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The National Sporting Library - A Research Center for Horse and Field Sports

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2008-2009 John H. Daniels Fellows

Two thousand seven marked the inaugural year for the John H. Daniels Fellowship, open to all scholars working on projects related to horse and field sports. Elizabeth Tobey served as the inaugural fellow in 2007, working on translating Federico Grisone's Gli Ordini di Cavalcare (The Rules of Riding) - the earliest book on dressage published in 1550 - from Italian into modern English. The translation will be available on the NSL's website later in 2008.

The Fellowship provides financial support to researchers in residence at the Library for periods of up to twelve months. Disciplines include history, literature, art history, anthropology, area studies, and history of science. University faculty and graduate students; museum curators and librarians; and writers and journalists are all encouraged to apply.

Please contact Elizabeth Tobey, Director of Communications and Research at etobey@nsl.org or 540-687-6542 x 11 for fellowship information. The next deadline for application will be February, 2009.

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John H. Daniels, a longtime friend and supporter of the Library, donated 5,000 books in the mid 1990s with his wife, Martha. This magnificent collection was the catalyst for the new 15,000 square-foot facility that opened in 1999.

"Here in the National Sporting Library, the scholar will find a wealth of material on the manners, mores and customs of past centuries…He has a window into the age-old interdependence and partnership between man and beast, fish and fowl."
--John H. Daniels

The National Sporting Library has more than 16,000 books in its collection, which includes horse sports, angling, beagling, falconry, dueling, blood sports, and sport shooting. Its horse sports, include works on Thoroughbred racing, foxhuting, steeplechasing, show jumping, eventing, polo, dressage, horse-drawn transportation, harness racing, and general horsemanship. Works from the 16th century onwards cover veterinary practices, horse training and care, cavalry and the horse in war, and farm management.