Handwritten outgoing correspondence from Robert Ridgway to Father (David Ridgway), January 19, 1869. This letter was sent from the Smithsonian Institution and it discussed specimen collecting done the previous year on the survey.
Teenagers -- Correspondence; Ridgway, Robert, 1850-1929 -- Correspondence; Ornithologists -- Correspondence; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel; Geological Survey (U.S.)