letters (correspondence)

Letter from William G. Harrison to Emilie Lawrence Reed, September 10, 1929

Item — Box 32: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 9

Identifier: 03209001

Scope and Contents

Harrison thanks Emilie Lawrence Reed for the gift of a Bible.

Dates: September 10, 1929

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

Letter from William G. Harrison to Emilie Lawrence Reed, August 10, 1929

Item — Box 32: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 4

Identifier: 03204001

Scope and Contents

Harrison seeks artifacts of Walter Reed for the Vanderbilt University Medical Department.

Dates: August 10, 1929

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Letters from William G. Harrison to Emilie Lawrence Reed

Letter from William G. Harrison to Emilie Lawrence Reed, circa 1929

Item — Box 32: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 4

Identifier: 03204002

Scope and Contents

Harrison thanks Emilie Lawrence Reed for donating her husband's letter. He inquires if she has anything else she would like to contribute to the Vanderbilt University Medical School Museum.

Dates: circa 1929

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Letters from William G. Harrison to Emilie Lawrence Reed

Letter from William G. Kirkland to Philip Showalter Hench, December 27, 1947

Item — Box 41: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 43

Identifier: 04143020

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 27, 1947

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 William Gorgas Crawford to Jefferson Randolph Kean, September 14, 1917

Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 46

Identifier: 06246003

Scope and Contents

Gorgas discusses the manning of ambulance sections in France.

Dates: September 14, 1917

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of William Crawford Gorgas and Jefferson Randolph Kean

Letter from William Grace Harrison to Mabel H. Lazear, August 10, 1929

Item — Box 4: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 63

Identifier: uva-lib:2222391

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series I. Jesse W. Lazear consists of materials relating to Lazear that Philip Showalter Hench collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1800 to 1956 with the bulk of the items dating from 1863 to 1943. Much of the series consists of the correspondence of Jesse W. Lazear and his wife Mabel H. Lazear. Jesse's correspondence dates from his time as a student at Johns Hopkins University to his death in 1900. Researchers can learn a great deal...

Dates: August 10, 1929

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series I. Jesse W. Lazear

Letter from William H. Taft to Carlos J. Finlay, October 4, 1906

Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 45

Identifier: 02845001

Scope and Contents

Taft writes that Kean has been detailed to assist Finlay in stamping out yellow fever in Cuba.

Dates: October 4, 1906

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

Letter from William H. Welch to George Miller Sternberg, January 12, 1900

Item — Box 20: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 2

Identifier: 02002001

Scope and Contents

Welch gives a recommendation for Jesse W. Lazear. Included is a handwritten note by Truby.

Dates: January 12, 1900

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

Letter from William H. Welch to Howard A. Kelly, circa November 1, 1922

Item — Box 30: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 63

Identifier: 03063016

Scope and Contents

Welch writes about the mosquito theory of yellow fever transmission and the Yellow Fever Commission.

Dates: circa November 1, 1922

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Miscellaneous correspondence of Howard A. Kelly with related materials

Letter from William H. Welch to Mabel H. Lazear, April 4, 1908

Item — Box 4: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 39

Identifier: 00439001

Scope and Contents

Welch sends Mabel Lazear a check from Phipps. Welch hopes that the pension increase will pass the House.

Dates: April 4, 1908

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series I. Jesse W. Lazear

Letter from William H. Wilbur to Frances B. Seth, January 18, 1947

Item — Box 145: Series uva-lib:2231610, Folder: 2

Identifier: uva-lib:2231938

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 18, 1947

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

Letter from William H. Wranek, Jr. to Philip Showalter Hench, October 28, 1947

Item — Box 41: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 36

Identifier: 04136009

Scope and Contents

Wranek requests an advance copy of Hench's speech on Walter Reed to use for publicity purposes. He is interested in the Reed materials that Hench will be bringing to the University of Virginia in connection with the speech.

Dates: October 28, 1947

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 William H. Wranek, Jr. to Philip Showalter Hench, November 6, 1947

Item — Box 41: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 39

Identifier: 04139009

Scope and Contents

Wranek hopes that Hench will send him an advance copy of his University of Virginia lecture on Reed. He feels that it will be newsworthy to a Latin American audience.

Dates: November 6, 1947

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 William Houston Lazear and Mabel H. Lazear to Charlotte C. Sweitzer, circa March 24, 1908

Item — Box 4: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 37

Identifier: 00437001

Scope and Contents

William Lazear writes about buying skates, and Mabel Lazear informs Sweitzer that she is awaiting news on a possible increase in her pension.

Dates: circa March 24, 1908

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series I. Jesse W. Lazear

Letter from William Houston Lazear and Mrs. William Houston Lazear to Philip Showalter Hench, May 10, 1948

Item — Box 145: Series uva-lib:2231610, Folder: 103

Identifier: uva-lib:2232039

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: May 10, 1948