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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 Neva Pauline Hough to Philip Showalter Hench,  August 19, 1940

 Item — Box 35: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 92
Identifier: 03592001
Scope and Contents

Hough gives the date for the Lazear ceremony and also attaches information on his relationship with Washington and Jefferson College.

Dates:  August 19, 1940
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Correspondence between Neva Pauline Hough and Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Neva Pauline Hough to Philip Showalter Hench,  September 18, 1940

 Item — Box 36: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 6
Identifier: 03606011
Scope and Contents

Hough informs Hench that Cooke will be invited to the upcoming Lazear memorial event and that Kissinger will attend.

Dates:  September 18, 1940
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 relating to Lazear memorial event at Washington and Jefferson College

Letter from Nicolas E. Cavassa to Henry Rose Carter,  September 27, 1922

 Item — Box 10: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 1
Identifier: 01001035
Scope and Contents

Cavassa writes to Carter that he finds his account of the yellow fever epidemic in Peru interesting. Unfortunately, he has lost the reference to the article on Stegomyias that Carter had requested.

Dates:  September 27, 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 Nicolas E. Cavassa to Henry Rose Carter, December 3, 1921

 Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 17
Identifier: 00917003
Scope and Contents

Cavassa discusses the ongoing yellow fever campaign.

Dates: December 3, 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 N.J. Blackwood to Howard A. Kelly,  July 5, 1907

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 31
Identifier: 02931022
Scope and Contents

Blackwood sends a contribution for Kissinger.

Dates:  July 5, 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 N.P. Stewart to Howard A. Kelly,  February 20, 1907

 Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 77
Identifier: 02877001
Scope and Contents

Stewart praises Kelly's book. He suggests corrections for clarification, and notes that he would emphasize the role of the Public Health Service.

Dates:  February 20, 1907
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from N.V. Goldbacher to [Howard A. Kelly],  circa 1907

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 31
Identifier: 02931049
Scope and Contents

Goldbacher sends a contribution for Kissinger.

Dates:  circa 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 O. O. Howard to the Adjutant General,  December 14, 1882

 Item — Box 17: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 79
Identifier: 01779011
Scope and Contents

Howard requests that Reed be assigned to the hospital under his command, due to his steward's disability and the limitations of the Medical Director. The Adjutant General's office denies the request. Included are an endorsement of the request and a document specifying its removal.

Dates:  December 14, 1882
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Military records relating to Walter Reed

Letter from O.C. Merrill to the Secretary of the Public Health Service, December 13, 1920

 Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 1
Identifier: 00901002
Scope and Contents

Merrill discusses regulations under Federal Water Power Act.

Dates: December 13, 1920
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Papers on impounded waters

Letter from Olin West to Jefferson Randolph Kean,  March 24, 1925

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 69
Identifier: 06269019
Scope and Contents

West thanks Kean for reprints of his review of the Gorgas biography.

Dates:  March 24, 1925
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 Oliver L. Pothier to Florence M. Read,  August 20, 1923

 Item — Box 11: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 38
Identifier: 01138032
Scope and Contents

Pothier sends Read his final report on the work of the Yellow Fever Commission that went to Colombia in 1923.

Dates:  August 20, 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 Oliver L. Pothier to Joseph H. White,  May 26, 1923

 Item — Box 11: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 2
Identifier: 01102038
Scope and Contents

Pothier reports on the reactions obtained from the sera of the cases of yellow fever seen in Bucaramanga.

Dates:  May 26, 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 Oliver L. Pothier to Joseph H. White,  June 14, 1923

 Item — Box 11: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 9
Identifier: 01109041
Scope and Contents

Pothier reports on his trip to Cucuta, Colombia, where no yellow fever is reported, although there is a great incidence of stegomyia. He has informed the government of the necessity for a mosquito campaign.

Dates:  June 14, 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 Oren Britt Brown to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  October 6, 1931

 Item — Box 32: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 63
Identifier: 03263001
Scope and Contents

Brown sends Emilie Lawrence Reed an article on the Congressional gold medal awarded to Walter Reed. He has heard of the progress on Blossom's new house.

Dates:  October 6, 1931
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Orestes A.B. Senter to Howard A. Kelly,  July 15, 1907

 Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 92
Identifier: 02892001
Scope and Contents

Senter sends a contribution for Kissinger.

Dates:  July 15, 1907
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Oscar Dowling to Henry Rose Carter, March 26, 1917

 Item — Box 8: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 11
Identifier: 00811026
Scope and Contents

Dowling informs Carter that there has been no increase of malaria associated with timber operations in swampland.

Dates: March 26, 1917
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 Oscar M. Narbona to Philip Showalter Hench,  August 23, 1951

 Item — Box 43: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 65
Identifier: 04365023
Scope and Contents

Narbona sends Hench information on the Hotel Varadero International.

Dates:  August 23, 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 Oscar M. Narbora to Philip Showalter Hench, October 2, 1951

 Item — Box 43: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 77
Identifier: 04377004
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: October 2, 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 Otis O. Benson to Jan H. Tillisch,  February 27, 1948

 Item — Box 42: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 5
Identifier: 04205053
Scope and Contents

Benson is fairly certain that the aerial photographs of Cuba that Hench wants are available. He says the photos of foreign areas are classified and must be cleared, but thinks it can be done in a minimum of three weeks.

Dates:  February 27, 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 Otto L. Bettmann to Philip Showalter Hench,  January 19, 1948

 Item — Box 42: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 1
Identifier: 04201016
Scope and Contents

Bettmann thanks Hench for the photographs of William and Charles Mayo.

Dates:  January 19, 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