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- Introduction
- Visiting fellowships
- Summer fellowships for graduate students
at Yale
- Mailing address
- Recipients
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
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
(currently $1,800). The Library's travel grants typically cover transportation costs for research trips of shorter duration and also include accommodation on site.
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:
The Librarian
The Lewis Walpole Library
P.O. Box 1408
Farmington, CT 06034
USA
Fax: 860-677-6369
Two confidential letters of recommendation are also required by the application deadline, which is January 16, 2009. Awards will be announced in March.
Summer fellowships for graduate
students at Yale
 The
Lewis Walpole Library offers summer fellowships to students
enrolled in doctoral programs at Yale University who wish
to pursue dissertation research in the Lewis Walpole collections.
Ordinarily, fellowships will be granted
to students who have completed their course work, have passed
their qualifying examinations, and are prepared to pursue
research for the dissertation, typically after the third
year of study.
Graduate Fellows are required to be in
residence either for eight weeks or for four weeks during
the months of June, July, and August. A stipend of $3,900
is provided for an eight-week period, and of $1,950 for
a four-week period.
There is no application form. Applicants
are asked to submit the following materials to the Librarian
of the Lewis Walpole Library: a résumé, a brief research
proposal (not to exceed three pages), and an approved dissertation
prospectus or equivalent statement outlining the scope of
the doctoral thesis. The proposal should explain the relationship
between the Lewis Walpole collections and the applicant's
dissertation research. Only students whose research depends
on extensive use of materials in the Lewis Walpole Library
will be considered for these awards.
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, call or send email
to the Librarian (860 677-2140; walpole@yale.edu).
Mailing address for application
materials
Margaret Powell, Librarian
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 calling the Librarian at
860-284-5025 or 860-677-2140, or by e-mail: walpole@yale.edu
FELLOWSHIPS
ANNOUNCED
The Lewis Walpole Library’s is delighted to announce the recipients of Fellowships for the 2008-2009 academic year. This year, thirteen Fellowships were awarded.
For a full list of Fellowships for 2008-2009, click here.
Recipients
2008 Fellowship and Grant
Awards
2007 Fellowship and Grant
Awards
2005 Fellowship and Grant
Awards
2004 Fellowship and Grant
Awards
2003 Fellowship and Grant
Awards
2002 Fellowship and Grant
Awards
2001 Fellowship and Grant
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