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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 Philip Showalter Hench to Currier McEwen,  September 20, 1951

 Item — Box 43: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 73
Identifier: 04373013
Scope and Contents

Hench hopes that the telegram sent for New York University's commemoration of the centennial of Reed's birth was satisfactory. He offers to send a photograph of Reed's Bellevue medical diploma to McEwen.

Dates:  September 20, 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 Philip Showalter Hench to Currier McEwen, October 25, 1951

 Item — Box 43: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 77
Identifier: 04377011
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 25, 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 Philip Showalter Hench to Currier McEwen,  November 14, 1951

 Item — Box 43: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 83
Identifier: 04383006
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 14, 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 Philip Showalter Hench to Currier McEwen,  December 24, 1951

 Item — Box 43: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 84
Identifier: 04384014
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 24, 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 Philip Showalter Hench to Currier McEwen,  November 19, 1952

 Item — Box 44: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 33
Identifier: 04433015
Scope and Contents

Hench inquires whether a representative of the Bellevue Medical Center would like to place a wreath under Reed's medallion during the dedication ceremonies of Camp Lazear. Reed graduated from Bellevue Medical College in 1870.

Dates:  November 19, 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 relating the dedicatory ceremonies for the memorial park at the site of Camp Lazear

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Darrell C. Crain,  January 8, 1942

 Item — Box 39: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 6
Identifier: 03906036
Scope and Contents

Hench requests permission to borrow a movie projector from Crain.

Dates:  January 8, 1942
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 Philip Showalter Hench to Darrell C. Crain,  January 26, 1942

 Item — Box 39: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 6
Identifier: 03906083
Scope and Contents

Hench sends Crain photographs and thanks him for helping with a film for Emilie Lawrence Reed.

Dates:  January 26, 1942
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 Philip Showalter Hench to Dave Leavitt,  April 30, 1947

 Item — Box 41: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 31
Identifier: 04131005
Scope and Contents

Hench thanks Leavitt for the Reed sanitary report from Fort Robinson, Nebraska and comments on the report.

Dates:  April 30, 1947
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 Philip Showalter Hench to Dean Acheson,  January 12, 1953

 Item — Box 46: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 3
Identifier: 04603022
Scope and Contents

Hench thanks Secretary of State Acheson for the help his department provided in regards to the Camp Lazear dedication.

Dates:  January 12, 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 Philip Showalter Hench to Dean Cornwell,  July 8, 1941

 Item — Box 59: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 6
Identifier: 05906129
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:  July 8, 1941
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VI. Alphabetical files / Materials relating to George A. Kellogg

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to D.J. Withington,  January 22, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 1
Identifier: 03801019
Scope and Contents

Hench suggests meeting with Cornwell and Withington to discuss a possible future painting to be included in their series entitled "Pioneers of American Medicine." He offers to present them with his research on the Yellow Fever Commission. Hench discusses his memorial plans in Cuba.

Dates:  January 22, 1941
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 Philip Showalter Hench to D.J. Withington,  September 29, 1943

 Item — Box 40: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 31
Identifier: 04031005
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 29, 1943
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 with related notes

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Domingo F. Ramos,  August 28, 1940

 Item — Box 35: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 99
Identifier: 03599004
Scope and Contents

Hench poses questions concerning the site of Camp Lazear.

Dates:  August 28, 1940
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Letters from Philip Showalter Hench to A. Diaz Albertini, Juan D. Castro, and Domingo F. Ramos

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Domingo F. Ramos,  December 6, 1944

 Item — Box 40: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 47
Identifier: 04047005
Scope and Contents

Hench inquires about the preparations for the meeting in Cuba. He would like to attend and offers to loan his slides on yellow fever to Ramos.

Dates:  December 6, 1944
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous correspondence and notes of Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Domingo F. Ramos,  November 13, 1944

 Item — Box 40: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 50
Identifier: 04050013
Scope and Contents

Hench offers to lend Ramos some of his slides which deal with the yellow fever experiments. He also offers financial help to protect Building No. 1 and requests Ramos' assistance in organizing this effort.

Dates:  November 13, 1944
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Correspondence and other materials relating to the preservation of the surviving building at Camp Lazear

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Domingo F. Ramos,  February 26, 1945

 Item — Box 40: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 54
Identifier: 04054003
Scope and Contents

Hench, believing that Ramos sponsored his appointment to the Finlay Institute, thanks him for his support.

Dates:  February 26, 1945
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous correspondence and notes of Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Domingo F. Ramos,  March 31, 1945

 Item — Box 40: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 55
Identifier: 04055001
Scope and Contents

Hench writes that, due to a translation error, he was under the assumption that he had been appointed to a directorial position at the Finlay Institute. He is very embarrassed about the total affair.

Dates:  March 31, 1945
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 Philip Showalter Hench to Domingo F. Ramos,  November 20, 1952

 Item — Box 44: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 33
Identifier: 04433025
Scope and Contents

Hench looks forward to renewing his friendship with Ramos, whom he assigned a central role in the preservation of Camp Lazear. Hench also hopes that Ramos' suggestion of a public health facility on the site might be carried out, and pledges his support in this effort.

Dates:  November 20, 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 relating the dedicatory ceremonies for the memorial park at the site of Camp Lazear

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Domingo F. Ramos,  May 1, 1941

 Item — Box 39: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 1
Identifier: 03901005
Scope and Contents

Hench requests Ramos' help in raising funds for a memorial in Cuba.

Dates:  May 1, 1941
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Correspondence and reports of Philip Showalter Hench and Domingo F. Ramos relating to the location of Camp Lazear

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Domingo F. Ramos,  November 22, 1941

 Item — Box 39: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 1
Identifier: 03901008
Scope and Contents

Hench sends Ramos two reprints of his article on yellow fever which touches upon the work of Finlay.

Dates:  November 22, 1941
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Correspondence and reports of Philip Showalter Hench and Domingo F. Ramos relating to the location of Camp Lazear