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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 6940 Collections and/or Records:

Letter from Walter Reed to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  February 5, 1901

 Item — Box 141: Series uva-lib:2231610, Folder: 46
Identifier: 14146001
Scope and Contents

Reed describes the triumph of the Yellow Fever Commission's work, and a Congressional resolution of appreciation.

Dates:  February 5, 1901
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series XIV. P. Kahler Hench additions

Letter from Walter Reed to Emilie Lawrence Reed, February 5, 1901

 Item — Box 141: Series uva-lib:2231610, Folder: 51
Identifier: uva-lib:2231661
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 5, 1901
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series XIV. P. Kahler Hench additions

Letter from Walter Reed to Emilie Lawrence Reed, February 5, 1901

 Item — Box 141: Series uva-lib:2231610, Folder: 52
Identifier: uva-lib:2231662
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 5, 1901
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series XIV. P. Kahler Hench additions

Letter from Walter Reed to Emilie Lawrence Reed, February 5, 1901

 Item — Box 141: Series uva-lib:2231610, Folder: 53
Identifier: uva-lib:2231663
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 5, 1901
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series XIV. P. Kahler Hench additions

Letter from Walter Reed to Emilie Lawrence Reed, February 5, 1901

 Item — Box 141: Series uva-lib:2231610, Folder: 54
Identifier: uva-lib:2231664
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 5, 1901
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series XIV. P. Kahler Hench additions

Letter from Walter Reed to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  January 3, 1901

 Item — Box 24: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 3
Identifier: 02403001
Scope and Contents

Reed mentions the sixth case of experimental yellow fever, and that volunteers have gone thirty-five days without contracting yellow fever in the infected clothing test. He describes the condition of a yellow fever case and an experiment with blood injection.

Dates:  January 3, 1901
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Walter Reed to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  January 5, 1901

 Item — Box 24: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 4
Identifier: 02404001
Scope and Contents

Reassures her; date of his return; safety of experiments; difficulties attendant on her visiting; he will return soon, in about five weeks.

Dates:  January 5, 1901
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Walter Reed to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  January 7, 1901

 Item — Box 24: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 6
Identifier: 02406001
Scope and Contents

Reed discusses finances, and Emilie Lawrence Reed's loneliness. He reviews logistical questions regarding her possible visit to Cuba, and teases her.

Dates:  January 7, 1901
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Walter Reed to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  January 11, 1900

 Item — Box 24: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 14
Identifier: 02414001
Scope and Contents

Reed discusses finances and his plans for Keewaydin. He describes a visit inland and jokes about his weight.

Dates:  January 11, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Walter Reed to Emilie Lawrence Reed, circa January 13, 1901

 Item — Box 24: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 16
Identifier: uva-lib:2224669
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: circa January 13, 1901
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Walter Reed to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  January 18, 1901

 Item — Box 24: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 24
Identifier: 02424001
Scope and Contents

Reed discusses the army reorganization bill. He has finished his paper and remarks that the last experimental yellow fever cases are recovering.

Dates:  January 18, 1901
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Walter Reed to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  January 21, 1901

 Item — Box 24: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 25
Identifier: 02425001
Scope and Contents

Reed teases Emilie Lawrence Reed. She complains about the appearance of their house in Washington.

Dates:  January 21, 1901
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Walter Reed to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  January 27, 1901

 Item — Box 24: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 30
Identifier: 02430001
Scope and Contents

Reed teases Emilie Lawrence Reed. His colleague McConnell will be visiting her. Reed mentions a drawing of mosquitos.

Dates:  January 27, 1901
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Walter Reed to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  February 3, 1901

 Item — Box 24: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 32
Identifier: 02432001
Scope and Contents

Reed teases Emilie Lawrence Reed. He will be leaving for Cuba in a week. Lawrence Reed's battalion has been ordered to move, either to the United States or to the Philippines, and he mentions that Lawrence has a Cuban girlfriend.

Dates:  February 3, 1901
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Walter Reed to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  July 27, 1900

 Item — Box 20: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 69
Identifier: 02069001
Scope and Contents

Reed teases Emilie Lawrence Reed. He expects to see her August.

Dates:  July 27, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Walter Reed to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  July 27, 1900

 Item — Box 20: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 70
Identifier: 02070001
Scope and Contents

Reed describes the weather in Cuba. He teases Emilie Lawrence Reed, and anticipates his arrival home.

Dates:  July 27, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Walter Reed to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  July 29, 1900

 Item — Box 20: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 71
Identifier: 02071001
Scope and Contents

Reed relates his plans for Keewaydin concerning the garden, a summer house, and a new house. He has seen their son, Lawrence, and reports that he is well, but he as yet has no commission.

Dates:  July 29, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Walter Reed to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  July 30, 1900

 Item — Box 20: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 72
Identifier: 02072001
Scope and Contents

Reed's baggage has to be disinfected for “Yellow Jack” before he leaves for the States. He believes this to be an absurd formality. Reed wants to install a shower at the renovated Keewaydin house.

Dates:  July 30, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Walter Reed to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  August 2, 1900

 Item — Box 20: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 77
Identifier: 02077001
Scope and Contents

Reed writes that he is on his way home to the United States.

Dates:  August 2, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Walter Reed to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  September 30, 1900

 Item — Box 21: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 28
Identifier: 02128001
Scope and Contents

Reed describes his voyage to Havana, during which he gives medical care to a child. Emilie Lawrence Reed would not accompany Reed to Cuba, and did not want him to go.

Dates:  September 30, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed