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The Lewis Walpole Library Yale’s Lewis Walpole Library is a research center for the study of the 18th century in Britain

The Lewis Walpole Library is a research center for eighteenth-century studies and an essential resource for the study of Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill. Its collections include important holdings of eighteenth-century British prints, drawings, manuscripts, rare books, paintings, and decorative arts. Given to Yale by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis (1895-1979) and Annie Burr Lewis (1902-1959), the Lewis Walpole Library is located in Farmington, Connecticut, in several eighteenth-century buildings on a fourteen-acre campus. The Lewis Walpole Library is a department of Yale University Library, open to researchers by appointment.

A little taste of the spooky season just in time for the Symposium HOGARTH: HIS ART, LIFE, AND TIMES. A Tribute to Ronal...
10/14/2026

A little taste of the spooky season just in time for the Symposium HOGARTH: HIS ART, LIFE, AND TIMES. A Tribute to Ronald Paulson. Begins Oct 14 4:30pm at Yale Center for British Art. Runs through Oct 16 4:15pm. Free and open to the public.

Bringing together top scholars from different disciplines to share new research through panels, discussions, films, and breakout sessions.

Extra points if you can tell which series these are from.



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Bring your class to the Lewis Walpole Library, and we'll help them learn about book history, printmaking, connoisseurshi...
10/11/2026

Bring your class to the Lewis Walpole Library, and we'll help them learn about book history, printmaking, connoisseurship, collecting, material culture, and more. What can we do for your class?




Come play a game of croquet at the Lewis Walpole Library...if you dare! yalelibrary
10/10/2026

Come play a game of croquet at the Lewis Walpole Library...if you dare!



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10/07/2026

Come follow us on Blue Sky now, too!
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We love unexpectedly finding little sketches. These tiny pencil images of horse-drawn carts and people can be found on t...
10/06/2026

We love unexpectedly finding little sketches. These tiny pencil images of horse-drawn carts and people can be found on the flap of a letter dated 14 September 1828 from an unknown correspondent (Jordan?) to Thomas Walpole.



LWL MSS 16 Box 5 Folder 3

29th Lewis Walpole Library Lecture Emma Rothschild on "The Counter-Revolution of 1776 in France"29th October 5:30 pmWhit...
10/05/2026

29th Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
Emma Rothschild on "The Counter-Revolution of 1776 in France"
29th October 5:30 pm
Whitney Humanities Center, Auditorium L02
New Haven, CT

10/02/2026

Happy ! This cheeky paid us a visit Wednesday. According to Connecticut DEEP:
"The bobcat is the only wild cat found in Connecticut and the most common wild cat in North America. Its status has changed dramatically in our state. Historically, bobcats were not protected in Connecticut and were viewed as a threat to agriculture and game species. The state even had a bounty on bobcats from 1935-1971. By the early 1970s, a large increase in the value of bobcat pelts raised concerns that the population could be overharvested. In addition, deforestation of the state’s landscape that peaked in the 1800s greatly reduced habitat for bobcats and many other wildlife species. In 1972, the bobcat was reclassified as a protected furbearer in Connecticut with no hunting or trapping seasons."

Register today for the upcoming Symposium HOGARTH: HIS ART, LIFE, AND TIMES. A Tribute to Ronald Paulson. 14-16 October...
09/30/2026

Register today for the upcoming Symposium HOGARTH: HIS ART, LIFE, AND TIMES. A Tribute to Ronald Paulson. 14-16 October at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven. Free and open to the public.

https://walpole.library.yale.edu/programs/hogarth-symposium-2026

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For we bring you a selection of chonky bears from the prints collection. Happy Vote in the comments
09/25/2026

For we bring you a selection of chonky bears from the prints collection. Happy

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A group of students visited the LWL last week as part of the program. The attendees ranged from newly arrived first ...
09/14/2026

A group of students visited the LWL last week as part of the program.

The attendees ranged from newly arrived first year undergrad students to grad students. They each got an LWL 🧸stamp in their library passport toward entering a drawing for an individual study room at for the whole academic year.

https://guides.library.yale.edu/DiscoverYaleLibrary

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154 Main Street
Farmington, CT
06032

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 4:45pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 4:45pm
Wednesday 10am - 4:45pm
Thursday 8:30am - 4:45pm
Friday 8:30am - 4:45pm

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+18606772140

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