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Wilmarth S. Lewis, Walpole Scholar, ALS/TLS (19)

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Wilmarth S. Lewis, Walpole Scholar, ALS/TLS (19)
LEWIS, WILMARTH SHELDON. 1895-1979. A collection of 12 autograph letters signed, one postcard, and 6 typed letters signed, by Wilmarth Sheldon ("Lefty") Lewis, a Horace Walpole collector and scholar, addressed to Dr. Herbert C. Moffitt in San Francisco. Letters are without envelopes, except for one. The correspondence ranges from 1962 to 1976 and is personal and chatty, touching on social and professional matters and coordination (such as dinners and meetings/conferences). All but one of the letters are on Lewis's letterhead marked Farmington, Connecticut, where the Yale University Lewis Walpole Library resides. The letters are accompanied by a catalog by John C. Riley, The Age of Horace Walpole in Caricature: An Exhibition of Satirical Prints and Drawings from the Collection of W. S. Lewis, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, October-December 1973, Yale University Press, 1973. Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis was born in Alameda, California in 1895, attended the Thatcher School in Ojai, and graduated from Yale University in 1918. After Yale, he started collecting books and became fascinated with/collected all things related to writer and man of letters Horace Walpole (1717-1797). Lewis edited The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence.