Box 65

Truby comments on the financial records from Camp Lazear, which Hench had sent to him.

Hench appreciates Truby's analysis of the financial records from Camp Lazear.

Tate recollects his impressions about the members of the Yellow Fever Board. He encourages Truby to share his memories of Reed with Hench.

Truby describes his physical condition and also states that Finlay deserves credit for all the help he gave to Reed. He encloses a letter from John Kelly.

Kelly thanks Truby for the information he sent him about Finlay because the Universidad De Villanueva wants to honor him.

Hench informs Cornelia Kean about Truby's death. He thanks her for her help with his questionnaire. He mourns for Truby and Jefferson Randolph Kean.

Kean informs Hench that Cornelia Kean has died.

Pinto describes Reed's use of mosquitoes acquired from Finlay and the first experiments with volunteers.

Kean describes Reed's illness, death, and funeral.

[Hench] outlines details of the yellow fever investigation, including a diagram of the Board's laboratory at Columbia Barracks.

Simpson summarizes the life of Lemuel S. Reed, as he knew him through religious work, and gives an account of his death and funeral. Simpson conducted the funeral service.

Truby congratulates Hench for his work in “that most terrible of all crippling diseases,” and asks him to help block the effort of Senator Lucas to have Gustaf E. Lambert admitted to the Yellow Fever Roll of Honor. He also states that Jernegan was the bravest volunteer.

Hench explains to Kean and Truby that he has been so occupied with cortisone research that he has had no time for his Reed project. He has accepted the position of chairman of a research committee on rheumatic diseases.

Tate informs [Hench] that he was the medical records clerk at Columbia Barracks during the yellow fever experiments. He claims that Ames was the real hero and yet became the forgotten man because he was simply a contract doctor.

Tate writes that he was under Truby's command in Cuba and has read all the books about the yellow fever experiments. He maintains that Truby's is the only real, factual account and requests a copy of the book.

Hench appreciates the letters from Sternberg and Finlay. He hopes to see the Wood papers the next time he is in Washington, D.C.

Tate, having learned of Hench's work with arthritis, requests Hench's help with his own arthritic condition. He begs forgiveness for his doubts of Hench's ability to write the story of the yellow fever experiments.

Kean informs Hench that Laura Wood was at the Library of Congress looking through her father's papers and was surprised to learn that there were no diaries for 1900 and 1901. Kean has told her that Hench is trying to determine whether her father or Gorgas initiated the war against the mosquitoes.

Truby commends Hench on his work with cortisone in treating rheumatic fever, and encloses two communications he has received from men who were at Columbia Barracks during the yellow fever experiments.

Tate identifies himself to Truby and asks if it would be possible for Truby to send him a signed copy of his book about the yellow fever experiments.