Research

"From the moment he began collecting Walpole Lefty thought of his books as going eventually to Yale.” So wrote Lewis in his autobiographical One Man’s Education, envisioning a “center for eighteenth-century studies under pleasant circumstances … able to support serious studies in any aspect of [Walpole’s] time.” The Library attracts inquiries and visits from students and scholars around the world and seeks to make it as easy as possible for them to find the resources they need. Researchers regularly work with unique primary materials in the Library’s reading rooms, access its digital surrogates remotely via the web, and search its growing collection in Yale’s online catalog, and by doing so live out Lewis’s vision for “Yale in Farmington.”

W.S. Lewis, One Man's Education (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1968), 468, 475

Library Collections

• Books and Other Printed Texts
• Manuscript Materials
• Prints, Drawings and Paintings
• Decorative Arts

Digital Collection
Orbis: Library Catalog
Reader Guidelines
Rights and Reproductions