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letters (correspondence)

 Subject

Staff Only
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:

Correspondence relating to the passage of a bill in Congress to honor Roger Post Ames, April 16, 1958-September 5, 1958

 File — Box 66: Series uva-lib:2230196, Folder: 43
Identifier: uva-lib:2230235
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series VIII. Miscellany consists of oversize and miscellaneous materials in the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed yellow fever collection that were, for various reasons, not included in any of the other series in the collection. Items in this series date from around 1849 to 1982 with the bulk of the materials dating from 1885 to 1974. These materials include, but are not limited to the following: informed...
Dates: April 16, 1958-September 5, 1958
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VIII. Miscellany

Correspondence relating to Warren G. Jernegan, 1948-1949

 File — Box 59: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 5
Identifier: uva-lib:2229417
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: 1948-1949
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VI. Alphabetical files

Correspondence, reports, and speeches of James E. Peabody, 1933-1943

 File — Box 33: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 4
Identifier: uva-lib:2225815
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: 1933-1943
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Lewis M. Dabney III papers on Edmund Wilson; William Faulkner and the Yoknapatawpha; and Crystal Ross and John Dos Passos.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16566
Content Description The Lewis M. Dabney III papers consist of manuscripts, notes, transcripts, articles, reviews, personal journals, bibliographic sources, audio cassettes, and compact discs, relating primarily to his research on the life and works of Edmund Wilson, an American writer and critic in the twentieth century. In addition to copies and transcripts of Wilson's writing journals, there is correspondence across a large network of intimate relationships, friends, and acquaintances of Wilson. The...
Dates: 1895 - 2005
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. letter to Murat Williams

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 9829
Content Description

ALS from Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr., to Murat Williams about Davis' review of "Man from the Valley," written by Francis Pickens Miller but edited by Williams.

Dates: 1971-07-16
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Depot Orders No. 580 from A.A. Stewart,  September 14, 1918

 Item — Box 30: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 46
Identifier: 03046008
Scope and Contents

Moran is assigned to the Clothing and Equipage Division.

Dates:  September 14, 1918
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Military records relating to John J. Moran

Doctors, the Envoys Latin Americans Like,New York Herald Tribune Books, July 5, 1942

 Item — Box 40: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 4
Identifier: uva-lib:2227191
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: July 5, 1942
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench

Donald Nuechterlein papers--addition 13

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2020-0009
Dates: 1974 - 2019
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Donald Nuechterlein papers--addition 14

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2020-0040
Dates: 1980 - 2009
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Draft list of microfilm in the National Archives pertaining to Columbia Barracks Post Hospital,  circa 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 22
Identifier: 03822026
Scope and Contents

Hench's list records microfilmed documents from the National Archives, including official reports and correspondence concerning Columbia Barracks Post Hospital, from 1899 to 1901.

Dates:  circa 1941
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

Draft of letter by Laura Armistead Carter to theNational Cyclopedia of American Biography,  December 1931

 Item — Box 13: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 8
Identifier: 01308016
Scope and Contents

Laura Carter sends the requested corrections to her father's biographical sketch and notes that there will be no charge to her for its inclusion in the publication.

Dates:  December 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

Draft of letter from Philip Showalter Hench to A. Diaz Albertini,  July 18, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 22
Identifier: 03822013
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:  July 18, 1941
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

Draft of letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Alberto Recio,  July 11, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 41
Identifier: 03841006
Scope and Contents

Hench inquires if Recio will help him locate a copy of "Memoria del Hospital Numero Uno Correspondiente al ano de 1902." He would like to give a copy to the Surgeon General's Library.

Dates:  July 11, 1941
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Correspondence of Philip Showalter Hench with Alberto Recio

Draft of letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Alton P. Tisdel,  February 24, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 3
Identifier: 03803027
Scope and Contents

Hench requests a large number of U.S. government publications published between 1898 and 1902. These documents are necessary for the preparation of a report to the Cuban government.

Dates:  February 24, 1941
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

[Draft?] of letter from Philip Showalter Hench to [Blossom Reed?],  April 5, 1945

 Item — Box 40: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 57
Identifier: 04057001
Scope and Contents

Hench is distressed to hear about Reed's financial problems. He offers monetary assistance.

Dates:  April 5, 1945
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

Draft of letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Harry L. Freer,  February 24, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 3
Identifier: 03803023
Scope and Contents

Hench requests the key to the numbered buildings shown in a 1902 map of Columbia Barracks.

Dates:  February 24, 1941
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

Draft of letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Jan H. Tillisch,  February 16, 1948

 Item — Box 42: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 5
Identifier: 04205020
Scope and Contents

Hench discusses his yellow fever research. He informs Tillisch that he is searching for an aerial photograph of the area around Camp Lazear, but has been unable to locate one.

Dates:  February 16, 1948
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

Draft of letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Merritte W. Ireland,  November 17, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 34
Identifier: 03834010
Scope and Contents

Hench discusses Truby's manuscript and notes that he has sent a copy to Kean. Hench adds that when he met with Matas he was able to review some of Agramonte's papers, but found nothing he could use.

Dates:  November 17, 1941
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

Draft of letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Pedro Nogueira,  May 16, 1947

 Item — Box 41: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 44
Identifier: 04144005
Scope and Contents

Hench informs Nogueira that he is gratified that the Cuban government has designated Camp Lazear Building No. 1 as a national monument. He will join the Cubans in an effort to properly memorialize the work of Finlay and the Americans.

Dates:  May 16, 1947
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Correspondence of Philip Showalter Hench concerning a memorial at Camp Lazear

Draft of letter from [Philip Showalter Hench] to Pedro Nogueira,  April 15, 1948

 Item — Box 42: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 14
Identifier: 04214041
Scope and Contents

[Hench] discusses the funding approved, by the Minister of Public Works, for the Camp Lazear memorial. [Hench] describes his meetings, arranged by Carbonell, with the Cuban Vice-President and engineer Colete, and postulates that Colete and the Vice-President may have influenced the approval of the funds.

Dates:  April 15, 1948
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