this newsletter, in accordance with Yale University’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Lewis Walpole Library campus as well as all Yale University...
Joesph Roach
March 30, 2020
Joseph Roach, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Theater and Professor Emeritus of English, Yale University, presented the keynote lecture Fashionable Enemies: Glamour as...
March 30, 2020
On a sunny late January Sunday, the New Library filled with guests for the premiere performance of The Lewis Walpole Tableaux: A Musical Homage by 2019-2020 Travel Grant...
screenshot of online exhibition intro page
March 30, 2020
The exhibition Trial by Media: The Queen Caroline Affair, marking the two hundredth anniversary of the trial of Queen Caroline and presented at the Yale Law School Library...
November 12, 2019
Join our community of scholars! Applications are now being accepted for the 2020-2021 Fellowship year. Application deadline is January 6.   Apply for a fellowship More...
November 1, 2019
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...
November 1, 2019
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...