Fellowship Applications Invited for 2009-2010

The Library offers short-term residential fellowships and travel grants to support research in the Library's collections. Scholars undertaking post-doctoral or equivalent research, and doctoral candidates at work on a dissertation, are encouraged to apply. The Lewis Walpole Library fellowships, usually for one month, include the cost of travel to and from Farmington, accommodation in an eighteenth-century house on the Library's campus, and a living allowance stipend ($1800). For more details click here.

New Exhibition Opens at Library

"Portraits of Painters: Drawings by George Vertue and Horace Walpole’s Anecdotes of Painting in England" is currently on view in the Library’s exhibition space in Farmington through February 25, 2009. The exhibition includes drawings by Vertue as well as the related prints published in volumes of Walpole’s Anecdotes of Painting. The gallery is open Wednesdays, 2-4 p.m. For more details click here.

Yale Indian Papers Project and Executive Editor Paul Grant-Costa join the Lewis Walpole Library. Paul Grant-Costa has joined the staff of the Lewis Walpole Library as Executive Editor of the Yale Indian Papers Project. While this represents a new and exciting focus for the LWL, the addition of the project (and its editor) to the Library may also be seen as a fitting continuation of founder W.S. Lewis’s interest in the region’s Native American history. The Yale Indian Papers Project (YIPP) is a documentary editing initiative whose mission is to collect, transcribe, annotate, and electronically publish primary source materials on New England Native Americans.  For more information, click here or contact Paul Grant-Costa by email at paul.grant-costa@yale.edu or by phone at 860-677-2140.