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Box 40

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Contains 242 Results:

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to [Adrian] Macia,  November 13, 1944

 Item — Box: 40, Folder: 50
Identifier: 04050010
Scope and Contents

Hench is worried about the condition of Building No. 1. He does not want it to suffer the fate of its companion building which crashed in a hurricane. Hench is thinking about erecting an outer protective shell, and is wondering how much it would cost.

Dates:  November 13, 1944
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Correspondence and other materials relating to the preservation of the surviving building at Camp Lazear

Miscellaneous notes,  circa 1944

 Item — Box: 40, Folder: 50
Identifier: 04050011
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...
Dates:  circa 1944
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Correspondence and other materials relating to the preservation of the surviving building at Camp Lazear

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Domingo F. Ramos,  November 13, 1944

 Item — Box: 40, Folder: 50
Identifier: 04050013
Scope and Contents

Hench offers to lend Ramos some of his slides which deal with the yellow fever experiments. He also offers financial help to protect Building No. 1 and requests Ramos' assistance in organizing this effort.

Dates:  November 13, 1944
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Correspondence and other materials relating to the preservation of the surviving building at Camp Lazear

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Jose A. Presno,  December 6, 1944

 Item — Box: 40, Folder: 50
Identifier: 04050015
Scope and Contents

Hench discusses his efforts to memorialize Camp Lazear. He makes clear that he is not interested in arguing who deserves the greatest honor. He expresses hope that this venture will lead to a closer ties between Cuba and the United States.

Dates:  December 6, 1944
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Correspondence and other materials relating to the preservation of the surviving building at Camp Lazear

Letter from Avery S. Hoyt to Philip Showalter Hench,  December 30, 1944

 Item — Box: 40, Folder: 50
Identifier: 04050017
Scope and Contents

Hoyt provides information on how to protect Building No. 1 from the effects of weathering and the attack of termites.

Dates:  December 30, 1944
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Correspondence and other materials relating to the preservation of the surviving building at Camp Lazear

Letter from Luis Espinosa y G. Caceras to Philip Showalter Hench,  January 10, 1945

 Item — Box: 40, Folder: 52
Identifier: 04052001
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...
Dates:  January 10, 1945
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous correspondence of Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from William Easton Hutchison to Philip Showalter Hench,  January 12, 1945

 Item — Box: 40, Folder: 52
Identifier: 04052002
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...
Dates:  January 12, 1945
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous correspondence of Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Arthur R. Altick,  January 15, 1945

 Item — Box: 40, Folder: 52
Identifier: 04052003
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...
Dates:  January 15, 1945
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous correspondence of Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Nancy Lybarger,  January 15, 1945

 Item — Box: 40, Folder: 52
Identifier: 04052004
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...
Dates:  January 15, 1945
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous correspondence of Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to William Easton Hutchison,  January 26, 1945

 Item — Box: 40, Folder: 52
Identifier: 04052005
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...
Dates:  January 26, 1945
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous correspondence of Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Arthur R. Altick,  February 17, 1945

 Item — Box: 40, Folder: 54
Identifier: 04054001
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...
Dates:  February 17, 1945
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous correspondence and notes of Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Luis Espinosa y G. Caceres,  February 26, 1945

 Item — Box: 40, Folder: 54
Identifier: 04054002
Scope and Contents

Hench accepts the appointment to become the Director of the Division of Medical Relations and Pan-American Sanitation of the Finlay Institute.

Dates:  February 26, 1945
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous correspondence and notes of Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Domingo F. Ramos,  February 26, 1945

 Item — Box: 40, Folder: 54
Identifier: 04054003
Scope and Contents

Hench, believing that Ramos sponsored his appointment to the Finlay Institute, thanks him for his support.

Dates:  February 26, 1945
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous correspondence and notes of Philip Showalter Hench

English translation [from Spanish] of a letter from Luis Espinosa y G. Caceres to Philip Showalter Hench,  March 15, 1945

 Item — Box: 40, Folder: 54
Identifier: 04054004
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...
Dates:  March 15, 1945
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous correspondence and notes of Philip Showalter Hench

Notes of Philip Showalter Hench,  circa February 1945

 Item — Box: 40, Folder: 54
Identifier: 04054005
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...
Dates:  circa February 1945
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous correspondence and notes of Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Domingo F. Ramos,  March 31, 1945

 Item — Box: 40, Folder: 55
Identifier: 04055001
Scope and Contents

Hench writes that, due to a translation error, he was under the assumption that he had been appointed to a directorial position at the Finlay Institute. He is very embarrassed about the total affair.

Dates:  March 31, 1945
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous correspondence of Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Luis Espinosa y G. Caceres,  March 31, 1945

 Item — Box: 40, Folder: 55
Identifier: 04055002
Scope and Contents

Hench attempts to explain how he came to misunderstand Espinosa's letter. Espinosa's letter, in Spanish, was not translated correctly. Hench assures him that he will cooperate with him and his work in the Finlay Institute.

Dates:  March 31, 1945
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous correspondence of Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Luis Espinosa y G. Caceres to Philip Showalter Hench,  January 10, 1945

 Item — Box: 40, Folder: 55
Identifier: 04055003
Scope and Contents

Espinosa writes to Hench that he (Espinosa) has been appointed Director of Panamerican Doctors (Director de la Division de Relaciones Medicas y Sanitarias Panamericanas) at the Finlay Institute. Espinosa hopes that cooperation will continue between scientists in the United States and in Cuba.

Dates:  January 10, 1945
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous correspondence of Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Luis Espinosa y G. Caceres to Philip Showalter Hench,  March 15, 1945

 Item — Box: 40, Folder: 55
Identifier: 04055004
Scope and Contents

Espinosa apologizes to Hench for the misunderstanding regarding Espinosa's letter of January 10, 1945, in which Hench mistakenly believed that he (Hench) had been appointed Director of Panamerican Doctors (Director de la Division de Relaciones Medicas y Sanitarias Panamericanas) at the Finlay Institute. Espinosa expresses his hope that Hench will continue to work closely with scientists in Cuba.

Dates:  March 15, 1945
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous correspondence of Philip Showalter Hench

English translation [from Spanish] of letter from [Luis Espinosa y G. Caceres] to [Philip Showalter Hench],  March 15, 1945

 Item — Box: 40, Folder: 55
Identifier: 04055005
Scope and Contents

This is a rough translation of [Espinosa's] letter, in which he apologizes to Hench for the misunderstanding regarding Espinosa's letter of January 10, 1945, in which Hench mistakenly believed that he (Hench) had been appointed Director of Panamerican Doctors (Director de la Division de Relaciones Medicas y Sanitarias Panamericanas) at the Finlay Institute. [Espinosa] expresses his hope that Hench will continue to work closely with scientists in Cuba.

Dates:  March 15, 1945
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous correspondence of Philip Showalter Hench