Letter from Mrs. C. B. Ripley to Herbert Friedmann
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Creator: Ripley, Constance Baillie Rose
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Date: August 26, 1943
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 305, Box 899, Folder: 170221
Letter from Mrs. Constance Baillie Ripley, S. Dillon Ripley's mother, to US National Museum curator of birds Herbert Friedmann enclosing a letter from Dillon and a list and asks for the letter to be returned. She mentions that she has received many cheerful letters from Dillon.
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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 (OSS), predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency. Stationed in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, he continued his ornithological passion with bird field studies 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.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 305, Box 899, Folder: 170221
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
August 26, 1943
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