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letters (correspondence)

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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 James Carroll,  August 16, 1906

 Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 40
Identifier: 02840001
Scope and Contents

Kean informs Carroll that efforts are being made for Carroll to receive some substantial recognition for his services with the Yellow Fever Commission. Included are notes by Truby. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  August 16, 1906
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 James Carroll with notes by Albert E. Truby

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to James Carroll with notes by Albert E. Truby,  circa 1906-1950

 File — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 40
Identifier: uva-lib:2225082
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:  circa 1906-1950
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 James E. Peabody,  September 22, 1928

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 72
Identifier: 06272035
Scope and Contents

Kean responds to Peabody's questions about the work of the Yellow Fever Commission, offering his view on the contributions of various men and commenting on illustrations Peabody has selected for his article.

Dates:  September 22, 1928
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 James M. Phalen,  January 29, 1943

 Item — Box 64: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 1
Identifier: 06401016
Scope and Contents

Kean states that his reference to Gorgas' Final Report should not diminish Gorgas' credibility and reputation.

Dates:  January 29, 1943
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 Jesse Daniel Ames,  December 9, 1929

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, 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 Jefferson Randolph Kean to Jessie Daniel Ames,  March 21, 1929

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, 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 Jessie Daniel Ames,  November 5, 1929

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, 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 John H. Andrus,  November 24, 1941

 Item — Box 58: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 6
Identifier: 05806058
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series VI. Alphabetical files primarily consists of materials that Philip Showalter Hench created or collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1860 to around 1966 with the bulk of the items dating from 1940 to 1956. All of these items have been arranged thematically into biographical files. Each file contains materials created by or relating to people who were either involved with the yellow fever experiments or aided Philip Showalter...
Dates:  November 24, 1941
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series VI. Alphabetical files / Materials relating to John H. Andrus

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to John J. Moran,  April 10, 1928

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 72
Identifier: 06272028
Scope and Contents

Kean informs Moran about efforts to enact pension bills for Yellow Fever Commission families and volunteers.

Dates:  April 10, 1928
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: Series uva-lib:2229588, 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 John J. Moran,  June 18, 1934

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, 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: Series uva-lib:2229588, 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 Jefferson Randolph Kean to John J. Moran,  April 12, 1938

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 82
Identifier: 06282001
Scope and Contents

Kean describes the 1900 Havana Finlay-Reed dinner, which celebrated the conclusive proof of Finlay's theory by Reed's work. He feels that Finlay has not received a fair share of the credit.

Dates:  April 12, 1938
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 John J. Moran, December 30, 1947

 Item — Box 137: Series uva-lib:2231435, Folder: 14
Identifier: uva-lib:2231449
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series XII. Houston Academy of Medicine/Texas Medical Center additions consists of materials that Philip Showalter Hench created or collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1901 to around 1966. These materials were originally a part of the Philip S. Hench papers in the John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center at the Texas Medical Center Library, but they were transferred to the University of Virginia in 1991. These...
Dates: December 30, 1947
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series XII. Houston Academy of Medicine/Texas Medical Center additions

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to John J. Moran, July 6, 1950

 Item — Box 137: Series uva-lib:2231435, Folder: 20
Identifier: uva-lib:2231455
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series XII. Houston Academy of Medicine/Texas Medical Center additions consists of materials that Philip Showalter Hench created or collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1901 to around 1966. These materials were originally a part of the Philip S. Hench papers in the John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center at the Texas Medical Center Library, but they were transferred to the University of Virginia in 1991. These...
Dates: July 6, 1950
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series XII. Houston Academy of Medicine/Texas Medical Center additions

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to John M. Morin,  April 18, 1928

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 72
Identifier: 06272018
Scope and Contents

Kean provides Morin with a comprehensive review of the yellow fever experiments. He includes the names of the personnel, their birth places, their enlistment and discharge locations, and present addresses.

Dates:  April 18, 1928
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 R. Taylor,  July 7, 1928

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 72
Identifier: 06272034
Scope and Contents

Kean thanks Taylor for the booklet on Reed.

Dates:  July 7, 1928
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 Jorge LeRoy y Cassa,  August 27, 1927

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 71
Identifier: 06271001
Scope and Contents

Kean expresses his disappointment in the competition between Cuba and America regarding the credit for the yellow fever work. According to Kean, it was Reed who demonstrated Finlay's theory and Gorgas who applied it.

Dates:  August 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 Juan Guiteras,  November 17, 1908

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 35
Identifier: 06235001
Scope and Contents

[Kean] requests additional experiments using wire mesh as a mosquito control.

Dates:  November 17, 1908
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 J.W. Amesse,  August 5, 1908

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 27
Identifier: 06227001
Scope and Contents

Kean suggests that a case of yellow fever was contracted not in Santiago di Cuba but in Daiquiri.

Dates:  August 5, 1908
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench