Letter to Miss Kirkpatrick
Object Details
- 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 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.
- Summary
- S. Dillon Ripley writes to Miss Kirkpatrick that he wishes after Wednesday the 24th she hold his mail because he will be at a different address. Also after Saturday the 27th he will try to get in to pick up any mail.
- 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
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Date
- June 22, 1942
- Standard number
- SIA2010-0590
- Author
- Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
- Subject
- United States National Museum
- Office of Strategic Services
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Document
- Paper
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 1; Color: Back and white; Size: 4.94w 7.97h; Type of Image: Document; Medium: Paper
- Topic
- World War, 1939-1945
- Smithsonian Institution--Employees
- Letters
- Postal service
- Record ID
- siris_sic_14726
