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letters (correspondence)

 Subject

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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 6940 Collections and/or Records:

Fragment of letter from Walter Reed to an unidentified person, circa 1860-1902

 Item — Box 142: Series uva-lib:2231610, Folder: 56
Identifier: uva-lib:2231765
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: circa 1860-1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series XIV. P. Kahler Hench additions

Fragment of letter from Walter Reed to an unidentified person, circa 1860-1902

 Item — Box 142: Series uva-lib:2231610, Folder: 57
Identifier: uva-lib:2231766
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: circa 1860-1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series XIV. P. Kahler Hench additions

Fragment of letter from Walter Reed to an unidentified person, circa 1860-1902

 Item — Box 142: Series uva-lib:2231610, Folder: 58
Identifier: uva-lib:2231767
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: circa 1860-1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series XIV. P. Kahler Hench additions

Fragment of letter from Walter Reed to an unidentified person, circa 1860-1902

 Item — Box 142: Series uva-lib:2231610, Folder: 59
Identifier: uva-lib:2231768
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: circa 1860-1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series XIV. P. Kahler Hench additions

Fragment of letter from Walter Reed to an unidentified person, circa 1860-1902

 Item — Box 142: Series uva-lib:2231610, Folder: 60
Identifier: uva-lib:2231769
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: circa 1860-1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series XIV. P. Kahler Hench additions

Fragment ofReport of the Surgeon General of the Army to the Secretary of War for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1903,  June 30, 1903

 Item — Box 27: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 11
Identifier: 02711001
Scope and Contents

O'Reilly reports about the state of yellow fever in the United States and foreign territories, and claims that it will not be a factor for health concerns in the future. He also includes a chart which details the admissions of important diseases by months for 1902. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  June 30, 1903
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Frances Parkinson Keyes family papers

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2017-0187
Dates: 1851-1998
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Frank Gardiner Wisner Jr. memorabilia

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2014-02
Scope and Contents

This collection includes four letters sent to Frank Gardiner Wisner by assistant dean of the Department of Law George B. Eager Jr. and by Armistead M. Dobie, dean of the Department of Law of the University of Virginia, and an oversized photo of the 1931 UVA Varsity Track team, and a certificate permitting Wisner to practice law in NY.

Dates: 1931 - 1941
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Frank Owen Wilson and Susan Rinehart World War II correspondence

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2017-0173
Dates: 1941-1945
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Albert R. Gallatin papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 15968
Scope and Contents Albert Gallatin papers (1795-1828; 0.1 cubic feet) contains an oversize tableau chronologique, unnumbered pages of correspondence concerning the Baron de Gallatin, 1777; letter from Albert Gallatin to David Lenox, Washington D.C. January 4, 1808; letter from Albert Gallatin to Johnathan Bu[?], Washington D.C. September 7, 1808; letter from Albert Gallatin to Thomas Worthington, New Geneva, PA September 10, 1823; letter from John Ferguson to Albert Gallatin, "Head of Sassafras," February 9,...
Dates: 1795-1828
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Garland family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS16688
Content Description This collection consists primarly of 26 letters of correspondence between Thomas Garland, his wife Jane Moore Taylor Garland (1810-1861), her father William Day Taylor (1781-1858), and Jane's sisters and sisters(-in-law?) F. A. Taylor (Frances Ann Taylor), Clarissa "Clara" Garland Kean (1816-1845), her husband Dr. Ortho Williams Kean (1813-1865), and Mary Garland from New Kent, British Colonial Virginia (Orange County, Virginia) and other locations including Botetourt County, Goochland,...
Dates: c. 1830-1911
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Gay family papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS 16415
Scope and Contents Note

The Gay family papers (1829-1922; 0.5 cubic feet) document the lives of members of the Gay family of Staunton, Virginia. The collection contains approximately 200 letters written by and to family members, with about one-third of the letters written by Private Charles Wyndham Gay (1841-1862) of the Confederate Army to his parents. Other letters include those from Alexandre Etienne de Clouet, a Louisiana Deputy to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States.

Dates: 1829 - 1922
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

George B. Eager Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-78-7
Scope and Contents

The George B. Eager collection fills only one folder and spans less than one year, 1933. As the first letter indicates, Eager solicited alumni to write to the Rector and Visitors of the University endorsing the appointment of John L. Newcomb as president. The rest of the collection is mostly letters from alumni endorsing Newcomb. Correspondence and clippings at the end of the file indicate that Eager was successful.

Dates: 1932 - 1936
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Margaret Shelton Gillis papers

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16178
Scope and Contents Note The Margaret Shelton Gillis papers (1936-1975; 0.9 cubic feet) document the education and personal life of Virginia teacher Margaret Gillis. The collection contains school ephemera and letters, the former including handwritten notes from high school, newspapers, programs from various events, tests, student photographs, a Westhampton College handbook, printed cards, invitations, and broadsides.Of particular note within the collection are letters from two soldiers during WWII....
Dates: 1936 - 1975
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Fernande Gontier papers

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16416
Scope and Contents

The Fernande Gontier papers (1787-2005; 8.6 cubic feet) document Dr. Gontier's scholarship on Simone de Beauvoir; Colette; Etienne Cabet and his followers in Nauvoo, Illinois; Mathilde de Morny; and Comtesse Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy. The collection includes manuscript drafts, research files, correspondence, and books representing Dr. Gontier's work. Materials also include manuscripts for cookbooks co-written by Dr. Gontier. The papers are arranged into six series.

Dates: 1787 - 2005
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Goodykoontz family papers

 Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: ViU-2019-0167
Dates: 1890 - 1960
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Goodykoontz family papers

 Collection — Box BW 6, Folder: 1 [X031589280]
Identifier: MSS 16143
Scope and Contents Goodykoontz family papers (1895-1960,bulk 1912-1930) focus on Robert Goodykoontz (1884-1970), and his wife "Sara" Nelle Neal Goodykoontz (1926-1930; 0.03 cubic feet).There are 80 or more letters including 13 to Robert Goodykoontz from his sister-in-law Irene; 39 letters from his mother Lucinda Kathering Woolwine Goodykoontz; letters from family at Virginia College for Women, Harris Military Institute, Roanoke, Va., and a few letters from family members in Kansas City, Mo. Also included are...
Dates: 1895-1960
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Goss family papers

 File
Identifier: MSS 16398
Scope and Contents Note The Goss family papers (1820-2014; 4 cubic feet) contain Civil War letters and documents including a pardon for Ebenezer Walker Goss from President Andrew Johnson in 1865, manuscript receipts of goods sold to the Confederate Army, enslaved person receipts, and papers (mostly correspondence) related to their 19th and early 20th century family in Somerset, Virginia. Business records reflect their apple orchard, farming, and dairy business which was maintained by Charlotte “Lottie” Goss...
Dates: 1820-2014; Majority of material found within 1820 - 1930
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

William Gowans letter to Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan

 Collection — Box BW 52, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16766
Dates: 1845-11-03
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Grover family papers

 Collection — Box BW 18, Folder: 1 [X030899286]
Identifier: MSS 16394
Scope and Contents

The Grover family papers (1825-1917; 0.04 cubic feet) also includes papers from the Watts and Harris families. This collection contains receipts, a deed of gift for enslaved people (Dolly, and children Nancy, Elvira, and James from Mary Harris to Rosa M. N. Harris, circa 1845-47), a newspaper clipping of Preston Watt, and ration books of Bettie and William Grover. The papers came in a fabric packet stamped, “The Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance Co. of Richmond, VA” which is included.

Dates: 1825-1906, 1917
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library