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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 the Secretary of War to the President of the Senate,  June 29, 1916

 Item — Box 30: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 30
Identifier: 03030001
Scope and Contents

The Commission of Fine Arts and the Chairman of the House Committee on the Library disapprove of the monument to Reed, Carroll, Lazear, and Agramonte. They suggest a memorial fountain instead. Included is a copy of Senate Bill #6067. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  June 29, 1916
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Letter from the Secretary of War to President of the Senate with enclosed bill

Letter from the secretary to Philip Showalter Hench to Frank Carey, August 31, 1949

 Item — Box 43: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 13
Identifier: 04313004
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: August 31, 1949
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 the secretary to Philip Showalter Hench to Thurman B. Rice,  February 26, 1948

 Item — Box 42: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 5
Identifier: 04205050
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 26, 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 the Smithsonian Institution to Jefferson Randolph Kean,  April 10, 1935

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 78
Identifier: 06278002
Scope and Contents

This is an invoice to Kean for the return of a marble bust of Reed from the Smithsonian Institution to the Walter Reed Memorial Association.

Dates:  April 10, 1935
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 and Jefferson Randolph Kean

Letter from the Surgeon General to Aristides Agramonte,  March 26, 1902

 Item — Box 26: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 9
Identifier: 02609001
Scope and Contents

The Surgeon General informs Agramonte that his contract is over with the U. S. Army on April 30, 1902.

Dates:  March 26, 1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from the Surgeon General to James Carroll,  October 4, 1902

 Item — Box 26: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 37
Identifier: 02637001
Scope and Contents

O'Reilly informs Carroll that his application for appointment in the Medical Corps has been approved and that the age limit will be waived. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  October 4, 1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Letters from the Surgeon General to James Carroll

Letter from the Surgeon General to James Carroll,  October 18, 1902

 Item — Box 26: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 37
Identifier: 02637002
Scope and Contents

Carroll is to report to Dewitt for examination before the Army Medical Board. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  October 18, 1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Letters from the Surgeon General to James Carroll

Letter from the Surgeon General to Lord Julian Pauncefote,  May 14, 1901

 Item — Box 24: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 67
Identifier: 02467001
Scope and Contents

The Surgeon General forwards to Lord Julian Pauncefote twenty copies of the Report on the Etiology of Yellow Fever.

Dates:  May 14, 1901
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from the Surgeon General to P. F. Harvey,  November 14, 1906

 Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 56
Identifier: 02856001
Scope and Contents

Harvey is asked to attend, on behalf of the Corps, the dedication of the bronze memorial tablet in honor of Walter Reed at Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, New York. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  November 14, 1906
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from the Surgeon General's Office to Aristides Agramonte,  October 10, 1908

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 61
Identifier: 02961020
Scope and Contents

Agramonte is notified that his letter has been received and filed for future reference. Agramonte's letter of August 31, 1908, is included, testifying to the sequence of events in the work carried out by the Army Board on Yellow Fever. Included are two notes by Truby. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  October 10, 1908
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Correspondence of Aristides Agramonte relating to his role in the conquest of yellow fever with notes by Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from the U.S. Bureau of the Public Health Service,  June 27, 1923

 Item — Box 11: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 9
Identifier: 01109047
Scope and Contents

Notification that letter relating to cases of yellow fever in Bucaramanga, Columbia was returned to Henry Rose Carter.

Dates:  June 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 the U.S. Secretary of War to the President of the Senate concerning the erection of a monument to the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission, June 29, 1916

 Item — Box 30: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 38
Identifier: uva-lib:2225412
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: June 29, 1916
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Thelma Kindrick to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  May 31, 1927

 Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 22
Identifier: 03122021
Scope and Contents

This letter, written by a student of Edith R. Force, thanks Emilie Lawrence Reed for the life and work of Walter Reed.

Dates:  May 31, 1927
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Letters from the students of Woodrow Wilson Jr. High School to Emilie Lawrence Reed

Letter from Thelma Martens Repetti to Philip Showalter Hench, January 25, 1948

 Item — Box 145: Series uva-lib:2231610, Folder: 41
Identifier: uva-lib:2231977
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: January 25, 1948
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series XIV. P. Kahler Hench additions

Letter from Thelma Martens Repetti to Philip Showalter Hench, February 8, 1948

 Item — Box 145: Series uva-lib:2231610, Folder: 45
Identifier: uva-lib:2231981
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: February 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 Theodore C. Lyster to E.C. Houle,  February 2, 1923

 Item — Box 10: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 21
Identifier: 01021015
Scope and Contents

Lyster praises Houle and the yellow fever work in Mexico and congratulates him on the birth of a son. Lyster informs Houle that he sent a copy of the report on the yellow fever work to Carter.

Dates:  February 2, 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 Theodore C. Lyster to Henry Rose Carter, January 22, 1921

 Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 3
Identifier: 00903007
Scope and Contents

Lyster requests Carter's comments on a circular for the fish campaign and on the Rockefeller Foundation's methods in the Latin American yellow fever campaigns.

Dates: January 22, 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 from Theodore C. Lyster to Henry Rose Carter, May 13, 1921

 Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 7
Identifier: 00907025
Scope and Contents

Lyster reports on the yellow fever situation in Central and South America.

Dates: May 13, 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 from Theodore C. Lyster to Henry Rose Carter,  July 16, 1924

 Item — Box 12: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 6
Identifier: 01206009
Scope and Contents

Lyster writes that he glad to hear Carter's health has improved. He discusses the origins of yellow fever.

Dates:  July 16, 1924
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 Theodore C. Lyster to Henry Rose Carter,  November 18, 1924

 Item — Box 12: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 15
Identifier: 01215013
Scope and Contents

Lyster comments on Carter's manuscript. He agrees with Carter's theory regarding the origins of yellow fever.

Dates:  November 18, 1924
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