This blog feature items from the Lewis Walpole Library’s collection associated with Walpole

birthday celebration at Strawberry Hill complete with cake in the shape of the house

at the Lewis Walpole Library in Farmington, featuring period music performed by Grand Harmonie and readings from selected letters

by George E. Haggerty, Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of English, University of California, Riverside. October 26, 2017

Discussants include Abby Coykendall, Jason Farr, Caroline Gonda, Paul Kelleher, Ellen Malenas Ledoux, Susan Lanser, and Timothy Young. Held at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Organized by Jonathan Kramnick, LWL Faculty Director and Maynard Mack Professor of English at Yale, November 10, 2017

Organized by Jonathan Kramnick, LWL Faculty Director and Maynard Mack Professor of English at Yale, November 10, 2017

Curated by Justin Brooks, Heather V. Vermeulen, Steve Pincus, and Cynthia Roman, October 20, 2017 - March 2, 2018

to consider how current multi-disciplinary methodologies invite creative research in archival and special collections at the Lewis Walpole Library and beyond

online exhibit was created by Kelsey Champagne, Graduate Research Assistant and Kristen McDonald, Public Services, Lewis Walpole Library with help from Melissa Grafe and Steve Wieda

presentation on "Global Encounters"at the Lewis Walpole Library in Farmington by Steve Pincus, Bradford Durfee Professor of History, Yale University

23rd Lewis Walpole Library Lecture, by Claudia L. Johnson, Murray Professor of English Literature, Princeton University, at Yale Center for British Art

Video of performance presented by the Lewis Walpole Library and the Yale Center for British Art
May 2, 2018. Abridged by David Worrall, Emeritus Professor of English at Nottingham Trent University; Directed by Misty G. Anderson, Lindsay Young Professor of English, University of Tennessee

Reading The Mysterious Mother. Organized by Jill Campbell, Professor of English and Cynthia Roman, Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Paintings, The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. May 4, 2018

Staging The Mysterious Mother. Organized by Jill Campbell, Professor of English and Cynthia Roman, Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Paintings, The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. May 4, 2018

The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence Editorial Project Records document the full scope of the publication effort over its nearly fifty-year span

Brief summary of the Edition and information about the electronic version.