Lewis Walpole Library

The Lewis Walpole Library is a renowned research center for the study of Britain in the long 18th century. Its collections include important holdings of eighteenth-century British prints, drawings, manuscripts, rare books, paintings, and decorative arts. Given to Yale by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis (1895-1979) and Annie Burr Lewis (1902-1959), the Lewis Walpole Library is located in Farmington, Connecticut, in several eighteenth-century buildings on a fourteen-acre campus. The Lewis Walpole Library is a department of Yale University Library and open to researchers.

The Lewis Walpole Library funds four-week visiting fellowships, including the Lewis Walpole Library/American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies residential fellowship, and two-week travel grants to support research in the library’s rich collections of materials from the British world of the long eighteenth-century.

Fellowship and Travel Grant Award recipients 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.

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ELIGIBILITY:

• Scholars pursuing postdoctoral or advanced research or
• Doctoral candidates at work on a dissertation

EXPECTATIONS: all Fellowship and Travel Grant Award recipients are expected to

• complete fellowships within the fellowship year (June 1 through May 31).
• be in residence at the library
• be free of other significant professional obligations during their stay
• take their fellowship in one uninterrupted period
• focus research substantially on the Lewis Walpole Library’s collections

AWARD FUNDING INFORMATION:

• round-trip cost of travel between the Lewis Walpole Library and the recipient’s home institution or residence
• reimbursement of the cost of a rental car or local travel expenses
• accommodation for four weeks (fellowships) or two weeks (travel grants) in an eighteenth-century house on the Library’s campus
• a per diem living allowance to cover living expenses for four-week Fellows and two-week Travel Grant Recipients. The per diem is calculated using the US General Services Administration’s current per diem rates (M & IE portion) for the Hartford, CT area.

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Lewis Walpole Library Visiting Fellowships and Travel Grants Application

Visiting Fellowships:

• 2-week Travel Grants
• 4-week Fellowships

Summer Fellowship for Yale Graduate Students

Charles A. Ryskamp Travel Grant (for Yale undergraduates in their senior year)

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Application Deadline: November 1, 2024

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https://walpole.library.yale.edu/fellowships/visiting-fellowships-and-travel-grants