letters (correspondence)
Subject
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 the Adjutant General to the Comissioner of Pensions, September 5, 1901
Item — Box 3: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 90
Identifier: uva-lib:2222250
Scope and Contents
Letter concerns the award of a pension to Mabel H. Lazear.
Dates:
September 5, 1901
Letter from the Assistant Adjutant General to the Commanding Officer of Fort Myer, November 24, 1902
Item — Box 26: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 28
Identifier: 02628018
Scope and Contents
The Secretary of War details the arrangements for Reed's funeral procession.
Dates:
November 24, 1902
Letter from the Assistant Adjutant General to Walter Reed, October 20, 1900
Item — Box 23: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 6
Identifier: 02306013
Scope and Contents
Reed is ordered to return to Washington, D.C. instead returning to his proper station in Cuba. This is an amendment to Special Orders #246. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]
Dates:
October 20, 1900
Letter from the Assistant Secretary of War to the [Portuguese Minister], June 4, 1901
Item — Box 25: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 2
Identifier: 02502001
Scope and Contents
The Assistant Secretary of War sends two copies of “The Etiology of Yellow Fever.”
Dates:
June 4, 1901
Letter from the Assistant Surgeon General to Aristides Agramonte, June 3, 1903
Item — Box 26: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 71
Identifier: 02671001
Scope and Contents
Agramonte is informed that his contract as surgeon will terminate June 15, 1903.
Dates:
June 3, 1903
Letter from The Bettman Archive to Philip Showalter Hench, December 8, 1947
Item — Box 41: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 43
Identifier: 04143002
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:
December 8, 1947
Letter from the Bettmann Archive to Philip Showalter Hench, April 26, 1948
Item — Box 42: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 14
Identifier: 04214065
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:
April 26, 1948
Letter from The Bettmann Archive to Philip Showalter Hench, August 2, 1948
Item — Box 42: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 26
Identifier: 04226002
Scope and Contents
The Bettmann Archive requests that Hench return original documents related to yellow fever.
Dates:
August 2, 1948
Letter from the Bettmann Archive to Philip Showalter Hench, September 14, 1948
Item — Box 42: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 27
Identifier: 04227006
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:
September 14, 1948
Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Surgeon's General's Office to N. M. Miller, circa December 4, 1915
Item — Box 30: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 25
Identifier: 03025005
Scope and Contents
Permission is sought to photograph the painting of Walter Reed recently completed by Miller. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]
Dates:
circa December 4, 1915
Letter from the Chief Quarantine Officer to [Rupert Blue], February 13, 1916
Item — Box 30: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 26
Identifier: 03026001
Scope and Contents
The Chief Quarantine Officer relates information on a case of yellow fever and notes disagreement over the diagnosis.
Dates:
February 13, 1916
Letter from the Chief Sanitary Officer of Cuba to Local Sanitary Officers, July 20, 1908
Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 46
Identifier: 02946001
Scope and Contents
Finlay details actions taken to prevent yellow fever.
Dates:
July 20, 1908
Letter from the Chief Sanitary Officer to the Chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commission, April 24, 1905
Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 6
Identifier: 02806002
Scope and Contents
The Chief Sanitary Officer requests that Shimer be assigned duty in the Sanitary Department.
Dates:
April 24, 1905
Letter from the Designing Engineer of the Alabama Power Company to Henry Rose Carter, January 20, 1915
Item — Box 7: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 64
Identifier: 00764005
Scope and Contents
The Designing Engineer reports that he has been unable to obtain samples of fish from local ponds.
Dates:
January 20, 1915
Letter from the Director-General of Health of Australia to Henry Rose Carter, January 28, 1925
Item — Box 12: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 20
Identifier: 01220015
Scope and Contents
The Director will send Carter a copy of the Pan-Pacific Transactions when they are ready.
Dates:
January 28, 1925
Letter from the Editors ofOutlookto Howard A. Kelly, July 24, 1907
Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 93
Identifier: 02893002
Scope and Contents
The Editors of Outlook forward a contribution for Kissinger to Kelly.
Dates:
July 24, 1907
Letter from the Executive Committee of the Walter Reed Memorial Association, January 1905
Item — Box 143: Series uva-lib:2231610, Folder: 57
Identifier: uva-lib:2231865
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:
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Dates:
January 1905
Letter from the Gibson Bros. to George A. Jones, April 26, 1901
Item — Box 24: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 64
Identifier: 02464002
Scope and Contents
Gibson Bros. informs Jones that the cost for “The Etiology of Yellow Fever” pamphlets will be $46.00.
Dates:
April 26, 1901
Letter from the Governor of the Panama Canal Zone to John J. Moran, September 15, 1904
Item — Box 27: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 27
Identifier: 02727001
Scope and Contents
Moran is appointed clerk in the Canal Zone Health Department.
Dates:
September 15, 1904
Letter from the James O. Gawne and Jane L. Gawne to Philip Showalter Hench, February 7, 1955
Item — Box 48: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 4
Identifier: 04804003
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:
February 7, 1955