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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 fragment from Walter Reed to Emilie Lawrence Reed July 21,  July 21, 1879

 Item — Box 17: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 49
Identifier: 01749001
Scope and Contents

Reed writes about finances, promising to send money to her. She wants him to get an eastern assignment. He gives news about acquaintances.

Dates:  July 21, 1879
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter fragment from [William Crawford Gorgas] to Jefferson Randolph Kean,  September 17, 1906

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 18
Identifier: 06218001
Scope and Contents

[Gorgas] writes about political maneuverings for staff appointments and promotions, and recognition for James Carroll.

Dates:  September 17, 1906
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench

Letter fragment to Albert E. Truby,  July 15, 1936

 Item — Box 33: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 49
Identifier: 03349001
Scope and Contents

The writer urges Truby to place his yellow fever correspondence in an archive for safekeeping and compliments Kean personally and professionally.

Dates:  July 15, 1936
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter fragment to Florence M. Read, June 9, 1921

 Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 12
Identifier: 00912001
Scope and Contents

This letter concerns qualifications of yellow fever workers.

Dates: June 9, 1921
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 to from Walter Reed to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  December 9, 1900

 Item — Box 22: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 31
Identifier: 02231001
Scope and Contents

Reed announces the first proven case of yellow fever from a mosquito bite. The diagnosis of the case will be tested by experts.

Dates:  December 9, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter fragment to Henry Rose Carter, May 26, 1917

 Item — Box 8: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 11
Identifier: 00811033
Scope and Contents

Carter is ordered to attend the Society of Tropical Medicine conference and the National Malaria Committee meeting.

Dates: May 26, 1917
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 to Henry Rose Carter,  January 10, 1922

 Item — Box 10: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 18
Identifier: 01018007
Scope and Contents

The writer praises Carter's work, entitled "El Doctor de Guadalupe." The writer also notes the contributions, in Peru, of Hanson and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Dates:  January 10, 1922
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 to [Henry Rose Carter, Jr.], August 12, 1916

 Item — Box 8: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 3
Identifier: 00803069
Scope and Contents

The writer discusses social conditions in South America.

Dates: August 12, 1916
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 to Howard A. Kelly,  March 4, 1905

 Item — Box 27: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 52
Identifier: 02752001
Scope and Contents

The writer informs Kelly about a yellow fever epidemic in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1855.

Dates:  March 4, 1905
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter fragment to Mabel H. Lazear, January 10, 1928

 Item — Box 4: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 60
Identifier: 00460001
Scope and Contents

The writer reports that an effort is underway to increase the annuities of the yellow fever investigators, volunteers, and their relatives.

Dates: January 10, 1928
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series I. Jesse W. Lazear

Letter fragment to Margaret Deland,  January 16, 1928

 Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 41
Identifier: 03141001
Scope and Contents

The writer informs Deland that he is continuing to lobby Congress for the pension bill.

Dates:  January 16, 1928
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter fragment to [s.n.] Thurlow, January 8, 1915

 Item — Box 7: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 64
Identifier: 00764001
Scope and Contents

The writer suggests field work instead of lab work.

Dates: January 8, 1915
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 to William Crawford Gorgas,  July 3, 1911

 Item — Box 30: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 1
Identifier: 03001001
Scope and Contents

Gorgas has been offered the presidency of the University of Alabama.

Dates:  July 3, 1911
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Correspondence relating to the offer of the Presidency of the University of Alabama to William Crawford Gorgas

Letter fragment to [William M. Brumby],  April 16, 1956

 Item — Box 49: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 4
Identifier: 04904020
Scope and Contents

The author does not believe that Ames was ever officially transferred to the Board. However, he does think that no one could have done the work of caring for the yellow fever patients as well as Ames.

Dates:  April 16, 1956
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 fragments from Henry Rose Carter to his family, circa 1880-1900

 File — Box 13: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 13
Identifier: uva-lib:2223841
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series II. Henry Rose Carter consists of materials relating to Henry Rose Carter that Philip Showalter Hench collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1880 to 1932 with the bulk of the materials dating from 1883 to 1932. The series is particularly rich in materials that document Henry Rose Carter's professional activities in the last eleven years of his life (1914-1925). These materials include, but are not limited to the...
Dates: circa 1880-1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter

Letter from A. B. Darragh to Elihu Root,  October 26, 1901

 Item — Box 24: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 1
Identifier: 02401037
Scope and Contents

Darragh requests that Root detail Walter Reed to attend a medical conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan in order to present a paper about his yellow fever research. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  October 26, 1901
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Military orders for Walter Reed

Letter from a biology class of Johnson High School to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  June 8, 1927

 Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 18
Identifier: 03118001
Scope and Contents

The students thank Emilie Lawrence Reed for Walter Reed's work and sacrifice.

Dates:  June 8, 1927
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Letters from a biology class of Johnson High School to Emilie Lawrence Reed

Letter from A. Connal to Frederick F. Russell,  September 27, 1923

 Item — Box 10: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 21
Identifier: 01021067
Scope and Contents

Connal sends pathological specimens from another possible African yellow fever case. He thanks Russell for consulting with Noguchi and Darling concerning the previous case.

Dates:  September 27, 1923
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 from A. Connal to Wickliffe Rose,  January 17, 1923

 Item — Box 10: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 18
Identifier: 01018014
Scope and Contents

Connal will send information on yellow fever cases to Noguchi.

Dates:  January 17, 1923
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 from A. Connal to Wickliffe Rose,  June 7, 1923

 Item — Box 10: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 21
Identifier: 01021063
Scope and Contents

Connal discusses the pathological reports of a possible yellow fever case in Lagos.

Dates:  June 7, 1923
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