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Box 62

 Container

Contains 256 Results:

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to Jessie Daniel Ames,  March 21, 1929

 Item — Box: 62, Folder: 74
Identifier: 06274006
Scope and Contents

Kean responds to Ames' inquiry about the pension bill and offers reasons why Roger Ames is not included.

Dates:  March 21, 1929
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Jefferson Randolph Kean

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to John J. Moran,  May 14, 1929

 Item — Box: 62, Folder: 74
Identifier: 06274007
Scope and Contents

Kean describes to Moran the attempts made to expand the list of people qualified for yellow fever pensions, and explains how the criteria were set.

Dates:  May 14, 1929
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Jefferson Randolph Kean

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  July 1, 1929

 Item — Box: 62, Folder: 74
Identifier: 06274008
Scope and Contents

Kean congratulates Emilie Lawrence Reed on the establishment of her annuity.

Dates:  July 1, 1929
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Jefferson Randolph Kean

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to Mabel H. Lazear,  August 14, 1929

 Item — Box: 62, Folder: 74
Identifier: 06274011
Scope and Contents

Kean seeks donations of artifacts or letters of Jesse Lazear for the Vanderbilt University Medical Museum.

Dates:  August 14, 1929
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Jefferson Randolph Kean

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to Aristides Agramonte,  August 22, 1929

 Item — Box: 62, Folder: 74
Identifier: 06274012
Scope and Contents

Kean inquires about Agramonte's father and explains the delay of Agramonte's medal and pension, approved in February 1929.

Dates:  August 22, 1929
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Jefferson Randolph Kean

Letter from Aristides Agramonte to Jefferson Randolph Kean,  August 25, 1929

 Item — Box: 62, Folder: 74
Identifier: 06274014
Scope and Contents

Agramonte writes to Kean about his family, the pension delay, and his health.

Dates:  August 25, 1929
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Jefferson Randolph Kean

Notes of an interview with Jefferson Randolph Kean,  October 21, 1929

 Item — Box: 62, Folder: 74
Identifier: 06274016
Scope and Contents

The interview centers on Kean's reluctance to give credit to the work done by Roger Ames during the yellow fever experiments.

Dates:  October 21, 1929
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Jefferson Randolph Kean

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to Jessie Daniel Ames,  November 5, 1929

 Item — Box: 62, Folder: 74
Identifier: 06274018
Scope and Contents

Kean informs Jessie Ames that physicians other than Roger Ames treated yellow fever patients at Camp Lazear.

Dates:  November 5, 1929
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Jefferson Randolph Kean

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to Jesse Daniel Ames,  December 9, 1929

 Item — Box: 62, Folder: 74
Identifier: 06274019
Scope and Contents

Kean does not believe that Roger Ames had yellow fever, in 1901.

Dates:  December 9, 1929
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Jefferson Randolph Kean

Letter from Hermann Hagedorn to Jefferson Randolph Kean,  December 20, 1929

 Item — Box: 62, Folder: 74
Identifier: 06274020
Scope and Contents

Hagedorn relates a conversation with General McCoy concerning Wood's announcement of the Yellow Fever Commission's findings, in 1900. He also comments on Gorgas' sanitary work in Havana.

Dates:  December 20, 1929
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Jefferson Randolph Kean

Memorandum from Albert E. Truby to Jefferson Randolph Kean,  July 25, 1930

 Item — Box: 62, Folder: 75
Identifier: 06275005
Scope and Contents

Truby's recounts his memories of the yellow fever experiments, and his anger with Agramonte for making what he feels are unjustified claims.

Dates:  July 25, 1930
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Albert E. Truby and Jefferson Randolph Kean

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to Frank R. McCoy,  January 11, 1932

 Item — Box: 62, Folder: 76
Identifier: 06276001
Scope and Contents

Kean congratulates McCoy on his appointment to Manchuria and comments on Hagedorn's biography of Leonard Wood.

Dates:  January 11, 1932
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Jefferson Randolph Kean

Letter from Frances F. Agramonte to Jefferson Randolph Kean,  February 1, 1932

 Item — Box: 62, Folder: 76
Identifier: 06276002
Scope and Contents

Frances Agramonte gives Kean her new address and discusses her health.

Dates:  February 1, 1932
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Jefferson Randolph Kean

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to John J. Moran,  June 18, 1934

 Item — Box: 62, Folder: 77
Identifier: 06277001
Scope and Contents

Kean thanks Moran for sending him his immunity certificate signed by the Yellow Fever Board members. Kean comments on the political situation in Cuba.

Dates:  June 18, 1934
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Letters from Jefferson Randolph Kean to John J. Moran

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to John J. Moran,  July 24, 1934

 Item — Box: 62, Folder: 77
Identifier: 06277002
Scope and Contents

Kean accepts Moran's offer to send him his yellow fever clinical chart and comments on conditions in Cuba and the U.S.

Dates:  July 24, 1934
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Letters from Jefferson Randolph Kean to John J. Moran

Letter from Albert E. Truby to Jefferson Randolph Kean,  April 8, 1935

 Item — Box: 62, Folder: 78
Identifier: 06278001
Scope and Contents

Truby writes to Kean concerning a bust of Reed.

Dates:  April 8, 1935
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Albert E. Truby and Jefferson Randolph Kean

Letter from the Smithsonian Institution to Jefferson Randolph Kean,  April 10, 1935

 Item — Box: 62, Folder: 78
Identifier: 06278002
Scope and Contents

This is an invoice to Kean for the return of a marble bust of Reed from the Smithsonian Institution to the Walter Reed Memorial Association.

Dates:  April 10, 1935
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Albert E. Truby and Jefferson Randolph Kean

Letter from Chauncey B. Baker to Jefferson Randolph Kean,  April 15, 1935

 Item — Box: 62, Folder: 78
Identifier: 06278003
Scope and Contents

Baker sends Kean his recollections of yellow fever work in Havana from 1898 to 1900.

Dates:  April 15, 1935
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Albert E. Truby and Jefferson Randolph Kean

Recollections of Personal Experiences in Connection with the Yellow Fever Epidemics in Havana 1898-1899-1900, related by General Chauncey B. Baker,  November 5, 1934

 Item — Box: 62, Folder: 78
Identifier: 06278004
Scope and Contents

Baker's recollections of yellow fever in Havana from 1898 to 1900 include a description of deaths among the American military officers.

Dates:  November 5, 1934
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Albert E. Truby and Jefferson Randolph Kean

Memorandum from Albert E. Truby to Colonel Meehan,  July 26, 1935

 Item — Box: 62, Folder: 78
Identifier: 06278018
Scope and Contents

Truby's memorandum and attached documents concern the marble bust of Walter Reed that was removed from the Smithsonian Institution and placed at the Walter Reed Army Hospital.

Dates:  July 26, 1935
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Albert E. Truby and Jefferson Randolph Kean