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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 Landon Reed to Philip Showalter Hench,  April 28, 1948

 Item — Box 42: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 13
Identifier: 04213005
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...
Dates:  April 28, 1948
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Correspondence between Philip Showalter Hench and the Reed family

Letter from Landon Reed to Philip Showalter Hench,  December 22, 1947

 Item — Box 41: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 43
Identifier: 04143016
Scope and Contents

Reed thanks Hench for the candy, discusses family news, and requests a copy of Hench's talk at the University of Virginia.

Dates:  December 22, 1947
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous correspondence of Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from [Laura Armistead Carter] to A.M. Stimson,  May 6, 1923

 Item — Box 11: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 2
Identifier: 01102008
Scope and Contents

[Laura Carter] writes that Henry Carter believes that parasites do not develop in mosquitoes below 61 degrees . He believes last year's cases of malaria were caused by females that had been hibernating.

Dates:  May 6, 1923
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Correspondence of Henry Rose Carter

Letter from [Laura Armistead Carter] to [Blanton P. Seward],  December 15, 1931

 Item — Box 13: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 8
Identifier: 01308010
Scope and Contents

Laura Carter sends Seward a copy of Frost's notes on Henry Rose Carter. [not enclosed] She describes her father's opinions of Strobel's, Nott's and Bell's yellow fever research and encloses a list of Carter's yellow fever articles.

Dates:  December 15, 1931
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Correspondence of Laura Armistead Carter

Letter from Laura Armistead Carter to Colonel Byam, January 14, 1921

 Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 3
Identifier: 00903003
Scope and Contents

Carter asks ifThe Practice of Medicine in the Tropics, with her father's section on yellow fever, has gone to press. Her father has finished yellow fever work in Peru, but Laura Eugenia Cook Carter, his wife, has died.

Dates: January 14, 1921
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Correspondence of Henry Rose Carter

Letter from Laura Armistead Carter to Editor,  October 22, 1928

 Item — Box 13: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 5
Identifier: 01305004
Scope and Contents

Laura Carter sends the editor corrections for a biographical sketch of Henry Carter.

Dates:  October 22, 1928
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Correspondence of Laura Armistead Carter

Letter from Laura Armistead Carter to Emma Coleman Carter, September 23, 1894

 Item — Box 7: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 22
Identifier: 00722001
Scope and Contents

Laura Carter describes a boat trip with her father and brother, as well as a hurricane and the damage it caused.

Dates: September 23, 1894
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Letters from Henry Rose Carter and Laura Armistead Carter to Emma Coleman Carter

Letter from [Laura Armistead Carter] to Florence M. Read,  October 31, 1924

 Item — Box 12: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 13
Identifier: 01213028
Scope and Contents

Laura Carter sends Read a financial statement concerning H.R. Carter's work on the "History of Yellow Fever."

Dates:  October 31, 1924
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Correspondence of Henry Rose Carter

Letter from Laura Armistead Carter to Florence M. Read,  December 2, 1926

 Item — Box 12: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 41
Identifier: 01241001
Scope and Contents

Laura Carter expresses her gratitude to the International Health Board for their tribute to Henry Carter.

Dates:  December 2, 1926
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter

Letter from Laura Armistead Carter to Frederick F. Russell,  May 10, 1925

 Item — Box 12: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 24
Identifier: 01224006
Scope and Contents

Laura Carter says that she is withholding Russell's letter about possible yellow fever cases because of Henry Carter's poor health.

Dates:  May 10, 1925
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Correspondence of Henry Rose Carter

Letter from [Laura Armistead Carter] to Frederick F. Russell,  March 15, 1926

 Item — Box 12: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 37
Identifier: 01237003
Scope and Contents

[Laura Carter] thanks Russell for the news clipping on Moran and Kissinger. She writes that she will resume work on the book.

Dates:  March 15, 1926
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Correspondence of Laura Armistead Carter

Letter from Laura Armistead Carter to Frederick F. Russell,  February 1, 1929

 Item — Box 13: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 6
Identifier: 01306002
Scope and Contents

Laura Carter informs Russell of her progress on her father's book and reports that she has heard from Ramsey and Hayne regarding the International Health Board work.

Dates:  February 1, 1929
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Correspondence of Laura Armistead Carter

Letter from Laura Armistead Carter to [Frederick F. Russell],  circa 1900-1930

 Item — Box 13: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 12
Identifier: 01312009
Scope and Contents

Laura Carter informs Russell that she left the Ravenel correspondence with Read, but did not use it because her father's book ends before Reed's yellow fever work commenced.

Dates:  circa 1900-1930
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Correspondence of Laura Armistead Carter

Letter from [Laura Armistead Carter] to Hugh S. Cumming,  December 14, 1922

 Item — Box 10: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 4
Identifier: 01004030
Scope and Contents

[Laura Carter] sends Cumming a list of Henry Carter's articles at the Army Medical Museum.

Dates:  December 14, 1922
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Correspondence of Henry Rose Carter

Letter from Laura Armistead Carter to James G. Cumming, December 18, 1920

 Item — Box 8: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 23
Identifier: 00823036
Scope and Contents

Laura A. Carter informs Cumming that Henry Carter is in Peru.

Dates: December 18, 1920
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Correspondence of Henry Rose Carter

Letter from Laura Armistead Carter to James M. Phalen,  August 7, 1927

 Item — Box 13: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 2
Identifier: 01302003
Scope and Contents

Laura Carter provides Phalen with biographical information on Henry Carter and describes his temperament.

Dates:  August 7, 1927
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Correspondence of Laura Armistead Carter

Letter from [Laura Armistead Carter] to James M. Phalen,  August 9, 1927

 Item — Box 13: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 2
Identifier: 01302005
Scope and Contents

[Laura Carter] sends Phalen notes on Henry Carter and his work. She notes that Henry Carter excluded his living host theory from his 1900 article for fear that such speculation would make the article less acceptable.

Dates:  August 9, 1927
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Correspondence of Laura Armistead Carter

Letter from Laura Armistead Carter to Jefferson Randolph Kean,  November 12, 1928

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 72
Identifier: 06272043
Scope and Contents

Laura Carter provides Kean with the dates of Henry Carter's service in Cuba, in 1899 and 1900.

Dates:  November 12, 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 Laura Armistead Carter to Laura Eugenia Hook Carter, August 11, 1916

 Item — Box 8: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 2
Identifier: 00802001
Scope and Contents

Laura Carter describes her visit to see Henry Carter in South America.

Dates: August 11, 1916
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter

Letter from Laura Armistead Carter to Library of Congress,  circa 1900-1930

 Item — Box 13: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 12
Identifier: 01312008
Scope and Contents

Laura Carter requests books from the Library of Congress for use in a yellow fever bibliography.

Dates:  circa 1900-1930
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Correspondence of Laura Armistead Carter