Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, records 1979-1997

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Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, records 1979-1997

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ru.0787

The materials consist of administrative records and photographic negatives of the Yale Lewis Walpole Library and its print collection.

2.75 linear feet (3 boxes)

eng,

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6352416

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Lewis Walpole Library

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Wilmarth Sheldon “Lefty” Lewis, was born in Alameda, California in 1895, attended the Thacher School in Ojai, California, and graduated from Yale University, a member of the Class of 1918. Lewis, began collecting books not long after his graduation from Yale. Then, on a trip to London in 1923, he purchased a copy of John Heneage Jesse’s George Selwyn and His Contemporaries that was full of manuscript notes by Lady Louisa Stuart. Her lively commentary about the people and events described in t...