Lewis Walpole Library is accepting applications for on-site fellowships and grants through Nov. 1

Lewis Walpole Library—home to one of the most important collections of 18th-century British graphic art outside the British Museum in London—is now accepting applications for the 2026–27 fellowship year. 

The library offers four-week, on-site visiting fellowships and two-week travel grants to support research in the library’s internationally renowned collection. Non-Yale scholars pursuing postdoctoral or advanced research and doctoral candidates at work on a dissertation are invited to apply. The application deadline is Saturday, Nov. 1.

Recipients will be in residence at the Timothy Root House on the bucolic Farmington, Connecticut, campus. They will also have access to additional Yale resources—including at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Sterling Memorial Library, and the Yale Center for British Art. 

Lewis Walpole Library also offers summer fellowships for Yale graduate students. The application deadline is May 1. The library also offers the Charles A. Ryskamp Travel Grant to a Yale College undergraduate whose senior essay would benefit from research in the Lewis Walpole Library‘s collections. Proposals of up to 1,000 words should be emailed to the library prior to or during the research phase of the senior project.

—M. Reed

Images: Current Lewis Walpole fellow Rose McKean in the reading room with Laura O’Brien Miller, discussing a Gothic chapbook in the collection. Gothic chapbooks are an understudied form of popular literature that is the focus of McKean’s dissertation, “‘Objections of Terror’: Replication and Adaptation in Gothic Chapbooks 1765–1830”; three views of the grounds of Lewis Walpole Library. Photos by Mara Lavitt