Box 42
Contains 295 Results:
Letter from Antonio Perez Benitoa to Philip Showalter Hench, May 11, 1948
Letter from Frank R. McCoy to Philip Showalter Hench, May 11, 1948
McCoy thanks Hench for detailing his latest trip to Cuba. He informs Hench that Wood's daughter will not allow him to study her father's papers until she has had time to arrange them. He confirms the account of the Sternberg-Wood incidents as described in Hagedorn's biography of Leonard Wood.
Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Bertha L. Lyons, May 15, 1948
Hench discusses Cuban attitudes toward the “Reed versus Finlay” debate, and describes his reaction to a threatened protest by the Cuban delegation. Hench was careful to include Finlay items in his exhibit and slide show, and to praise Finlay in his lecture.
Letter from Estaban Valderrama y Pena to Philip Showalter Hench, May 16, 1948
Valderrama y Pena promises to copy items related to Cuban and American yellow fever experiments for Hench. He asserts that in June of 1900 nobody except Finlay and his assistant Delgado believed that mosquitoes transmitted yellow fever.
Miscellaneous notes, circa May 1948
Picture checklist from the Bettmann Archive for Philip Showalter Hench, May 21, 1948
Telegram from Bertha L. Lyons to Philip Showalter Hench, May 17, 1948
Letter from Bertha L. Lyons to Philip Showalter Hench, May 17, 1948
Lyons informs Hench that she has tried to recognize Finlay as fully as possible in the Hall of Fame event, but insists that the event honors Reed, not Finlay.
Letter from James L. Hanberry to Philip Showalter Hench, May 18, 1948
Hanberry sends Hench some news clippings concerning his participation in the yellow fever experiments.