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What a difference a week makes! Spring is definitely approaching & with the warmer weather, mammals both large & small passed in front of the trail cam over the past week, day & night. How many can you id? Be sure to watch to the end with the sound on! #FaunaFriday @YaleLibrary

The LWL’s Spring/Summer 2025 exhibition is going up! Working with LWL Curator Cindy Roman, YUL Preservation Department’s Kerri Sancomb & Sarah Davis install “‘Seen With Great Delight’: Spectacle in Georgian London” on view March 5 through August 22. @YaleLibrary

We are so fortunate to be a part of and contribute to such a culturally rich town. #FarmingtonCulturalDistrict #UnionvilleCulturalDistrict wtnh.com/news/connectic… @YaleLibrary

It’s been awfully cold and snowy and doesn’t feel like spring, but the very cheering sight of American robins undeterred by the icy crust tells us spring isn’t all that far away! #FaunaFriday @YaleLibrary

Wouldn’t you like to curl up here with a good book? It may not be our main Reading Room, but the “New Library” retains the same charm it had when designed in 1928 by William Adam’s Delano. It is used now for Friday Fellows’ Coffees, talks, performances, conferences, & receptions

#HappyValentinesDay on #FaunaFriday! Look who’s looking for love at the LWL Skunks have been seen behind the barn this week, & the here’s the video. Skunk mating season here is late-Feb to early-March & male skunks particularly will leave their dens & be more active @YaleLibrary

🎵Cupid, draw back your bow... #HappyValentinesDay #Cupid “Cupid’s Tower” in Darly’s comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c. published by Mary Darly, January 1, 1776. @YaleLibrary

Friendships formed in school can last a lifetime. Annie Burr Lewis stayed very close to friends she’d made @missporters school in Farmington, & they gathered at her home for school reunions for years afterwards. Here are photos taken in 1919 & 1937 Happy #GalentinesDay!

Celebrate #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience! Entomologist, naturalist & artist Maria Sibylla Merian's watercolor drawings, known for their scientific accuracy, are held in the the LWL bit.ly/3WSChVW, as well as the Royal Collection & elsewhere @YaleLibrary

Calling all Yale Grad Students! What are YOU doing this summer? Spend it in beautiful Farmington, immersed in research on the long 18th-century with fellow scholars. Onsite accommodations are free, & you get a supplement to your stipend Apply today! walpole.library.yale.edu/fellowships/su…

What an amazing sky this afternoon over the Root House! These are apparently Altocumulus undulatus #clouds. #FarmingtonCt @YaleLibrary

Don’t miss the 27th Lewis Walpole Library Lecture, “Professor of Insects and Worms: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and his Life-Made World“ by Jessica Riskin, Frances & Charles Field Professor of History, @Stanford April 30, 5:30 pm, 53 Wall Street Auditorium, New Haven, CT @YaleLibrary

Happy #BurnsNight! “But, if ye wish her gratefu’ prayer, Gie her a #Haggis!”

The waiting is over! If you applied for a 2025-26 Lewis Walpole Library Fellowship or Travel Grant, check your email. Award notifications have gone out. Look for an email from walpole@yale.edu If you received an award offer, let us know by March 15 if you wish to accept.

Making a Pie for #NationalPieDay? Here are some recipes for pie crusts from the 18th-century Fitzherbert family Recipes (search.library.yale.edu/catalog/8090216) @YaleLibrary

Don't miss "The King, his Courtesan, and the Snuffbox he Gave of her: Variations on an Erotic Ritual from George IV to Bootsy," @TheNACBS Broadsides blog post by Anna Roberts, LWL Fellow 2023. nacbs.org/post/the-king-… #YaleLibrary

The YCBA's next Paul Mellon Director will be Martina Droth, an art historian and curator who has served in a variety of prominent roles at the museum for 16 years. Learn more: bit.ly/3ClmTtQ @Yale

Still waiting? Wondering about the status of your fellowship application? Fear not! Decisions have been made, & notifications will go out by the end of January Our expectation to get announcements out by the first of January was overly optimistic—beg your pardon for the delay

Well done, @EdwinRose3! (LWL Fellow 2020)

Yale Libraries in New Haven will transition to traditional Spring Semester hours on Monday, January 13th with the start of the Spring term. Please visit Yale Library News or Yale Library Hours for detailed info regarding winter break hours. Contact Ask Yale Library for more help

Please note all Yale Library locations will be closed from Tuesday, December 24, through Wednesday, January 1, in observance of Yale University’s holiday and recess period. Libraries will reopen with an expanded schedule, beginning Thursday, January 2 through Sunday, January 12.

Well that’s it for us for ! The Lewis Walpole Library will be closed for winter break and will reopen January 2. Thanks to all our Fellows, researchers, guests, and vendors for a wonderful year. Best wishes for the Holidays. See you in 2025! #SeasonsGreetings @YaleLibrary