Newsletters from 2000 to 2008 are now available to read online or download. The Library's newsletter, published four times a year, features articles on current and historic issues, book reviews, and information on library collections, activities and services. All donors to the Library of $50 and above will receive the newsletter.
For more information on the newsletter, contact newsletter editor Elizabeth Tobey at 540-687-6542 x 11 or etobey@nsl.org.
SPRING 2008
The lead story of the spring issue is the planning of the Museum of Sporting Art at Vine Hill. The issue includes articles about recent bequests and donations of art to the NSL, the acquisition of a rare 16th-century hunting text by the Flemish artist Johannes Stradanus, a profile of John H. Daniels Fellow Noel Mullins, and a tribute to longtime volunteer, George Hottel.
WINTER 2007/2008
The announcement of the 2007-2008 John H. Daniels Fellows is the lead story of this issue, including a profile of Elizabeth Redkey and her research on the U.S. Remount Service. This issue also features news about the planning of the Museum of Sporting Art at Vine Hill, new NSL staff members, the Munnings symposium, and a tribute to Eve Prime Fout (1929-2007).
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- FALL 2007
- The 2007 Coaching Weekend, in all its splendor and pageantry, is the focus of this issue. Twenty-six four-in-hand coaches from around the country participated in what turned out to be a glorious weekend of events, ranging from receptions at the Library and private lunches to the Saturday evening Coaching Gala at Llangollen, where Peter Duchin kept guests swirling to jazz tunes.
- SUMMER 2007
- This annual donors' issue covers the Brooks McCormick bequest of more than 500 sporting books to the Library. This Chicago philanthropist was the consummate sportsman, and the NSL is grateful for such rare titles at a 1904 edition of Master of Game, one of 10 special folio-size editions, after an original 14th century manuscript by Edward, Second Duke of York.
- SPRING 2007
- Read about the extraordinary exhibition of paintings by Sir Alfred Munnings, on view at the Library until March 2008. The exhibition "Reflections on a Life with Horses" is part of an international effort celebrating the centennial of Paul Mellon's birth.
- WINTER 2007
- In this issue the National Sporting Library inaugurates the John H. Daniels Fellowship, with Elizabeth Tobey as its first Fellow.
- FALL 2006
- The magnificent collection of books once belonging to Capt. Vladimir S. Littauer is featured in this newsletter. In the summer 2004 issue, Paul Cronin wrote an outstanding biography of this consummate horseman (see below).
- SUMMER 2006
- Sport enthusiasts Dean and Louise Bedford built a collection of books with titles that aptly reflected the passions that drove them--there are titles on foxhunting, beagling, driving, steeplechase, terrier showing and breeding. Thanks to the generosity of Cricket and Deane Bedford, the NSL now has these impressive sporting books catalogued on its shelves.
- SPRING 2006
- At a competitive Sotheby's auction, the Library successfully bid on sporting books once the property of His Royal Highness, the Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, thanks to the generosity of an NSL board member.
- WINTER 2006
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- FALL 2005
SUMMER 2005
SPRING 2005
WINTER 2005
FALL 2004
- SUMMER 2004
- Read Paul Cronin's excellent article on Capt. Vladimir S. Littauer, whose collection was donated to the NSL in 2006 by his heirs, Andrew and Anna Littauer.
- SPRING 2004
WINTER 2004
FALL 2003
SUMMER 2003
SPRING 2003
WINTER 2003
Wallace Nall Retropective
SUMMER 2002
SPRING 2002
WINTER 2002
Sporting
Silhouettes: the Mellon Weather Vane Collection
FALL 2002
Sojourn:
Mellon Art on Loan from Yale
McBean
Grant Expands Shooting Collection
- SUMMER 2002
- Origin
of the Warhorse
- The
Importance of the Scholarship Endowment Fund
- SPRING 2002
- Felicia
Warburg Rogan Sporting Art Initiative
- FALL 2001
- Inspired
Animation: The Art of Wesley Dennis by Lisa Campbell
- SPRING 2001
- Eve
Prime Fout's New Bronze Fox Safeguards the Library by
Lisa Campbell
- WINTER 2000
- Preserving
Our Culture by Kenneth Y. Tomlinson
- SPRING 2000
- Rare
Portraits Donated to NSL
- Foxhound
Paintings Gems of NSL's Collection by Peter Winants
- FALL 2000
- NSL
Treasures Featured In New Exhibit by Elizabeth Manierre
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