Letter from Herbert Friedmann to Mrs. Baillie Ripley
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Creator: Friedmann, Herbert 1900-1987
Form/Genre: Document
Date: July 1, 1943
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 305, Box 899, Folder: 170221
US National Museum Curator of Birds Herbert Friedmann writes to Mrs. Baillie Ripley, S. Dillon Ripley's mother, enclosing mail, which seems non-urgent, sent to the Smithsonian's National Museum for her son.
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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, 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
July 1, 1943
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