2025 Lewis Walpole Library Summer Fellowship for Yale Graduate Students

This Fellowship affords Yale Graduate Students the opportunity to spend two, four, or eight weeks between June 1 and August 31 in residence at the library in Farmington, Connecticut, to delve into its rich collections of eighteenth-century materials (mainly British), including important holdings of prints, drawings, manuscripts, rare books, and paintings.

Fellowship awards include:

• a supplement to your graduate student stipend, depending upon the duration of your Fellowship:
  • 8 weeks: $4000
  • 4 weeks: $2000
  • 2 weeks: $1000
• a bedroom at the Timothy Root House, an eighteenth-century residence on the Library’s campus, adjacent to the main Library building. There is a shared self-catering kitchen and lounge, and each bedroom has a desk and an attached full bathroom.

About the Lewis Walpole Library: The Lewis Walpole Library (LWL), a department of the Yale University Library, is a research center for eighteenth-century studies and an essential resource for the study of Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill. The library, a gift to Yale University from Walpole collector and editor Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, and his wife, Annie Burr Lewis, is located on a fourteen-acre campus in historic Farmington, Connecticut.

Applicants are required to submit the following materials through Interfolio:

• A résumé
• A statement expressing preferred duration and dates of residency
• A brief research proposal (not to exceed three double-spaced pages), explaining the relevance of the Lewis Walpole Library’s collections to the applicant’s research objectives
• A list of relevant Lewis Walpole Library sources that the applicant expects to consult
• An approved dissertation prospectus or equivalent statement outlining the scope of the proposed project as it relates to the applicant’s degree program
• The applicant must also request, via the online application portal, a confidential letter of recommendation from the applicant’s dissertation advisor (for PhD students) or primary advisor (for other graduate students)