TheLewis Walpole Library inFarmington, Connecticut, is part of theYale University Library system. It holds important collections of 18th-century British literary remains, including an unrivalled quantity ofHorace Walpole's papers and effects from his estate atStrawberry Hill inTwickenham in west London.[1]
The collections include 18th-century British books, manuscripts, prints, drawings, and paintings, as well as important examples of the decorative arts. They were gathered by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis (1895–1979, a graduate of Yale in 1918) and his wife Annie Burr Lewis (1902–1959) in a group of 18th-century buildings at Farmington. The Lewises subsequently donated the collection toYale University, of whoseLibrary it forms a department. Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis also left two volumes of memoirs, much of them relevant to the library:Collectors Progress (1946) andOne Man's Education (1967).[1]
The correspondence of Lewis andAlan Noel Latimer Munby is available in the library and provides insight into the bibliophile world of the 20th century.[2]
The Library offers residential fellowships and travel grants, along with exhibitions, lectures, seminars, and colloquia.[3]
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