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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 Robert P. Cooke,  March 8, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 7
Identifier: 03807018
Scope and Contents

Hench wants Cooke to look over his report to prove the actual location of Camp Lazear. The report will be presented to Ramos in Cuba. Hench requests that Cooke write to Ramos if he supports Hench's claim.

Dates:  March 8, 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 Robert P. Cooke,  March 21, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 7
Identifier: 03807029
Scope and Contents

Hench asks Cooke to edit his letter to Ramos, requesting that he emphasize Finlay's contribution.

Dates:  March 21, 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 Robert P. Cooke,  November 22, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 34
Identifier: 03834025
Scope and Contents

Hench sends Cooke reprints of his yellow fever article and refers to a large copy of the Cornwell painting sent to Cooke by Kellogg. He discusses future research plans for his yellow fever investigation. Hench informs Cooke that Truby's autobiography will be published shortly.

Dates:  November 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 Robert P. Cooke,  January 24, 1948

 Item — Box 58: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 11
Identifier: 05811106
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:  January 24, 1948
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VI. Alphabetical files / Materials relating to Robert Page Cooke

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Robert P. Cooke,  December 1, 1944

 Item — Box 58: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 11
Identifier: 05811019
Scope and Contents

Hench asks Cooke to identify people in a photograph taken at Camp Lazear. He includes a letter from Truby to Hench in which Truby identifies the people.

Dates:  December 1, 1944
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VI. Alphabetical files / Materials relating to Robert Page Cooke

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Robert P. Cooke,  December 11, 1947

 Item — Box 58: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 11
Identifier: 05811032
Scope and Contents

Hench requests Cooke's help in identifying photographs taken at Pinar del Rio. Hench is interested because Haskins, a prisoner at Pinar del Rio, died of yellow fever, but his cell-mates escaped the disease. This impressed Reed with the possibilities of the mosquito theory.

Dates:  December 11, 1947
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VI. Alphabetical files / Materials relating to Robert Page Cooke

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Robert S. Gill,  June 18, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 17
Identifier: 03817018
Scope and Contents

Hench thanks Gill for loaning him the Dominguez manuscript on Finlay, and would like to be informed when a publication decision is made.

Dates:  June 18, 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 Robert S. Gill,  July 16, 1942

 Item — Box 40: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 5
Identifier: 04005010
Scope and Contents

Hench returns Dominguez' manuscript on Finlay to Gill and is glad efforts will be made to publish it in English.

Dates:  July 16, 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 Robert S. Gill,  July 16, 1942

 Item — Box 40: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 5
Identifier: 04005012
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 16, 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 Robert Usher,  November 1, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 34
Identifier: 03834001
Scope and Contents

Hench sends Usher a reprint of his yellow fever article and requests references on yellow fever in New Orleans.

Dates:  November 1, 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 Rodolfo Matas,  November 4, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 34
Identifier: 03834046
Scope and Contents

Hench requests reprints of anything Matas has published on yellow fever, and is especially anxious to have a copy of his tribute to Finlay.

Dates:  November 4, 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 Roger Brooke,  September 12, 1940

 Item — Box 36: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 17
Identifier: 03617006
Scope and Contents

Hench thanks Brooke for the photo of the Camp Columbia model and asks if he may send a copy of it to the Cuban government.

Dates:  September 12, 1940
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous letters sent by Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Roger Brooke,  August 14, 1940

 Item — Box 35: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 84
Identifier: 03584001
Scope and Contents

Hench sends photographs of the Camp Columbia model to Carlisle Barracks, to assist the curator in assembling the model properly for more photographs.

Dates:  August 14, 1940
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Ross A. McFarland,  March 23, 1948

 Item — Box 42: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 12
Identifier: 04212040
Scope and Contents

Hench relates his attempts to locate an aerial photograph of Marianao. Hench thanks McFarland for the suggestion to write the American Geographic Society and asks McFarland if he thinks Hench should correspond with the Pan-American office, in New York.

Dates:  March 23, 1948
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 Roy M. Reeve,  June 25, 1940

 Item — Box 35: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 60
Identifier: 03560001
Scope and Contents

Hench thanks Reeve for the photographs of Walter Reed, Camp Columbia and Camp Lazear. He will send copies of his research information and photographs to the Museum and to the University of Virginia.

Dates:  June 25, 1940
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 concerning photographs relating to his yellow fever research

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Roy M. Reeve,  March 4, 1942

 Item — Box 39: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 9
Identifier: 03909009
Scope and Contents

Hench thanks Reeve for the photostats.

Dates:  March 4, 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 Royal S. Webster,  March 3, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 5
Identifier: 03805001
Scope and Contents

Hench discusses his report on the true location of Camp Lazear. He requests additional information from Webster.

Dates:  March 3, 1941
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 with Royal S. Webster

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Royal S. Webster,  October 21, 1940

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 5
Identifier: 03805006
Scope and Contents

Hench thanks Webster for his help in finding the location of Camp Lazear and in identifying the "false camp." Hench discusses his plans to honor the site of Lazear's death.

Dates:  October 21, 1940
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 with Royal S. Webster

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Royal S. Webster,  September 18, 1940

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 5
Identifier: 03805010
Scope and Contents

Hench thanks Webster for finding the old maps of the Havana Railroad. Hench is searching for information regarding the locations around Cuba that were once connected with the yellow fever experiments.

Dates:  September 18, 1940
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 with Royal S. Webster

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Royal S. Webster,  August 14, 1940

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 5
Identifier: 03805011
Scope and Contents

Hench describes his yellow fever project to Webster. He discusses his theory regarding the true location of Camp Lazear. Hench inquires if there is a map of the area from circa 1900, showing the relationship of this railroad track to the dimensions of Columbia Barracks.

Dates:  August 14, 1940
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 with Royal S. Webster