letters (correspondence)
Found in 6939 Collections and/or Records:
Letter from Albert E. Truby to Philip Showalter Hench, September 12, 1940
Truby requests that Hench keep the information he provided on Agramonte confidential.
Letter from Albert E. Truby to Philip Showalter Hench, October 3, 1940
Truby will send Hench his manuscript and asks for Cooke's address so he may send him a copy. He comments on and sketches the Camp [Columbia?] model, noting inaccuracies.
Letter from Albert E. Truby to Philip Showalter Hench, October 10, 1940
Truby offers observations on Lazear, Moran, and Kissinger.
Letter from Albert E. Truby to Philip Showalter Hench, October 24, 1940
Truby comments on the validity of Agramonte's statements regarding Lazear's work.
Letter from Albert E. Truby to Philip Showalter Hench, December 6, 1940
Truby thanks Hench for the clippings and program from the Lazear memorial event. He would like to have his manuscript returned soon so that he may make revisions. He reveals new information about the buildings of the yellow fever hospital and believes Lazear died in one of them.
Letter from Albert E. Truby to Philip Showalter Hench, December 23, 1940
Truby hopes to have Hench's comments on his manuscript by January 15, 1941. He would like to hear about the Washington and Jefferson College memorial events.
Letter from Albert E. Truby to Philip Showalter Hench, January 12, 1941
Truby suggests several corrections for Hench's article. He maintains that Kissinger volunteered before Moran and mentions his plans to work on his own paper. He invites Hench to visit him.
Letter from Albert E. Truby to Philip Showalter Hench, January 16, 1941
Truby informs Hench that he will send photographs under a separate cover. He appreciated Hench's comments on his manuscript, but he doesn't agree with all of his views about what happened in Cuba.
Letter from Albert E. Truby to Philip Showalter Hench, January 27, 1941
Truby provides detailed replies to the questions Hench posed about Truby's manuscript on the yellow fever experiments. He doubts the accuracy of Agramonte's accounts of the experiments.
Letter from Albert E. Truby to Philip Showalter Hench, circa March 10, 1941
Truby acknowledges his error in saying “northwest” instead of “southwest” in regard to the location of the yellow fever grounds.
Letter from Albert E. Truby to Philip Showalter Hench, March 21, 1941
Truby confirms that Agramonte did not visit Lazear when he was sick nor did he attend the funeral.
Letter from Albert E. Truby to Philip Showalter Hench, circa March 1941
Truby discusses the plan to commission a painting of the Yellow Fever Board, including Finlay. He will ask Andrus and England for verification of locations and hopes his letter to Ramos was sufficient.
Letter from Albert E. Truby to Philip Showalter Hench, April 14, 1941
Truby finds Agramonte's statements greatly exaggerated. He also faults the sketch proposed for the yellow fever painting.
Letter from Albert E. Truby to Philip Showalter Hench, circa August 20, 1941
Truby agrees that Cooke, Ames, and Jernegan should be included in the yellow fever painting.
Letter from Albert E. Truby to Philip Showalter Hench, August 26, 1941
Truby points out historical inaccuracies found in the yellow fever painting.
Letter from Albert E. Truby to Philip Showalter Hench, September 3, 1941
Truby comments on Dean, Ames, Carroll and Agramonte. He feels his memory is sound, though he knows Hench has some skepticism. He offers his recollections of Carroll's infection and his attitude towards the mosquito theory.
Letter from Albert E. Truby to Philip Showalter Hench, September 3, 1941
Truby describes the interior of the living quarters at Camp Lazear and the problems they had with toads entering through the roof.