Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis (18951979) was a collector and writer who devoted his life to amassing the largest single collection of Walpole's papers, prints, and books, which now resides at the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale University. His books include Horace Walpole's Library and Collector's Progress.
It is Walpole the man who fascinates Mr. Lewis and who, when Mr. Lewis is done, fascinates us. * New Yorker *