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letters (correspondence)

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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Pieces of correspondence that are somewhat more formal than memoranda or notes, usually on paper and delivered.

Found in 6939 Collections and/or Records:

Letter from [Jefferson Randolph Kean] to C. H. Ellis,  June 18, 1909

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 37
Identifier: 06237001
Scope and Contents

[Kean] informs Ellis about the military service of John R. Kissinger and gives details of Kissinger's participation in the yellow fever experiments. Included is a note by Truby. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  June 18, 1909
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to Caroline Latimer,  circa January 28, 1903

 Item — Box 26: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 63
Identifier: 02663001
Scope and Contents

Kean encourages Kelly to support the pension bill with a letter to the Washington Post.

Dates:  circa January 28, 1903
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to Charles Edward Magoon,  October 31, 1907

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 21
Identifier: 06221001
Scope and Contents

Kean sends Magoon the report of the Chief Sanitary Officer of Cuba for the past year and comments extensively on sanitation and the yellow fever.

Dates:  October 31, 1907
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to David L. Edsall,  January 9, 1925

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 69
Identifier: 06269006
Scope and Contents

Kean confirms that Kissinger was a volunteer in the yellow fever experiments.

Dates:  January 9, 1925
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 Domingo F. Ramos,  November 22, 1944

 Item — Box 64: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 3
Identifier: 06403088
Scope and Contents

Kean discusses Finlay's mosquito theory and Reed's research.

Dates:  November 22, 1944
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, Jefferson Randolph Kean, and Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to Domingo Ramos,  March 6, 1941

 Item — Box 63: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 2
Identifier: 06302018
Scope and Contents

Kean assures Ramos that Hench is correct about the location of Camp Lazear, and gives a little of his own history in Cuba to indicate that he himself has knowledge of the places.

Dates:  March 6, 1941
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, Jefferson Randolph Kean, and Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to D.S. Lamb,  October 24, 1927

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 71
Identifier: 06271031
Scope and Contents

Kean thanks Lamb for information on Reed's last days.

Dates:  October 24, 1927
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: Series uva-lib:2229588, 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 Emilie Lawrence Reed,  January 17, 1924

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 51
Identifier: 06251001
Scope and Contents

Kean informs Emilie Lawrence Reed that his son Robert is graduating from MIT in chemistry. He discusses the role of Sternberg and Gorgas with the Yellow Fever Commission.

Dates:  January 17, 1924
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  April 2, 1924

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 53
Identifier: 06253001
Scope and Contents

Kean expresses his disapproval of the claims made by Marie Gorgas' in her biography of William Crawford Gorgas.

Dates:  April 2, 1924
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  April 11, 1924

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 55
Identifier: 06255001
Scope and Contents

Kean informs Emilie Lawrence Reed that he wrote to the editor of World's Work to dispute the claims made by Marie Gorgas as regards the Yellow Fever Commission.

Dates:  April 11, 1924
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  circa April 1924

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 59
Identifier: 06259001
Scope and Contents

Kean informs Emilie Lawrence Reed that Hendrick will print a correction to an earlier article. This letter is written at the bottom of Hendrick's letter to Kean, dated April 16, 1924. Hendrick writes that the corrections will be made and regrets any offense given Emilie Lawrence Reed.

Dates:  circa April 1924
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  May 6, 1924

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 66
Identifier: 06266001
Scope and Contents

Kean informs Emilie Lawrence Reed that the manuscript of Gorgas' biography might be corrected to reflect Reed's role. He will retire to Washington this summer.

Dates:  May 6, 1924
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  June 17, 1929

 Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 85
Identifier: 03185001
Scope and Contents

Kean asks Emilie Lawrence Reed to supply the dates and locations of her birth and marriage.

Dates:  June 17, 1929
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Letters from Jefferson Randolph Kean to Emilie Lawrence Reed

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  June 20, 1929

 Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 85
Identifier: 03185003
Scope and Contents

Kean sends Emilie Lawrence Reed a copy of the new Secretary of War's speech, given at West Point.

Dates:  June 20, 1929
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Letters from Jefferson Randolph Kean to Emilie Lawrence Reed

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  August 14, 1929

 Item — Box 32: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 5
Identifier: 03205001
Scope and Contents

Kean vouches for Harrison and urges Emilie Lawrence Reed to make a donation to Vanderbilt University.

Dates:  August 14, 1929
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to F.H. Beach with related military orders,  February 21, 1902

 File — Box 26: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 5
Identifier: uva-lib:2224854
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series III. Walter Reed consists of materials that document the life of Walter Reed as well as the work and legacy of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. Items in the series date from 1806 to around 1955 with the bulk of the items dating from 1874 to 1936. The series is particularly rich in materials that document the professional and personal life of Walter Reed from 1874 to his death in 1902. These materials include, but are not limited to the following:...
Dates:  February 21, 1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

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

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, 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 Jefferson Randolph Kean to Frederick F. Russell,  October 27, 1927

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 71
Identifier: 06271035
Scope and Contents

Kean expresses his continued interest in the status of yellow fever investigations, experimentation on monkeys, and Carter's book on the history of yellow fever.

Dates:  October 27, 1927
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 George A. Kellogg,  March 27, 1941

 Item — Box 59: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 6
Identifier: 05906073
Scope and Contents

Kean criticizes the sketches for the Cornwell painting and discusses the anti-Reed sentiment in Cuba.

Dates:  March 27, 1941
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VI. Alphabetical files / Materials relating to George A. Kellogg