coffe breaks

The Lewis Walpole Library (the picture is actually of the Root House the other 18th century house of the complex, the one reserved to fellows and researchers) is a sort of alpha and omega of the collectors world, its name comes from the name of Horace Walpole, on of the great British collectors on first half of the 18th century and Wilmhart Sheldon Lewis an American collector passionately in love with Walpole's collection or Walpoliana. The beginning and the end of the great age of collecting? The library was his house a 18th century (what else?) house. In 1928 He and his wife (It's her in the portrait over the fireplace, she was the one with big money) built another wing, or annex, a large beautiful room, that was then calle the New Library, and has kept its name even after that another building has been recently added to house the modern library. Books have been moved and now the New Library is a place for meeting and coffee breaks.