Call Number:

C0425

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 21 boxes
• 9.1 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Archery Papers of Robert P. Elmer, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1914-1952 (inclusive)

Creator:

Elmer, Robert P. (Robert Potter), 1877-1951.

Form:

Archers -- United States., Manuscripts -- 20th century., photographs -- 20th century., and Scrapbooks -- 20th century

Abstract:

Consists of manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, and printed matter of Archery Hall of Fame member Robert P. Elmer (Princeton Class of 1899) related to archery.

A graduate of Princeton University (1899), Robert P. Elmer was an American archery champion who authored a number of books on the sport. In 1973 he was inducted into the Archery Hall of Fame in Springfield, Missouri.

The collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, and printed matter of Elmer (Princeton Class of 1899). The collection contains manuscripts of two books, Archery (1939) and Arab Archery (1945)--the latter of which was translated from a 1500 A.D. manuscript by Nabih Amin Faris and edited by Elmer--and various articles about archery. The correspondence includes letters about the United Bowmen of Philadelphia, an archery club, as well as general correspondence with friends and associates relating to archery. In addition, there is a bound, typed manuscript of an "Account of the Annual Shooting for the Antient Shooting Arrow, Commonly called the Scorton Arrow from 1673-1906" sent to Elmer by Capet Pownall, a fellow archer in England.