Correspondence c. 1920-1995.

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Correspondence c. 1920-1995.

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The largest group of correspondence relates to the preparation of a book on the birds of India and includes numerous letters from King, Ali, Ripley, and David A. Ferguson. The other principal correspondents are Coleman (with typescripts of Coleman's articles on the pivotal 1956 safari that he and Dick went together on to East Africa); De Schauensee; Garrity, friend and President of Devin-Adair Co., Publishers, which published five books with illustrations by Dick including "Other Edens;" the International Crane Foundation (of which Dick was a board member); Sidney P. Downey, friend and partner in Ker & Downey Safaris, Ltd.; Roger Tory Peterson, friend and author of field guides; Keith Shackleton, artist; and Alexander Sprunt, Jr., friend, ornithologist, and author of several books which Dick illustrated. Dick rarely kept copies of the letters he wrote.

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College of Charleston, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library

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College of Charleston, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library

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Garrity, Devin A.

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American publisher; president, Devin-Adair Company, 1939-1981. From the description of Devin A. Garrity papers, 1909-1981. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754871904 Biographical/Historical Note American publisher; president, Devin-Adair Company, 1939-1981. From the guide to the Devin A. Garrity papers, 1909-1981, (Hoover Institution Archives) ...

Downey, Sidney P.

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Sprunt, Alexander, 1928-

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Dick, John Henry, 1919-1995

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"Artist Naturalist" is how Dick described himself in his autobiographical book entitled "Other Edens" (1979). He established a reputation as one of the leading bird painters in the United States when he illustrated the "Warblers of America" (edited by Ludlow Griscom and Alexander Sprunt, Jr., 1957). He painted approximately 2,500 separate birds for the "Pictorial Guide to the Birds of the Indian Subcontinent" with text by Salim Ali and S. Dillon Ripley (1983). He painted about 600 birds for the ...

Ali, Sálim, 1896-1987.

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Ripley, S. Dillon (Sidney Dillon), 1913-2001

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S. Dillon Ripley (b. September 20, 1913, New York City, NY - d. March 12, 2001, Washington, D.C.), an ornithologist, served as the eighth Secretary of the Smithsonian from 1964 to 1984, and oversaw tremendous growth. Interested in natural history and exploration since his childhood, Ripley visited the remote nation of Ladakh when he was only thirteen years old. After graduate school, he was a curator at the Smithsonian briefly and then spent almost twenty years teaching at Yale University. He le...

King, Ben F.

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Peterson, Roger Tory, 1908-1996.

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