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letters (correspondence)

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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 6939 Collections and/or Records:

Letter fragment from Jesse W. Lazear to Charlotte C. Sweitzer, June 14, 1890

 Item — Box 1: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 34
Identifier: 00134001
Scope and Contents

Lazear compares his classes in medical school with those in New York.

Dates: June 14, 1890
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series I. Jesse W. Lazear

Letter fragment from Jesse W. Lazear to Mabel H. Lazear, July 15, 1900

 Item — Box 3: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 34
Identifier: 00334001
Scope and Contents

Lazear reports that Reed has them working on Sanarelli's bacillus, but he wants to discover the real organism. He offers his opinion of Carroll.

Dates: July 15, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series I. Jesse W. Lazear

Letter fragment from [Jesse W. Lazear] to Mabel H. Lazear, August 23, 1900

 Item — Box 3: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 41
Identifier: 00341001
Scope and Contents

[Lazear] disagrees with Reed and Carroll's concentration on Sanarelli's work. He believes that the true cause of yellow fever lies elsewhere.

Dates: August 23, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series I. Jesse W. Lazear

Letter fragment from Jesse W. Lazear to Mabel H. Lazear, September 8, 1900

 Item — Box 3: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 44
Identifier: 00344001
Scope and Contents

Lazear believes he is on the track of the yellow fever germ but this news must be kept secret for now.

Dates: September 8, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series I. Jesse W. Lazear

Letter fragment from Jesse W. Lazear to Mabel Houston, August 16, 1896

 Item — Box 2: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 20
Identifier: 00220001
Scope and Contents

Lazear writes about working in Baltimore and his devotion to Mabel Houston.

Dates: August 16, 1896
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series I. Jesse W. Lazear

Letter fragment from John H. Andrus to Albert E. Truby,  October 26, 1941

 Item — Box 58: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 6
Identifier: 05806053
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:  October 26, 1941
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series VI. Alphabetical files / Materials relating to John H. Andrus

Letter fragment from Joseph A. LePrince to [Henry Rose Carter],  circa 1923

 Item — Box 11: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 36
Identifier: 01136001
Scope and Contents

LePrince discusses field work in Texas to control the outbreak of yellow fever.

Dates:  circa 1923
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter

Letter fragment from [Laura Armistead Carter] to Frederick F. Russell,  December 16, 1929

 Item — Box 32: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 20
Identifier: 03220001
Scope and Contents

[Laura Carter] writes to Russell concerning her planned completion of her father's unfinished history of yellow fever.

Dates:  December 16, 1929
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter fragment from [Laura Armistead Carter] to Howard A. Kelly,  August 15, 1927

 Item — Box 13: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 1
Identifier: 01301001
Scope and Contents

[Laura Carter] discusses the location of her father's manuscripts and refers Kelly to Frost.

Dates:  August 15, 1927
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter

Letter fragment from Laura Reed Blincoe to Howard A. Kelly,  January 30, 1903

 Item — Box 26: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 64
Identifier: 02664001
Scope and Contents

Blincoe provides recollections of Walter Reed's childhood.

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

Letter fragment from [Mabel H. Lazear] to Amory H. Hutchinson, circa 1908

 Item — Box 4: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 44
Identifier: 00444034
Scope and Contents

Mabel Lazear expresses appreciation for the play about her husband, Jesse Lazear.

Dates: circa 1908
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series I. Jesse W. Lazear / Letters and documents relating to a pension for Mabel H. Lazear

Letter fragment from Merritte W. Ireland to Albert E. Truby,  September 6, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 27
Identifier: 03827002
Scope and Contents

Ireland compliments Truby on his manuscript about his experiences with the Yellow Fever Commission.

Dates:  September 6, 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 fragment from Paul L. Tate,  circa 1954

 Item — Box 47: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 32
Identifier: 04732007
Scope and Contents

Tate finds fault with Howard's play about yellow fever.

Dates:  circa 1954
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Essays and letters by Paul L. Tate relating to the yellow fever experiments

Letter fragment from [Paul L. Tate] to William M. Brumby,  circa 1954

 Item — Box 47: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 32
Identifier: 04732005
Scope and Contents

[Tate] thinks it is a shame that worthy men such as Finlay, Ames, and Lambert were not included in the Yellow Fever Roll of Honor.

Dates:  circa 1954
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Essays and letters by Paul L. Tate relating to the yellow fever experiments

Letter [fragment] from Philip Showalter Hench to Laura Wood,  September 19, 1941

 Item — Box 63: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 6
Identifier: 06306097
Scope and Contents

Hench discusses who was present when Moran was bitten by a mosquito. He believes the experiments themselves were meticulously done, but the records were either poorly kept or poorly preserved.

Dates:  September 19, 1941
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Albert E. Truby, Jefferson Randolph Kean, and Philip Showalter Hench

Letter fragment from Samuel Taylor Darling, circa 1919

 Item — Box 8: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 18
Identifier: 00818006
Scope and Contents

Darling writes that he has not found abnormalities in blood of yellow fever cases. He had hoped to join the yellow fever work, but has been advised to stay with Department of Hygiene, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Dates: circa 1919
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 fragment from [s.n.] to [Howard A. Kelly?],  December 13, 1906

 Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 62
Identifier: 02862001
Scope and Contents

Convening of Medical Legislative Council delayed; unable to meet recipient [letter incomplete].

Dates:  December 13, 1906
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter fragment from Thomas C. Lazear to Mabel H. Lazear, circa May 26, 1908

 Item — Box 4: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 43
Identifier: 00443001
Scope and Contents

Thomas Lazear writes that Representative Dalzell guided the pension bill through the House.

Dates: circa May 26, 1908
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series I. Jesse W. Lazear

Letter fragment from Walter Reed to [Dorsey M. McPherson],  October 20, 1879

 Item — Box 17: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 56
Identifier: 01756001
Scope and Contents

Reed learns that McPherson will return to Fort Apache. Reed refers to other soldiers, and teases McPherson.

Dates:  October 20, 1879
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter fragment from [Walter Reed] to [Dorsey M. McPherson],  circa 1880

 Item — Box 17: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 75
Identifier: 01775001
Scope and Contents

Reed teases McPherson and writes that he cannot take more leave to be McPherson's best man. Reed will travel to Warrenton, Virginia and to White Sulphur Springs.

Dates:  circa 1880
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed