letters (correspondence)

Letter from Maria Teresa Rojas to Philip Showalter Hench, July 14, 1954

Item — Box 47: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 17

Identifier: 04717003

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 14, 1954

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 Maria Teresa Rojas to Philip Showalter Hench, July 22, 1951

Item — Box 44: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 1

Identifier: 04401004

Scope and Contents

Rojas informs Hench that she has read of the Cuban government's plans to make the Camp Lazear memorial another monument to Finlay, and wonders if Hench has abandoned his plans for the memorial or is still working with the government. She offers her help and hopes his ideas will be carried out.

Dates: July 22, 1951

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 the preservation of Building Number One at Camp Lazear

Letter from Maria Teresa Rojas to Philip Showalter Hench, October 27, 1951

Item — Box 44: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 1

Identifier: 04401007

Scope and Contents

Rojas writes that she is glad to know Hench is coming to Havana because there are matters she wishes to discuss with him. She provides information about Cuban hotels and informs him that she will soon be in New York.

Dates: October 27, 1951

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 the preservation of Building Number One at Camp Lazear

Letter from Maria Teresa Rojas to Philip Showalter Hench, December 27, 1952

Item — Box 45: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 1

Identifier: 04501012

Scope and Contents

Rojas requests that Hench send her some photographs of the Camp Lazear dedication. She also invites him to come to San Jose for a rest.

Dates: December 27, 1952

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 news reports of the dedicatory ceremonies at the site of Camp Lazear

Letter from Marian Walker Williams to William S. Thayer, circa 1908

Item — Box 4: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 44

Identifier: 00444015

Scope and Contents

The pension voted by Congress for Mabel Lazear is being opposed by a member of the Reparations Committee. Williams requests help in pressuring the committee in her favor.

Dates: circa 1908

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series I. Jesse W. Lazear / Letters and documents relating to a pension for Mabel H. Lazear

Letter from Marie C. Oemler to Emilie Lawrence Reed, March 12, 1928

Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 48

Identifier: 03148001

Scope and Contents

Oemler thanks Emilie Lawrence Reed for the works of Walter Reed.

Dates: March 12, 1928

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

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, 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 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 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