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{{Short description|Library in Farmington, Connecticut}}
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[[Image:Horace Walpole 1768.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[Horace Walpole]], whose papers are held at the Lewis Walpole Library]]
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The '''Lewis Walpole Library''' in [[Farmington, Connecticut]], is part of the [[Yale University Library]] system. It holds important collections of 18th-century British literary remains, including an unrivalled quantity of [[Horace Walpole]]'s papers and effects from his estate at [[Strawberry Hill House|Strawberry Hill]] in [[Twickenham]] in west London.<ref name="walpole">{{Cite web |title=Welcome {{!}} Lewis Walpole Library |url=https://walpole.library.yale.edu/ |access-date=2023-12-08 |website=walpole.library.yale.edu}}</ref>

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 to [[Yale University]], of whose [[Yale University Library|Library]] it forms a department. Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis also left two volumes of memoirs, much of them relevant to the library: ''Collectors Progress'' (1946) and ''One Man's Education'' (1967).<ref name="walpole" />

The correspondence of Lewis and [[Alan Noel Latimer Munby]] is available in the library and provides insight into the bibliophile world of the 20th century.<ref>Clarke, Stephen.(2024)."From Oflag VVC to King's College Cambridge" The Correspondence of A.N.L.Munby and W.S. Lewis." [[The Book Collector]] 73 (Spring): 11- 21.
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The Library offers residential fellowships and travel grants, along with exhibitions, lectures, seminars, and colloquia.<ref>Yale University advertisement: ''London Review of Books, 8 March 2018, p. 45.</ref>

==Publications==
*''The Age of Horace Walpole and Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis: an exhibit marking the fortieth jubilee of the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence and the fiftieth of the Lewis Walpole Library at Farmington [at] the College Library and the Watkinson Library, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, October 29 through November 19, 1973.''
*''The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole’s Correspondence'' (48 volumes)

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[[Category:Yale University Library]]
[[Category:Farmington, Connecticut]]
[[Category:Art museums and galleries in Connecticut]]
[[Category:Literary museums in the United States|Walpole, Horace]]
[[Category:Libraries in Hartford County, Connecticut]]
[[Category:Special collections libraries in the United States]]


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