2025 Lewis Walpole Library Summer Fellowship for Yale Graduate Students

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Description This Fellowship affords Yale Graduate Students the opportunity to spend two, four, or eight weeks between June 1 and August 31 in residence at the library in Farmington, Connecticut, to delve into its rich collections of eighteenth-century materials (mainly British), including important holdings of prints, drawings, manuscripts, rare books, and paintings. Fellowship awards include: 8 weeks: $4000 4 weeks: $2000 2 weeks: $1000 About the Lewis Walpole Library: The Lewis Walpole Library (LWL), a department of the Yale University Library, is a research center for eighteenth-century studies and an essential resource for the study of Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill. The library, a gift to Yale University from Walpole collector and editor Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, and his wife, Annie Burr Lewis, is located on a fourteen-acre campus in historic Farmington, Connecticut. - a supplement to your graduate student stipend, depending upon the duration of your Fellowship: - a bedroom at the Timothy Root House, an eighteenth-century residence on the Library’s campus, adjacent to the main Library building. There is a shared self-catering kitchen and lounge, and each bedroom has a desk a...