Lewis Walpole Library Visiting Fellowships and Travel Grants
Applications are being accepted for Visiting Fellowships and Travel Grants for the 2008-2009 academic year. The deadline for applications is January 18, 2008.
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 visiting fellowships, which include the cost of travel to and from Farmington, provide a stipend of $1,800 per month in addition to accommodation in an eighteenth-century house on site. The travel grants, which vary in duration and amount, also include accommodation.
There is no application form. Applicants are asked to submit the following materials to the Librarian of the Lewis Walpole Library: a curriculum vitae including educational background, professional experience and publications, and a brief outline of the research proposal (not to exceed three pages). Two confidential letters of recommendation are also required by the application deadline.
The application deadline awarded for the academic year 2008 - 2009, is January 18, 2008. Awards will be announced in March.
Additional information about the library, its collections, facilities, and programs, may be found at http://www.library. yale.edu/ walpole
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
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