letters (correspondence)
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Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to George E. Armstrong, August 12, 1952
Hench informs Armstrong about the Camp Lazear memorial and his concern about the park and Building No. 1 being named after Finlay. Hench believes that the Army Medical Corps and the State Department should participate in the dedication. He encloses an extensive report on the impending memorialization of Camp Lazear and the participation of the U.S. Army and State Department in the ceremony.
Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to George E. Armstrong, September 10, 1952
Hench informs Armstrong that he has not heard from Nogueira. Hench hopes that Armstrong can come to the dedication of Camp Lazear.
Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to George E. Armstrong, September 29, 1952
Hench writes to Armstrong that he has just received a cable from Nogueira informing him that the dedication of Camp Lazear has been postponed until December 3, 1952. Hench is concerned that Finlay will overshadow the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission because December 3 is Finlay's birthday and "Physicians' Day" in Cuba.
Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to George E. Armstrong, January 15, 1953
Hench writes about the Camp Lazear dedication. He hopes that the ceremony will help ease Cuban-American tensions surrounding the Reed-Finlay debate.
Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to George E. Armstrong, December 10, 1953
Hench explains why he has not yet written his book on yellow fever. The delay is the result of the discovery of the Lazear notebook and his desire to learn more about Finlay.
Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to George E. Armstrong, January 11, 1954
Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to George F. Hair, August 13, 1943
Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to George K. Strode, November 13, 1947
Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to George K. Strode, June 17, 1947
Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to George K. Strode, December 10, 1947
Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to George K. Strode, November 20, 1952
Hench hopes that Strode, or one of his Rockefeller Foundation associates, will attend the Camp Lazear dedication. In his speech Hench plans to credit Finlay with the mosquito theory and Reed with its proof.
Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to George P. Berry, January 17, 1953
Hench commends Berry on his choice of Caswell to represent the Harvard Medical School at the Camp Lazear dedication. He is sending Berry some material from the ceremony and will send pictures if desired. He would like to be reimbursed for the wreath honoring Leonard Wood.
Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to George P. Berry, March 23, 1953
Hench informs Berry that Maass was an experimental case of yellow fever, but that Ames did not have experimental yellow fever. Furthermore, it is not certain that he had yellow fever at all. Hench suggests that if Ames meets the criteria for a Walter Reed Society award, he would also favor honoring Hanberry, Kissinger, Moran, and Jernegan.
Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to George P. Berry, March 28, 1953
Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to George P. Berry, November 19, 1952
Hench inquires whether the Medical School of Harvard University might wish to have a representative place a wreath under the medallion of Wood during the dedication ceremonies of Camp Lazear. Wood graduated from Harvard Medical School in the late 1880s.