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letters (correspondence)

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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:

Letter from Mrs. A. Bryant (secretary of Mary Standlee) to Mrs. Lavonne Crissman (secretary of Philip Showalter Hench), July 25, 1951

 Item — Box 146: Series uva-lib:2231610, Folder: 43
Identifier: uva-lib:2232095
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series XIV. P. Kahler Hench additions consists of original and photocopied materials that Philip Showalter Hench's son, P. Kahler Hench, donated to the University of Virginia in 1988 and 1989. Items in the series date from around 1860 to 1965 with the bulk of the materials dating from 1898 to 1965. Most of these items were collected or created by Philip Showalter Hench while researching the yellow fever experiments. These items include the following: ...
Dates: July 25, 1951
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series XIV. P. Kahler Hench additions

Letter from Mrs. Albert Babcock to [Howard A. Kelly],  July 11, 1907

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 31
Identifier: 02931031
Scope and Contents

Babcock sends a contribution for Kissinger.

Dates:  July 11, 1907
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Correspondence relating to contributions for the support of John R. Kissinger

Letter from Mrs. Arthur S. Griswold to Philip Showalter Hench with attached check,  July 24, 1950

 Item — Box 43: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 38
Identifier: 04338004
Scope and Contents

Mrs. Griswold sends Hench $50.00 for the Reed Memorial Association, in memory of Emilie Lawrence Reed.

Dates:  July 24, 1950
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 Mrs. Carl Voegtlin to Laura Armistead Carter,  September 18, 1925

 Item — Box 12: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 28
Identifier: 01228031
Scope and Contents

Voegtlin expresses her condolences upon the death of Henry Carter.

Dates:  September 18, 1925
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 Mrs. Crissman to Philip Showalter Hench,  January 26, 1948

 Item — Box 42: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 1
Identifier: 04201027
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:  January 26, 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 Mrs. George Carroll to Philip Showalter Hench,  November 4, 1953

 Item — Box 58: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 8
Identifier: 05808017
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 4, 1953
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series VI. Alphabetical files / Correspondence between Philip Showalter Hench and Mrs. George S.H. Carroll

Letter from Mrs. George Carroll to Philip Showalter Hench,  February 4, 1954

 Item — Box 58: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 8
Identifier: 05808023
Scope and Contents

Mrs. Carroll informs Hench that she is unable to go through the records of James Carroll. She will be unavailable to meet with Hench the next time he is in Washington, D.C.

Dates:  February 4, 1954
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series VI. Alphabetical files / Correspondence between Philip Showalter Hench and Mrs. George S.H. Carroll

Letter from Mrs. George Carroll to Philip Showalter Hench,  February 19, 1954

 Item — Box 58: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 8
Identifier: 05808026
Scope and Contents

Mrs. Carroll informs Hench that unless he has the written consent from the daughters of the late James Carroll, he will not be permitted to examine any papers.

Dates:  February 19, 1954
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series VI. Alphabetical files / Correspondence between Philip Showalter Hench and Mrs. George S.H. Carroll

Letter from Mrs. George Carroll to Philip Showalter Hench,  May 12, 1954

 Item — Box 58: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 8
Identifier: 05808055
Scope and Contents

Mrs. Carroll describes the presentation of the Finlay medal at the Cuban Embassy. She discusses the behavior of her sisters-in-law before the ceremony. She does not want her sisters-in-law to know that Hench has examined James Carroll's papers.

Dates:  May 12, 1954
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series VI. Alphabetical files / Correspondence between Philip Showalter Hench and Mrs. George S.H. Carroll

Letter from Mrs. George Carroll to Philip Showalter Hench,  November 5, 1954

 Item — Box 58: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 8
Identifier: 05808069
Scope and Contents

Mrs. Carroll is unable to meet with Hench, she is ill and lives with relatives in Maryland. All of James Carroll's papers are stored for safe-keeping. She is anxious to come to an agreement about the papers with her sisters-in-laws because she claims to be fed up with the whole business.

Dates:  November 5, 1954
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series VI. Alphabetical files / Correspondence between Philip Showalter Hench and Mrs. George S.H. Carroll

Letter from Mrs. George Carroll to Philip Showalter Hench,  May 2, 1956

 Item — Box 58: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 8
Identifier: 05808077
Scope and Contents

Mrs. Carroll claims that Hench never returned the papers she loaned to him two years ago. She has lost all interest in the Carroll affair and does not wish to have further contact with Hench regarding the matter. She comments on the credit given to Reed.

Dates:  May 2, 1956
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series VI. Alphabetical files / Correspondence between Philip Showalter Hench and Mrs. George S.H. Carroll

Letter from Mrs. J.O. Gawne to Philip Showalter Hench, May 10, 1948

 Item — Box 145: Series uva-lib:2231610, Folder: 100
Identifier: uva-lib:2232036
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series XIV. P. Kahler Hench additions consists of original and photocopied materials that Philip Showalter Hench's son, P. Kahler Hench, donated to the University of Virginia in 1988 and 1989. Items in the series date from around 1860 to 1965 with the bulk of the materials dating from 1898 to 1965. Most of these items were collected or created by Philip Showalter Hench while researching the yellow fever experiments. These items include the following: ...
Dates: May 10, 1948
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series XIV. P. Kahler Hench additions

Letter from Mrs. John A. Hall to [s.n.] Murphy,  July 26, 1907

 Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 94
Identifier: 02894001
Scope and Contents

Hall sends a contribution for Kissinger.

Dates:  July 26, 1907
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Mrs. John R. Hall to Howard A. Kelly,  July 4, 1907

 Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 88
Identifier: 02888001
Scope and Contents

Hall sends a contribution for Kissinger.

Dates:  July 4, 1907
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Mrs. Percival Chrystie to Howard A. Kelly,  July 2, 1907

 Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 87
Identifier: 02887001
Scope and Contents

Chrystie sends a contribution for Kissinger.

Dates:  July 2, 1907
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from M.S. Lombard to Henry Rose Carter,  November 17, 1922

 Item — Box 10: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 3
Identifier: 01003035
Scope and Contents

Lombard requests Carter's advice on possible yellow fever cases.

Dates:  November 17, 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 M.S. Lombard to [Hugh S. Cumming],  September 18, 1922

 Item — Box 10: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 3
Identifier: 01003017
Scope and Contents

Lombard reports on a possible yellow fever case involving the death of a Spanish seaman. He includes clinical and pathological reports and describes treatment of the vessel and crew.

Dates:  September 18, 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 M.S. Lombard to the Surgeon General of the United States,  September 18, 1922

 Item — Box 10: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 3
Identifier: 01003023
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series II. Henry Rose Carter consists of materials relating to Henry Rose Carter that Philip Showalter Hench collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1880 to 1932 with the bulk of the materials dating from 1883 to 1932. The series is particularly rich in materials that document Henry Rose Carter's professional activities in the last eleven years of his life (1914-1925). These materials include, but are not limited to the...
Dates:  September 18, 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 Muryle Riley to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  May 31, 1927

 Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 22
Identifier: 03122007
Scope and Contents

This letter, written by a student of Edith R. Force, thanks Emilie Lawrence Reed for the life and work of Walter Reed.

Dates:  May 31, 1927
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Letters from the students of Woodrow Wilson Jr. High School to Emilie Lawrence Reed

Letter from Myron [s.n.] to Laura Armistead Carter,  May 4, 1931

 Item — Box 13: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 8
Identifier: 01308004
Scope and Contents

Cousin Myron writes that she is using Laura Carter's notes for a biographical sketch of Henry Carter.

Dates:  May 4, 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