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Laura Carter sends Welch quotations expressing Henry Carter's final conclusions on L. icteroides.

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Pope thanks Laura Carter for Henry Carter's notes. He is impressed that Carter had theorized a living host as an explanation of the extrinsic incubation of yellow fever before this had been proven.

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Laura Carter provides Phalen with biographical information on Henry Carter and describes his temperament.

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[Frost's?] notes describe Carter's study of yellow fever incubation periods prior to Reed's experiments.

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[Laura Carter] sends Phalen notes on Henry Carter and his work. She notes that Henry Carter excluded his living host theory from his 1900 article for fear that such speculation would make the article less acceptable.

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Phalen returns Laura Carter's manuscripts and sends his revised biographical sketch of Henry Rose Carter.

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Phalen's biographical sketch describes H.R. Carter's family, education, career, appearance, and personality.

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Townsend relates family news to Laura Carter. She sends a clipping on great names in preventive medicine, including Henry Carter.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series II. Henry Rose Carter consists of materials relating to Henry Rose Carter that Philip Showalter Hench collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1880 to 1932 with the bulk of the materials dating from 1883 to 1932. The series is particularly rich in materials that document Henry Rose Carter's professional activities in the last eleven years of his life (1914-1925). These materials include, but are not limited to the...

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Frost sends Laura Carter the write-up on Henry Carter done for the National Cyclopedia of American Biography.

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Laura Carter sends the editor corrections for a biographical sketch of Henry Carter.

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Russell writes that he cannot locate the report she requested.

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Laura Carter informs Russell of her progress on her father's book and reports that she has heard from Ramsey and Hayne regarding the International Health Board work.

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Barber sends Laura Carter material by her father on the history of malaria in Virginia, asking if he may use it in an article. He informs her that he will leave the Public Health Service to work for the International Health Board in Africa.

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Barber excerpts selections of recollections by Henry Rose Carter of malaria in Virginia and around Cairo, Illinois. He would like to use these selections in a publication.

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Barber thanks Laura Carter for helping adapt her father's malaria notes for a publication.

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Laura Carter writes that she is thankful the work on her father's book is complete. She comments on her financial situation and her health.

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Ramsey informs Laura Carter of his visit to an acquaintance of hers.

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[Laura Carter] discusses her health and her new living situation.

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Laura Carter sends her cousin Myron biographical material on Henry Carter, claiming that his work helped to determine the direction of Reed's.