Philip B. Sharpe Correspondence

Philip Burdette Sharpe 1903-
Oliver Leigh Hall 1870-1946
Maine State Library

Entries include brief biographical information, typed letters from the firearms editor of Outdoors magazine on technical division stationery including a list of pseudonyms such as Dan Marshall with a print image of Sharpe tinted in blue, accounts of trips to national gun matches, tours of arms plants, a book gift for Governor Barrows, and an offer for Mc Leod to visit his Portland, Maine, office, Sharpe's request from his publisher for quotes from Hall about his book on stationery affixed with a "Help Restore Our Wildlife" stamp with an image of a beaver, and a typed letter on National Sportsman, Inc., Publishers, stationery where Sharpe joined in as arms and ammunition editor and with hopes of making experimental films for the publications of National Sportsman and Hunting and Fishing,purportedly the "Founders of skeet." Date Range: 1937/1938

Abstract

Entries include brief biographical information, typed letters from the firearms editor of Outdoors magazine on technical division stationery including a list of pseudonyms such as Dan Marshall with a print image of Sharpe tinted in blue, accounts of trips to national gun matches, tours of arms plants, a book gift for Governor Barrows, and an offer for Mc Leod to visit his Portland, Maine, office, Sharpe's request from his publisher for quotes from Hall about his book on stationery affixed with a "Help Restore Our Wildlife" stamp with an image of a beaver, and a typed letter on National Sportsman, Inc., Publishers, stationery where Sharpe joined in as arms and ammunition editor and with hopes of making experimental films for the publications of National Sportsman and Hunting and Fishing, purportedly the "Founders of skeet."