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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 to Hideyo Noguchi, December 31, 1921

 Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 17
Identifier: 00917028
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series II. Henry Rose Carter consists of materials relating to Henry Rose Carter that Philip Showalter Hench collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1880 to 1932 with the bulk of the materials dating from 1883 to 1932. The series is particularly rich in materials that document Henry Rose Carter's professional activities in the last eleven years of his life (1914-1925). These materials include, but are not limited to the...
Dates: December 31, 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 to Howard A. Kelly,  circa 1907

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 29
Identifier: 02929003
Scope and Contents

The writer offers a political explanation for Ross's actions.

Dates:  circa 1907
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Correspondence relating to James Carroll's charge that John Ross and Juan Guiteras prevented him from obtaining blood necessary for yellow fever tests at Las Animas Hospital

Letter to Howard A. Kelly,  July 7, 1907

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 31
Identifier: 02931027
Scope and Contents

The writer sends a contribution for Kissinger.

Dates:  July 7, 1907
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Correspondence relating to contributions for the support of John R. Kissinger

Letter to Howard A. Kelly,  December 23, 1907

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 31
Identifier: 02931045
Scope and Contents

The writer sends a contribution for Kissinger.

Dates:  December 23, 1907
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Correspondence relating to contributions for the support of John R. Kissinger

Letter to Howard Atwood Kelly,  October 24, 1906

 Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 49
Identifier: 02849002
Scope and Contents

Kelly's father writes that he is glad he has returned home.

Dates:  October 24, 1906
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Correspondence of Howard Atwood Kelly

Letter to Jack [s.n.],  September 28, 1927

 Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 35
Identifier: 03135001
Scope and Contents

The writer discusses an entry, in the National Cyclopedia of American Biography, on his unidentified father.

Dates:  September 28, 1927
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Letter to Jack [s.n.] with a business card

Letter to Jack [s.n.] with a business card,  September 1927

 File — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 35
Identifier: uva-lib:2225625
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:  September 1927
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter to Laura Carter,  September 30, 1925

 Item — Box 12: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 28
Identifier: 01228042
Scope and Contents

The writer expresses condolences on the death of Henry Carter.

Dates:  September 30, 1925
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Correspondence of Laura Armistead Carter

Letter to L.D. Fricks, October 25, 1921

 Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 16
Identifier: 00916012
Scope and Contents

The writer informs Fricks that Carter is not willing to accept financial aid to attend a meeting.

Dates: October 25, 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 to M.A. Barber,  February 23, 1923

 Item — Box 10: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 21
Identifier: 01021060
Scope and Contents

The writer describes experiments involving the winter breeding of mosquitoes.

Dates:  February 23, 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 to Mary and Philip Showalter Hench from one of their children,  October 26, 1940

 Item — Box 36: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 34
Identifier: 03634043
Scope and Contents

[One of Hench's children] sends love to his/her parents.

Dates:  October 26, 1940
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous correspondence received by Philip Showalter Hench

Letter to Mrs. John J. Moran from Harry Clemons, October 3, 1951

 Item — Box 154: Series uva-lib:2230196, Folder: 44
Identifier: uva-lib:2230413
Scope and Contents

Clemons informs Mrs. Moran that her husband's Medal of Honor arrived safely to the Alderman Library at the University of Virginia.

Dates: October 3, 1951
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series VIII. Miscellany

Letter to Philip Showalter Hench,  circa March 31, 1941

 Item — Box 39: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 1
Identifier: 03901222
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:  circa March 31, 1941
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Correspondence and reports of Philip Showalter Hench and Domingo F. Ramos relating to the location of Camp Lazear

Letter to the Board of Directors, Rockefeller Foundation, circa 1920

 Item — Box 8: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 25
Identifier: 00825001
Scope and Contents

The writer reports the progress of the yellow fever work in South America, Mexico and West Africa and includes data tables.

Dates: circa 1920
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter

Letter to the Directeur General du Bureau Sanitaire International de la Fondation Rockefeller,  June 6, 1923

 Item — Box 11: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 24
Identifier: 01124035
Scope and Contents

The writer thanks the Director for the serum shipments already received and requests more to be sent to him in Africa.

Dates:  June 6, 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 to Wenceslao Pareja, May 18, 1921

 Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 12
Identifier: 00912009
Scope and Contents

The writer discusses the yellow fever situation and the economic ramifications of quarantines. Enclosed is a copy of a telegram to Hanson.

Dates: May 18, 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 to Wickliffe Rose,  July 22, 1922

 Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 34
Identifier: 00934024
Scope and Contents

The writer makes recommendations concerning how the International Health Board should handle inquiries concerning the status of yellow fever in various South American countries.

Dates:  July 22, 1922
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 to Wickliffe Rose,  August 17, 1922

 Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 37
Identifier: 00937005
Scope and Contents

The writer discusses White's paper on yellow fever, and believes it would be useful to local doctors in Mexico.

Dates:  August 17, 1922
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 to William Crawford Gorgas, May 22, 1917

 Item — Box 8: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 11
Identifier: 00811031
Scope and Contents

The writer is interested in continuing yellow fever work, but cannot be of assistance at the moment.

Dates: May 22, 1917
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 William Crawford Gorgas to Howard A. Kelly,  December 24, 1907

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 29
Identifier: 02929011
Scope and Contents

Gorgas writes to Kelly that Ross, not Guiteras, was the director of Las Animas Hospital.

Dates:  December 24, 1907
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Correspondence relating to James Carroll's charge that John Ross and Juan Guiteras prevented him from obtaining blood necessary for yellow fever tests at Las Animas Hospital