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Hutchison sends Moran a photograph and requests that he autograph it for Hench.

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Truby thanks Hench for the clippings and program from the Lazear memorial event. He would like to have his manuscript returned soon so that he may make revisions. He reveals new information about the buildings of the yellow fever hospital and believes Lazear died in one of them.

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Hench promises to return Truby's manuscript with comments next week.

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Truby hopes to have Hench's comments on his manuscript by January 15, 1941. He would like to hear about the Washington and Jefferson College memorial events.

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Hench promises to send Truby memorabilia on the Washington and Jefferson College events and to start working on Truby's manuscript.

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Sigerist would like to publish Hench's lecture on the history of the Yellow Fever Commission in Johns Hopkins University's "Bulletin of the History of Medicine."

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Berkson writes that he was impressed by Hench's lecture on the yellow fever experiments. He thinks Hench's paper should be published in Johns Hopkins University's "Bulletin of the History of Medicine."

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Hench writes that he would like to give his talk on the yellow fever experiments at the University of Virginia. He believes this would help him to raise money for a memorial at Camp Lazear.

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Horton agrees to facilitate an invitation for Hench to give his lecture on the yellow fever experiments at the University of Virginia..

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The Mayo Clinic newspaper includes an announcement of an upcoming illustrated speech by Hench concerning his yellow fever research.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench primarily consists of materials that Hench created or collected while researching the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. Items in this series date from around 1850 to around 1865 with the bulk of the items dating from 1937 to 1960. Researchers who are studying the yellow fever experiments will be particularly interested in the materials (e.g. interviews, autobiographies) that document first-hand accounts of the events surrounding the experiments. Other...

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McClain will follow Hench's suggestion of making still photographs from the film produced during the dedication ceremony of the Lazear Building at Washington and Jefferson College.

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Hench acknowledges the return of his films and would like extra footage if McClain has any.

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Brewer promises to send Hench photographs taken at the Lazear memorial event. He claims that he never received the autographed photographs of Moran and Kissinger.

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Hench thanks Brewer for the photographs of the Lazear memorial event. He regrets the trouble over the missing Moran and Kissinger photographs, but is certain that he sent them to Brewer.

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McClain has sent Hench copies of the Lazear Memorial Building dedication booklet.

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Hench's Kissinger and Moran photographs cannot be found. Hutchison has requested new autographed photographs from both men.

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Hench wants to pay for duplicate photographs of Moran and Kissinger. He has not yet received the other photographs or the souvenir booklets from the Lazear memorial event. Hench regrets that there is no photograph of himself receiving his honorary degree [from Washington and Jefferson College].

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Hutchinson informs Hench that his off-handed remark was taken literally by McClain and has been printed in a Washington and Jefferson publication.

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Hench writes that he is embarrassed that his off-handed comment appeared in a Washington and Jefferson College publication. He begs Hutchison to stop distribution and have it corrected, at Hench's expense.