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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 Marie D. Gorgas to Jefferson Randolph Kean,  March 5, 1924

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 52
Identifier: 06252001
Scope and Contents

Marie Gorgas thanks Kean for his informative letter. She is currently collaborating with Hendrick on a biography of Gorgas.

Dates:  March 5, 1924
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench

Letter from Marie D. Gorgas to Jefferson Randolph Kean,  March 19, 1925

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 68
Identifier: 06268001
Scope and Contents

Marie Gorgas writes to Kean that she regrets his disapproval of her biography of William Crawford Gorgas. [Kean] appends a note chastising the authors of the biography for failing to correct errors called to their attention six months before publication.

Dates:  March 19, 1925
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench

Letter from Mario G. Lebredo to Walter M. Daniel,  December 22, 1923

 Item — Box 11: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 38
Identifier: 01138014
Scope and Contents

Lebredo states that the sick man from a steamship who was taken to Las Animas Hospital died of malaria.

Dates:  December 22, 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 Mario Lebredo to the Head of National Department of Sanitation,  October 1, 1908

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 34
Identifier: 06234003
Scope and Contents

Lebredo discusses the diagnosis of a possible yellow fever case.

Dates:  October 1, 1908
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Letters from Carlos J. Finlay and Mario Lebrado with a telegram and a fever chart

Letter from Mark F. Boyd to Henry Rose Carter,  April 14, 1924

 Item — Box 11: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 43
Identifier: 01143005
Scope and Contents

Boyd refers to two excerpts from Goeldis' theory on the African origin of Stegomyia fasciata.

Dates:  April 14, 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 Marshall J. Fiese to Philip Showalter Hench,  February 27, 1952

 Item — Box 44: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 17
Identifier: 04417018
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:  February 27, 1952
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 Marshall L. Price to Howard A. Kelly,  February 4, 1908

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 34
Identifier: 02934002
Scope and Contents

Price requests that Kelly make a deposition in support of a pension for Jennie Carroll.

Dates:  February 4, 1908
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Letters from Marshall Price to Howard A. Kelly

Letter from Marshall L. Price to Howard A. Kelly,  October 19, 1907

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 13
Identifier: 02913001
Scope and Contents

Price writes about Carroll's experience in the military, particularly under the command of his father. He corrects misconceptions regarding his father's role in Carroll's career.

Dates:  October 19, 1907
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Marshall Price to Howard A. Kelly,  circa February 1908

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 34
Identifier: 02934001
Scope and Contents

Price thanks Kelly for submitting a deposition in support of a pension for Jennie Carroll.

Dates:  circa February 1908
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Letters from Marshall Price to Howard A. Kelly

Letter from Martha Alexander to Philip Showalter Hench,  April 17, 1951

 Item — Box 43: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 59
Identifier: 04359013
Scope and Contents

Alexander, writing on behalf of "The Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences," requests that Hench review a book on yellow fever, by George Strode, for the journal.

Dates:  April 17, 1951
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 Martha P. Houston to Charlotte C. Sweitzer, January 6, 1902

 Item — Box 4: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 1
Identifier: 00401001
Scope and Contents

Houston provides news of Mabel Lazear and her children, as well as the effort to secure a pension for her.

Dates: January 6, 1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series I. Jesse W. Lazear

Letter from Martha P. Houston to Charlotte C. Sweitzer, January 11, 1902

 Item — Box 4: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 3
Identifier: 00403001
Scope and Contents

Houston provides news of Mabel Lazear and the children, as well as the pension efforts.

Dates: January 11, 1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series I. Jesse W. Lazear

Letter from Martha P. Houston to Charlotte C. Sweitzer, January 18, 1902

 Item — Box 4: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 6
Identifier: 00406001
Scope and Contents

Houston provides family news and mentions an article on Lazear's life.

Dates: January 18, 1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series I. Jesse W. Lazear

Letter from Martha P. Houston to Charlotte C. Sweitzer, March 24, 1902

 Item — Box 4: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 13
Identifier: 00413001
Scope and Contents

Houston provides family news. She discusses letters of congratulation for the passage of the pension bill.

Dates: March 24, 1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series I. Jesse W. Lazear

Letter from Mary A. Benjamin to Philip Showalter Hench,  October 27, 1939

 Item — Box 35: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 14
Identifier: 03514001
Scope and Contents

Benjamin offers a collection of letters concerning Madame Curie, and a letter of Abraham Lincoln that is for sale.

Dates:  October 27, 1939
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Mary A. Benjamin to Philip Showalter Hench,  August 17, 1946

 Item — Box 41: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 12
Identifier: 04112007
Scope and Contents

Benjamin responds to Hench's letter from August 13, 1946 that relates to the return of some letters Hench had previously purchased from Benjamin.

Dates:  August 17, 1946
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 Mary A. Benjamin to Philip Showalter Hench, May 27, 1947

 Item — Box 41: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 32
Identifier: 04132002
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: May 27, 1947
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous correspondence and invoices of Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Mary A. Benjamin to Philip Showalter Hench,  June 19, 1953

 Item — Box 46: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 12
Identifier: 04612009
Scope and Contents

Benjamin is withdrawing her offer of $10 for each of the signed Walter Reed books. She has consulted two book-dealers who also refused to make an offer. She suggests he buy them himself.

Dates:  June 19, 1953
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 Mary A. Benjamin to Philip Showalter Hench,  March 24, 1948

 Item — Box 42: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 12
Identifier: 04212042
Scope and Contents

Benjamin tells Hench that the New York Academy of Medicine has taken possession of the correspondence relating to Curie's visit to the United States.

Dates:  March 24, 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

Letter from Mary Fishback to Philip Showalter Hench,  August 30, 1940

 Item — Box 36: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 1
Identifier: 03601010
Scope and Contents

Fishback writes that there was very little newspaper coverage of Reed's paper on the transmission of yellow fever, which was presented at the 1900 Public Health Association meeting.

Dates:  August 30, 1940
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