» Dick (John Henry) correspondence, circa 1920-1995

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.