The Earl Percy Visits the SI
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PrintThe Earl of Percy (Henry Alan Walter Richard Percy) comes to Washington at the invitation of Secretary S. Dillon Ripley. The Earl of Percy is related to James Smithson through the family of Smithson's father, Hugh Smithson, later Hugh Percy, the Duke of Northumberland. He is presented with two portraits of Smithson by the Smithsonian.
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 3, "The Torch," March 1981, p. 7.
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
November, 1980