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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 from Philip Showalter Hench to the Chief of the Forestry Department,  August 28, 1940

 Item — Box 36: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 1
Identifier: 03601008
Scope and Contents

Hench requests help in assessing the age of framboyant trees.

Dates:  August 28, 1940
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 the Chief of the Photographic Department,  December 30, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 39
Identifier: 03839048
Scope and Contents

Hench requests permission to examine the photographs that the Signal Corps of the Army took at Columbia Barracks, the Post Hospital and Camp Lazear from 1899 to 1901.

Dates:  December 30, 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 the Chief of the War Department's Map Collection,  June 23, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 17
Identifier: 03817022
Scope and Contents

Hench requests copies of Camp Columbia maps for himself and for the Cuban Chief of Engineers of Military City. He explains his research on the yellow fever experiments and Camp Lazear.

Dates:  June 23, 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 the Chief of the War Department's Map Collection,  May 23, 1941

 Item — Box 63: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 2
Identifier: 06302111
Scope and Contents

Hench seeks assistance in locating maps of Camp Columbia and summarizes his discovery of the lost Camp Lazear.

Dates:  May 23, 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 from Philip Showalter Hench to the Commanding General of the Army and Navy General Hospital, June 9, 1945

 Item — Box 40: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 62
Identifier: 04062008
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: June 9, 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 the Commanding Officer,  June 25, 1940

 Item — Box 35: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 60
Identifier: 03560004
Scope and Contents

Hench requests photographs of a model of Camp Columbia, which is now at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, and other information about Camp Lazear.

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 the Committee on Trips,  November 4, 1952

 Item — Box 44: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 33
Identifier: 04433001
Scope and Contents

Hench requests permission from the Mayo Clinic Committee on Trips to attend the dedication of Camp Lazear, explaining his involvement with the preservation efforts. He has been invited by the Cuban government to speak at the ceremony.

Dates:  November 4, 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 The [Cuban] Academy of Sciences,  August 29, 1955

 Item — Box 48: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 12
Identifier: 04812014
Scope and Contents

Hench requests from the Academy of Sciences the microfilm of Finlay's daybooks written during the yellow fever investigation. He indicates that he would not be able to complete his book without knowing the contents of these daybooks.

Dates:  August 29, 1955
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 the Curator of the Army Medical Museum,  June 4, 1940

 Item — Box 35: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 55
Identifier: 03555001
Scope and Contents

Hench offers copies of his yellow fever research material to the Army Medical Museum.

Dates:  June 4, 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 the Department of Agriculture,  August 13, 1940

 Item — Box 35: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 78
Identifier: 03578001
Scope and Contents

Hench seeks permission from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to bring pieces of wood from the framboyant tree on the supposed site of Camp Lazear into the United States.

Dates:  August 13, 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 the Department of Public Education at the American Museum of Natural History,  August 26, 1940

 Item — Box 36: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 1
Identifier: 03601001
Scope and Contents

Hench requests copies of pamphlets and slides to use in the dedication of the Lazear Memorial.

Dates:  August 26, 1940
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 the Director of Finance of the Veterans' Administration,  August 26, 1940

 Item — Box 36: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 1
Identifier: 03601007
Scope and Contents

Hench requests help obtaining the addresses of Mabel Lazear and the family of James Carroll.

Dates:  August 26, 1940
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 the Editor of the Army Register,  September 22, 1937

 Item — Box 34: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 38
Identifier: 03438001
Scope and Contents

Hench requests a copy of the 1937 Army Roll of Honor and the addresses of surviving participants in the yellow fever experiments.

Dates:  September 22, 1937
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Correspondence between Philip Showalter Hench and the Editor of the Army Register

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to the Filing Department,  September 13, 1940

 Item — Box 36: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 17
Identifier: 03617010
Scope and Contents

Hench inquires about obtaining photos of William H. Dean from a newspaper article.

Dates:  September 13, 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 the Government Printing Office,  July 6, 1937

 Item — Box 34: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 18
Identifier: 03418001
Scope and Contents

Hench requests a copy of the report of the Yellow Fever Commission.

Dates:  July 6, 1937
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 the International Varadero Hotel,  August 20, 1951

 Item — Box 43: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 65
Identifier: 04365021
Scope and Contents

Hench requests brochures for the hotel.

Dates:  August 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 the Librarian of the City Library in Indianapolis, Indiana,  August 26, 1940

 Item — Box 36: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 1
Identifier: 03601005
Scope and Contents

Hench requests the Indianapolis newspaper reports about Reed's 1900 American Public Health Association paper.

Dates:  August 26, 1940
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 the Librarian of the Main Public Library in Detroit, Michigan,  August 26, 1940

 Item — Box 36: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 1
Identifier: 03601003
Scope and Contents

Hench requests newspaper information on William H. Dean.

Dates:  August 26, 1940
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 the Librarian of the New York Public Library,  August 26, 1940

 Item — Box 36: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 1
Identifier: 03601006
Scope and Contents

Hench requests Havana newspapers from 1900.

Dates:  August 26, 1940
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 the Librarian of the Surgeon General's Library,  September 17, 1940

 Item — Box 36: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 17
Identifier: 03617015
Scope and Contents

Hench asks to borrow E.B. Barnet's history of Las Animas Hospital. He comments on the role of Finlay in yellow fever research.

Dates:  September 17, 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