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Fellowship and Travel Grant Applications Invited for 2010-2011
Applications are invited for Visiting Fellowships and Travel Grants for the 2010-2011 academic year. Recipients of awards will be expected to take up their fellowships between July 2010 and June 2011. For further details click here.
2009-2010 Fellowships
The Library is delighted to announce that eleven fellowships and one travel grant have been awarded for the 2009-2010 academic year.
For a full list of award recipients for 2009-2010, click here.
Introduction
The Library, a department of the Yale University
Library located in Farmington, Connecticut, forty miles
from New Haven, has significant holdings of eighteenth-century
prints, drawings, manuscripts, books, and paintings. It
is able to support advanced research in most aspects of
British eighteenth-century studies. The Library offers visiting
fellowships, normally for four weeks, as well as travel
grants of lesser duration, to scholars engaged in post-doctoral
or equivalent research and to doctoral candidates at the
dissertation stage. In a typical year the Library awards
up to a dozen fellowships and travel grants. Fellows in
residence also have access to additional materials at Yale,
including those at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript
Library and the Yale Center for British Art. Summer fellowships
for graduate students at Yale are also offered.
The Library’s unrivaled collection
of Walpoliana includes three-quarters of the traceable volumes
from Horace Walpole’s famous library at Strawberry
Hill and many letters and other manuscripts by him. Its
book and manuscript collections of considerable depth cover
all aspects of eighteenth-century British culture: theater,
literature, politics, history, art history, antiquarianism,
scientific history, and many other fields. Materials include
books, pamphlets, broadsheets, periodicals, and almanacs,
and there is a particularly fine collection of extra-illustrated
books. The Manuscript collection holds international diplomatic
correspondence, Exchequer account books, and literary manuscripts:
parliamentary, personal, and travel diaries; and cookbooks.
The Library is also the home of the world’s largest
and finest collection of eighteenth-century British graphic
art outside the British Museum. Indexed in great detail,
its 35,000 satirical prints, portraits, and topographical
views are an incomparable and easily accessible resource
of visual material on every aspect of English eighteenth-century
life. The Walpole Digital Library, which holds close to
10,000 images from the Library's collection of prints and
drawings, is available for consultation both on site and
remotely. Online access to Yale’s catalogs and information
sources is provided, and the Library offers a wide range
of specialized indices.
Self-catering accommodation is available
to visiting researchers in an adjacent historic house belonging
to the Library.
Visiting fellowships and travel grants
 The Library offers short-term residential fellowships and travel grants to support research in the Library's rich collections of eighteenth-century--mainly British--materials, including important holdings of prints, drawings, manuscripts, rare books, and paintings, as well as a growing collection of sources for the study of New England Native Americans.
Scholars undertaking post-doctoral or equivalent research, and doctoral candidates at work on a dissertation, are encouraged to apply. Recipients are expected to be in residence at the Library, to be free of other significant professional obligations during their stay, and to focus their research on the Lewis Walpole Library's collections. Fellows also have access to additional resources at Yale, including those in the Sterling Memorial Library, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Yale Center for British Art.
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
(now $2,000). The Library's travel grants typically cover transportation costs for research trips of shorter duration and also include accommodation on site.
Application Details
To apply for a fellowship or travel grant, candidates should send a curriculum vitae, including educational background, professional experience and publications, and a brief outline of the research proposal (not to exceed three pages) to:
Margaret K. Powell
W.S. Lewis Librarian and Executive Director
The Lewis Walpole Library
P.O. Box 1408
Farmington, CT 06034
USA
Fax: 860-677-6369
While application materials may initially be submitted electronically, a hard copy is required for the application to be considered complete.
Two confidential letters of recommendation are also required by the application deadline. Letters of recommendation should specifically address the merits of the candidate's project and application for the Lewis Walpole Library fellowship. General letters of recommendation or dossier letters are not appropriate.
The application deadline for the 2010-2011 Fellowships is January 18, 2010. Awards will be announced in March.
Summer fellowships for graduate
students at Yale
 The Lewis Walpole Library offers one- and two-month summer fellowships to students enrolled in a doctoral program at Yale University who are engaged in or preparing for dissertation research and whose topic of study is supported by the Lewis Walpole Library collections.
The program affords students the opportunity to spend four or eight weeks during the months of June, July, and August in residence at the Library to delve into its collections of eighteenth-century British books, manuscripts, and graphic materials. Fellowship awards include accommodations on-site in Farmington and a stipend of either $3,900 or $1,950, depending upon the duration of the fellowship. Students are expected to be in residence and focus their research on the Library collections.
There is no application form. Applicants should submit the following materials to the Librarian of the Lewis Walpole Library:
- A résumé
- A brief research proposal (not to exceed three pages), explaining the relationship between the Lewis Walpole Library’s collections and the applicant’s dissertation research
- An approved dissertation prospectus or equivalent statement outlining the scope of the doctoral thesis
The applicant must also arrange to have two confidential letters of recommendation sent to the Librarian, one of which should come from the applicant’s dissertation advisor.
For more information, please contact Margaret Powell, W.S. Lewis Librarian and Executive Director, at 860-677-2140, or at margaret.powell@yale.edu
Mailing address for application
materials
Margaret Powell
W.S. Lewis Librarian and Executive Director
The Lewis Walpole Library
P.O. Box 1408
Farmington, CT 06034
Fax: 860-677-6369
More information about the scope of the
collections may be obtained by phone: 860-677-2140, or by e-mail: walpole@yale.edu
Recipients
2009 Fellowship and Grant
Awards
2008 Fellowship and Grant
Awards
2007 Fellowship and Grant
Awards
2005 Fellowship and Grant
Awards
2004 Fellowship and Grant
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2003 Fellowship and Grant
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2002 Fellowship and Grant
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2001 Fellowship and Grant
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