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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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Hench discusses items he is sending for the Hall of Fame ceremony. Of importance are: Finlay's first paper, fever charts, the Congressional Medal awarded to Reed, remains of Building No. 1, and yellow fever volunteer contracts.

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Redd has sent Hench the Carter materials, but notes that they are not organized in any way.

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Berkeley, Curator of Manuscripts at Alderman Library, University of Virginia, encloses copies of the photostats of Reed items he has mailed to Bertha Lyons, at Hench's request, for the Hall of Fame ceremony.

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Berkeley lists the photostats of Reed items he is sending to Lyons for use in the Hall of Fame program.

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Hench informs Chavez that he has received the photographs, which Chavez sent to him.

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Hench informs MacDonald that he has returned from Cuba, where he acquired aerial photographs of Marianao from the Cuban Air Force.

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Lyons is surprised and pleased at the large number of photostats of Reed material that Hench has sent to the Hall of Fame. She discusses the use of the material and gives Hench directions to the Hall of Fame, where he will attend a ceremony.

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Hench expresses concern about the safety of material being shipped for an exhibit.

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Hench expresses concern about security issues in setting up an exhibit.

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Hench expresses concern about security issues in setting up an exhibit.

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 informs Minor that he will be pleased to give a talk on Walter Reed for the Albemarle County Historical Society. He discusses details related to arrangements and scheduling.

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Rice sends Hodges the list of hotels Indianapolis in 1900 for his review and comments on Hench's research. Hodges handwritten reply is included at the end of this letter.

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 lists the copies of Walter Reed items that have been selected from among those sent by Hench to be used in the Hall of Fame.

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Franck discusses secretarial work she has done for Hench in connection with interviews of Lawrence Reed, Kean, and Ireland.

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In connection with Hench's efforts to learn more about Reed's 1900 Indianapolis lecture, Rice sends Hench a list of hotels in the city at that date. He also encloses a letter from Rice to Fletcher Hodges, a friend and long-time Indianapolis resident, which includes Hodges' reply to Rice. Hodges has crossed out some of the hotels on the list.

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This list of hotels was compiled from the 1900 Indianapolis City Directory to determine where Walter Reed might have stayed.