Harold Pearl Sheldon papers, 1920-1950.

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Harold Pearl Sheldon papers, 1920-1950.

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The papers of Colonel Harold Pearl Sheldon, 1880-1951, self described sportsman-enthusiast, consist primarily of personal correspondence and partial and complete drafts of stories on hunting, guns, and wildlife. The first series contains biographical material and assorted personal items. Also included in the collection are two different versions of a biography of Sheldon by his friend, P.P. Pitkin of Montpelier, entitled "Square Peg, Square Hole." The second series includes personal and official correspondence relating to his positions in the U.S. Bureau of Biological Survey and Fish and Wildlife Service, 1926-1940. A folder labelled "Mercer, Birsch & Capps Incident" relates to a murder trial involving federal fish and game employees and illegal duck hunters in 1927. The series also contains letters to publishers and gun manufacturers. The third series contains drawings for "Frontier Stories," gun information, publications by W.L. McAtlee and C.T. Davis, and various other materials. There are three anti-communist, anti-Jewish items from the Washington, D.C. area, an unsigned letter about Middlebury politics and (Henry A.?) Wallace, a page of a diary from 1922, and a lock of hair from Chief Wahonto of the Chickasaw Nation. The fourth series, contains articles from Sheldon's regular series "Guns and Game" and "Shooting." It also contains articles, complete and incomplete, titled and untitled, and in typescript and handwritten.

3 linear ft. (4 boxes)

Vermont Historical Society

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is a bureau within the Department of the Interior. Its mission is to work with others to conserve, protect and enhance fish, wildlife and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. A 1940 reorganization plan in the Department of the Interior consolidated the Bureau of Fisheries and the Bureau of Biological Survey into one agency to be known as the Fish and Wildlife Service. The Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife was created...

Sheldon, Harold P. (Harold Pearl), 1888-1951

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Pitkin, Perley P., 1826-1891.

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