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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 6940 Collections and/or Records:

Letter from Robert U. Patterson to John J. Moran,  June 13, 1934

 Item — Box 33: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 17
Identifier: 03317001
Scope and Contents

Patterson thanks Moran for the donation of his yellow fever certificate to the Army Medical Library.

Dates:  June 13, 1934
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Robert U. Patterson to William Duffield Robinson,  July 17, 1925

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 69
Identifier: 06269039
Scope and Contents

Patterson corrects Robinson's statement that Gorgas discovered the means of transmission for yellow fever.

Dates:  July 17, 1925
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Jefferson Randolph Kean

Letter from Robert Wilson, Jr. to Hagood, Rivers and Young,  September 30, 1916

 Item — Box 30: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 34
Identifier: 03034001
Scope and Contents

Wilson relates findings that timbering in the Little Salkehatchie did not increase prevalence of malaria.

Dates:  September 30, 1916
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

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

 Item — Box 36: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 16
Identifier: 03616012
Scope and Contents

Brooke writes that he would like to receive copies of Hench's memorandum on the yellow fever experiments.

Dates:  September 14, 1940
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous letters received by Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Roger Post Ames to Surgeon General, December 30, 1901

 Item — Box 25: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 57
Identifier: uva-lib:2224806
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series III. Walter Reed consists of materials that document the life of Walter Reed as well as the work and legacy of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. Items in the series date from 1806 to around 1955 with the bulk of the items dating from 1874 to 1936. The series is particularly rich in materials that document the professional and personal life of Walter Reed from 1874 to his death in 1902. These materials include, but are not limited to the following:...
Dates: December 30, 1901
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Roger Post Ames to Surgeon General, January 16, 1904

 Item — Box 27: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 20
Identifier: uva-lib:2224986
Scope and Contents

Report of yellow fever at Laredo, Texas and among troops at Ft. Mcintosh, Texas.

Dates: January 16, 1904
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Ronald Ross to Henry Young & Sons,  February 7, 1921

 Item — Box 30: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 57
Identifier: 03057001
Scope and Contents

Ross sends a photograph of himself for Kelly. He provides a journal reference for his work on malaria.

Dates:  February 7, 1921
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Ross A. McFarland to Philip Showalter Hench,  August 13, 1948

 Item — Box 42: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 26
Identifier: 04226004
Scope and Contents

McFarland has been unable to obtain the aerial photograph that Hench requested, but will ask Pan American Airways to take one for him.

Dates:  August 13, 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 Roswell P. Bishop to [Elihu Root],  October 24, 1901

 Item — Box 24: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 1
Identifier: 02401026
Scope and Contents

Bishop requests, on behalf of Victor C. Vaughan, that Walter Reed be detailed to attend a medical conference at Ann Arbor, Michigan in order to present a paper on his yellow fever research. A copy of Vaughan's letter of October 23, 1901 is enclosed. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  October 24, 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 Roy M. Reeve to Philip Showalter Hench,  circa 1942

 Item — Box 39: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 9
Identifier: 03909037
Scope and Contents

Reeve sends Hench the copies he requested.

Dates:  circa 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 Roy Watson to T. James Ennis,  December 20, 1951

 Item — Box 43: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 84
Identifier: 04384006
Scope and Contents

Watson requests that Ennis provide top-quality service for the Hench's when they visit the Hotel Nacional, in Havana, Cuba.

Dates:  December 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 Royal S. Webster to Philip Showalter Hench,  October 24, 1940

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 5
Identifier: 03805005
Scope and Contents

Webster informs Hench that the railway company does not plan to remove a portion of the track near the Military Hospital. He thanks him for his kind remarks during Hench's address at the dedication of the memorial at Washington and Jefferson College.

Dates:  October 24, 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 Royal S. Webster to Philip Showalter Hench,  September 26, 1940

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 5
Identifier: 03805008
Scope and Contents

Webster makes some small corrections on Hench's sketch of Camp Lazear. He sends him various maps of Marianao.

Dates:  September 26, 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 Royal S. Webster to Philip Showalter Hench,  March 12, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 7
Identifier: 03807006
Scope and Contents

Webster apologizes for the delay in answering Hench's last letter. He has not yet met with Moran.

Dates:  March 12, 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 R.P. Cook to Philip Showalter Hench, April 8, 1948

 Item — Box 145: Series uva-lib:2231610, Folder: 60
Identifier: uva-lib:2231996
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series XIV. P. Kahler Hench additions consists of original and photocopied materials that Philip Showalter Hench's son, P. Kahler Hench, donated to the University of Virginia in 1988 and 1989. Items in the series date from around 1860 to 1965 with the bulk of the materials dating from 1898 to 1965. Most of these items were collected or created by Philip Showalter Hench while researching the yellow fever experiments. These items include the following: ...
Dates: April 8, 1948
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series XIV. P. Kahler Hench additions

Letter from R.S. Galbreath to Philip Showalter Hench,  August 16, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 24
Identifier: 03824002
Scope and Contents

Galbreath comments on John Kissinger's medical condition and Ida Kissinger's personality.

Dates:  August 16, 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 R.S. Webster to Philip Showalter Hench,  August 22, 1940

 Item — Box 35: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 93
Identifier: 03593001
Scope and Contents

Webster encloses the Cuban railway plans which are near Camps Columbia and Lazear, and gives some additional information concerning the various sites.

Dates:  August 22, 1940
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from R.U. Patterson to Emilie Lawrence Reed, May 8, 1924

 Item — Box 53: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 10
Identifier: uva-lib:2229239
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: May 8, 1924
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Rudie Kampmeier to Philip Showalter Hench with enclosed article about Robert P. Cooke, October 12, 1964

 File — Box 66: Series uva-lib:2230196, Folder: 51
Identifier: uva-lib:2230243
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series VIII. Miscellany consists of oversize and miscellaneous materials in the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed yellow fever collection that were, for various reasons, not included in any of the other series in the collection. Items in this series date from around 1849 to 1982 with the bulk of the materials dating from 1885 to 1974. These materials include, but are not limited to the following: informed...
Dates: October 12, 1964
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series VIII. Miscellany

Letter from Rudolph Kleberg,  July 1, 1907

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 31
Identifier: 02931009
Scope and Contents

Kleberg sends a contribution for Kissinger.

Dates:  July 1, 1907
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Correspondence relating to contributions for the support of John R. Kissinger