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letters (correspondence)

 Subject
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 Philip Showalter Hench to Bertha L. Lyons,  May 15, 1948

 Item — Box 42: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 23
Identifier: 04223018
Scope and Contents

Hench discusses Cuban attitudes toward the “Reed versus Finlay” debate, and describes his reaction to a threatened protest by the Cuban delegation. Hench was careful to include Finlay items in his exhibit and slide show, and to praise Finlay in his lecture.

Dates:  May 15, 1948

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Bertha L. Lyons,  June 14, 1948

 Item — Box 42: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 24
Identifier: 04224014
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:  June 14, 1948

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Bertha L. Lyons,  June 29, 1948

 Item — Box 42: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 24
Identifier: 04224020
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:  June 29, 1948

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Bertha L. Lyons,  May 4, 1949

 Item — Box 43: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 7
Identifier: 04307001
Scope and Contents

Hench thanks Lyons for her praise of his arthritis research. He has not progressed far on his Reed book, but finds the yellow fever research a wonderful hobby and plans to finish the book.

Dates:  May 4, 1949

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Bertha Lyons,  April 1, 1948

 Item — Box 64: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 13
Identifier: 06413208
Scope and Contents

Hench sends a detailed list to Lyons of the photographs, correspondence, and documents that are to be used at the unveiling of the bust of Reed in New York City.

Dates:  April 1, 1948

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Bertha Lyons,  May 24, 1948

 Item — Box 42: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 23
Identifier: 04223030
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 24, 1948

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Bessie M. Griswold, July 26, 1950

 Item — Box 43: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 38
Identifier: 04338009
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 26, 1950

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Bessie M. Griswold,  March 29, 1951

 Item — Box 43: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 58
Identifier: 04358001
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:  March 29, 1951

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Bessie M. Griswold,  December 11, 1951

 Item — Box 43: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 84
Identifier: 04384004
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:  December 11, 1951

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Blanca Malaret,  November 21, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 34
Identifier: 03834022
Scope and Contents

Hench sends Malaret copies of letters concerning the photostats he has requested of the Military Hospital No. 1 history. He also sends reprints of his yellow fever article and hopes that Cubans regard it as the beginning of Hench's campaign to credit Finlay's work among American physicians.

Dates:  November 21, 1941

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Blossom [Emilie M.] Reed,  September, 1941

 Item — Box 63: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 6
Identifier: 06306108
Scope and Contents

Hench asks Reed for permission to show some of her father's letters to Wood.

Dates:  September, 1941

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Blossom [Emilie M.] Reed, 1944

 Item — Box 40: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 48
Identifier: uva-lib:2227335
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: 1944

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Blossom [Emilie M.] Reed, September 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 26
Identifier: uva-lib:2226756
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: September 1941

Letter from [Philip Showalter Hench] to Blossom [Emilie M.] Reed, November 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 35
Identifier: uva-lib:2226824
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: November 1941

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Blossom [Emilie M.] Reed, May 13, 1943

 Item — Box 40: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 26
Identifier: uva-lib:2227268
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 13, 1943

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Blossom [Emilie M.] Reed,  April 8, 1953

 Item — Box 46: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 8
Identifier: 04608004
Scope and Contents

Hench informs Blossom Reed that he will be happy to help her with the sale of her father's books. He discusses what makes books and autographs valuable.

Dates:  April 8, 1953

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Blossom [Emilie M.] Reed,  June 11, 1953

 Item — Box 46: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 11
Identifier: 04611002
Scope and Contents

Hench informs Blossom Reed of his efforts to determine the value of her father's books.

Dates:  June 11, 1953

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Blossom [Emilie M.] Reed,  April 2, 1952

 Item — Box 44: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 21
Identifier: 04421001
Scope and Contents

Hench will inform Clark that Blossom plans to write a story about the Apache woman who worked in her parent's household. Hench offers to put her into contact with one of the editors of the Saturday Evening Post. He reports that the Cuban government seems prepared to do something about Camp Lazear, and he will send Blossom copies of the plans.

Dates:  April 2, 1952

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Blossom [Emilie M.] Reed, July 28, 1958

 Item — Box 137: Series uva-lib:2231435, Folder: 33
Identifier: uva-lib:2231468
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series XII. Houston Academy of Medicine/Texas Medical Center additions consists of materials that Philip Showalter Hench created or collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1901 to around 1966. These materials were originally a part of the Philip S. Hench papers in the John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center at the Texas Medical Center Library, but they were transferred to the University of Virginia in 1991. These...
Dates: July 28, 1958

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Blossom [Emilie M.] Reed, June 17, 1941

 Item — Box 141: Series uva-lib:2231610, Folder: 70
Identifier: uva-lib:2231683
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: June 17, 1941