Letter from H. Friedmann to Mrs. C. Ripley

Summary

Letter from Herbert Friedmann, curator with the Division of Birds, United States National Museum, to Mrs. Constance Baillie Ripley, S. Dillon Ripley's mother, thanking her for her letter of May 21st relaying information that Dillon is faring well in Ceylon and that Smithsonian curator Herbert Deignan is with him.

Subject

• Ripley, Constance Baillie Rose
• Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
• Deignan, H. G (Herbert Girton) 1906-
• United States National Museum
• United States National Museum Dept. of Biology Division of Birds
• Office of Strategic Services

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

• Future Secretary S. Dillon Ripley, formerly assistant curator in the Division of Birds, U.S. National Museum, volunteered for service during World War II with the Office of Strategic Services, predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency. Stationed in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, he continued his ornithological passion with bird watching in his free time. Having traveled widely in the South Pacific before the war, he knew the geography, natural history and languages of the region.
• See Neg. SIA2010-0566 for Mrs. Ripley's letter

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 305, Box 899, Folder: 170221

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

May 29, 1944

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• WW II
• Animals
• Letters
• Smithsonian Institution
• Personnel management
• Collectors and collecting
• Employees
• Birds
• Museums
• World War, 1939-1945
• Museum curators
• Smithsonian Institution--Employees
• Ornithologists
• Ornithology

Place

• Sri Lanka
• Washington (D.C.)

Form/Genre

• Document
• Paper

ID Number

SIA2010-0565

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 7.84w x 10.23h; Type of Image: Document; Medium: Paper

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