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Law informs Hench that he has offered to loan the Cornwell painting for the Fourth International Congress on Tropical Medicine.

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Hench informs Lyons that he will get photostats or photographs of the items that Lyons has requested for the Hall of Fame program. He suggests she contact Kean or Siler to obtain better copies of Reed's birthplace. He also suggests that she write to the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and ask for their Reed photos. He is not certain he will be able to attend the ceremony.

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...

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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Roley writes that he is delighted to send the original Cornwell painting for the Fourth International Congress on Tropical Medicine. He notes in a postscript that the painting should probably be sent to Dart, and so will send him a copy of this letter.

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Lyons clears up some confusion about which items she wanted Hench to send for the Hall of Fame program. Howard will be invited to the ceremony, and she hopes he can come. She regrets that Hench will be unable to attend.

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Hench relates his attempts to locate an aerial photograph of Marianao. Hench thanks McFarland for the suggestion to write the American Geographic Society and asks McFarland if he thinks Hench should correspond with the Pan-American office, in New York.

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Hench thanks Wyllie for the clipping from the University of Virginia Alumni News, but is disturbed that Cooke's name did not appear in the abstract since he is an alumnus of the University of Virginia. Hench mentions his invitation to give his Walter Reed speech before the Albemarle County Historical Society.

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Benjamin tells Hench that the New York Academy of Medicine has taken possession of the correspondence relating to Curie's visit to the United States.

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Minor invites Hench to give his lecture on Walter Reed to the Albemarle County Historical Society.

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Clemons will fulfill Hench's request to have items photographed and mailed to Lyons.

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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Hench writes that it is very kind of Roley and Law to offer Cornwell's painting “The Conquerors of Yellow Fever” for the Fourth International Congress on Tropical Medicine.

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Hench thanks Law for allowing the exhibition of Cornwell's painting at the Fourth International Congress of Tropical Medicine.

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Dart informs Hench which items from his collection they would like for the exhibit at the Fourth International Congress of Tropical Diseases. The central panel of the exhibit will be Cornwell's painting, “The Conquerors of Yellow Fever.” A search has been instituted in the Surgeon General's Library for translations of Finlay's papers.

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Hench informs Lyons that it has taken him longer than he anticipated to organize his materials for the Hall of Fame ceremony.

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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Lyons informs Hench that the Metropolitan Life Co. will provide photographs of Reed's birthplace and the Walter Reed Hospital. She has ordered additional copies for him.

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Hench suggests several ways to write the courtesy line for items loaned by Emilie Lawrence Reed for the Hall of Fame program. He inquires about Lawrence Reed's time at Pinar del Rio.

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Lawrence Reed makes a suggestion for the form of the courtesy line for items loaned by his mother for the Hall of Fame program. He informs Hench that he was not stationed at Pinar del Rio.