The Three Princes of Serendip course, there is a happy ending. The fairy tale "The Three Princes of Serendip" is based upon the life of Persian King Bahram V, who ruled the Sassanid Empire (420–440). Stories of his rule are told in epic poetry of the region (Firdausi's "Shahnameh" of 1010, Nizami's "Haft Paykar" of 1197, Khusrau's Hasht Bihisht of 1302), parts of which are based upon historical facts with embellishments derived from folklore going back hundreds of years to oral traditions in India and "The Book of One Thousand and One Nights". With the exception of the well-known camel story, English translations are very
Lewis Walpole Library Lewis Walpole Library The Lewis Walpole Library in Farmington, Connecticut, possesses important collections of eighteenth-century British literary remains, including an unrivalled quantity of Horace Walpole's papers and effects from his estate at Strawberry Hill. The collections include eighteenth-century British books, manuscripts, prints, drawings and paintings, as well as important examples of the decorative arts. It was gathered by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis (1895–1979, himself a graduate of Yale in 1918) and his wife Annie Burr Lewis (1902–1959) in a group of eighteenth-century buildings at Farmington. The Lewis Walpole Library was presented to Yale University, of whose Library it forms a department.