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letters (correspondence)

 Subject

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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 6939 Collections and/or Records:

Note from Henry Rose Carter [to J.H.L. Cumpston],  circa June 16, 1923

 Item — Box 11: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 4
Identifier: 01104002
Scope and Contents

Carter's introductory note is to be inserted at the beginning of his article “The Chance of the Extension of Yellow Fever to Asia and Australia.”

Dates:  circa June 16, 1923
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Letter from Henry Rose Carter to J.H.L. Cumpston with article

Note from Howard A. Kelly to Cullen,  circa 1905

 Item — Box 27: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 58
Identifier: 02758001
Scope and Contents

Kelly asks Cullen to assist Sears.

Dates:  circa 1905
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Note from M[ayme] O[ber] P[eak] to Laura [Armistead Carter],  circa 1920-1925

 Item — Box 13: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 28
Identifier: 01328001
Scope and Contents

Peake sends Laura Carter a copy of a story she has written on the work of Henry Rose Carter and William Gorgas in ridding Panama of yellow fever.

Dates:  circa 1920-1925
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Pioneering in Panama, by Mayme Ober Peak

Note from Walter Reed to Emilie B. Lawrence, circa 1875

 Item — Box 16: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 76
Identifier: 01676004
Scope and Contents

Reed requests that Lawrence stay at home so he can visit her in the evening.

Dates: circa 1875
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Cards from Walter Reed requesting to call on Emilie B. Lawrence

Noted Doctors at the Hopkins,Baltimore American, October 6, 1904

 Item — Box 27: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 30
Identifier: N2730001
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: October 6, 1904
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Notes by Jefferson Randolph Kean,  October 20, 1925

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 69
Identifier: 06269050
Scope and Contents

Kean makes corrections to Sullivan's manuscript for a book chapter on Gorgas, including a memorandum for Ireland concerning Gorgas' military record and honors.

Dates:  October 20, 1925
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Jefferson Randolph Kean

Notes from Augusta C. McPherson,  circa 1957

 Item — Box 60: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 7
Identifier: 06007001
Scope and Contents

McPherson describes two photographs; one shows Dorsey McPherson and Cruse in New Mexico, while the other shows them years later in Washington, D.C. They are the two surviving officers of Fort Apache.

Dates:  circa 1957
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VI. Alphabetical files / Materials relating to Dorsey McPherson

Notes on Dinner for John J. Moran,  October 23, 1940

 Item — Box 36: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 30
Identifier: 03630001
Scope and Contents

Atcheson Hench describes the setting, guests, conversations, and presentations at a dinner given in honor of Moran at which Kean described the yellow fever experiments and Moran answered questions from the guests.

Dates:  October 23, 1940
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench

Notes on John R. Kissinger,  June 2, 1938

 Item — Box 59: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 11
Identifier: 05911016
Scope and Contents

Kissinger responds to questions regarding the yellow fever experiments. He asserts that he volunteered before Moran.

Dates:  June 2, 1938
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VI. Alphabetical files / Experiences with the Yellow Fever Commission in Cuba 1900, by John R. Kissinger with related notes from Kissinger

Notice from the United States Government Printing Office to Philip Showalter Hench, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 1
Identifier: 03801031
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: 1941
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

Notice of examination for entrance into the Regular Corps of the U. S. Public Health Service from Hugh S. Cumming,  March 9, 1925

 Item — Box 12: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 22
Identifier: 01222004
Scope and Contents

Cumming serves notice about the entrance exam for the U.S. Public Health Service.

Dates:  March 9, 1925
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

Notice of the Annual Meeting of Members of the Walter Reed Memorial Association,  November 30, 1950

 Item — Box 43: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 47
Identifier: 04347005
Scope and Contents

Siler informs members of the Association about the date of the annual meeting.

Dates:  November 30, 1950
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Minutes of the annual meeting of the board of managers of the Walter Reed Memorial Association

Notice of the annual meeting of the members of the Walter Reed Memorial Association,  November 1, 1951

 Item — Box 43: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 83
Identifier: 04383001
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:  November 1, 1951
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

Donald Nuechterlein Additional Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 10798
Content Description This collection of papers originated from the career and personal life of Donald Nuechterlein (1925-2022), who was originally from Saginaw, Michigan, served in World War II and became an American diplomat and a professor of International Relations. He was a University of Virginia adjunct professor, and international foreign relations analyst from the 1960’s to the 1990’s. He lived in Charlottesville and wrote a regular political opinion column in the local paper, The Daily Progress. He...
Dates: 1969-2019
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Nunnally Johnson collection of Nathalia Crane papers

 Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: ViU-2016-0070
Dates: 1923-1925
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Official Request from Jefferson Randolph Kean to F.H. Beach,  February 18, 1902

 Item — Box 26: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 5
Identifier: 02605002
Scope and Contents

Kean requests a copy of the orders forbidding private use of government vehicles.

Dates:  February 18, 1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to F.H. Beach with related military orders

William Oxley letter

 Collection — Box BW 20, Folder: 1 [X032652611]
Identifier: MSS 16445
Scope and Contents Note

The William Oxley letter (1828; 0.03 cubic feet) was sent to William Thomas Shepherd, Petersburg, Virginia. The letter discusses issues with the tobacco industry.

Dates: 1828-07-01
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Page-Nelson Society of Virginia historic documents

 Item
Identifier: MSS 16454
Scope and Contents Note Page-Nelson Society of Virginia Historic documents (1790-1805, 0.21 cubic feet) contain an autograph letter signed from John Page (1744-1808) to "Dear Sir," noting that he will be absent from Congress during January 1791 (dated 6 December, 1790); a printed commission on parchment, completed in manuscript, appointing John Preston as Major in the Third Division of the Virginia Militia, signed by Governor John Page (1744-1808), dated 24 December 1802; a printed land grant on parchment...
Dates: 1790 - 1805
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Papers of E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-86-5
Abstract

This small and very important collection consists of correspondence and working papers from McReynolds’ clerkship for Justices Robert H. Jackson, Felix Frankfurter and John M. Harlan, 1953-1955. Of significance are the files on Brown v. Board of Education and the notes between the justices; also drafts opinions, memoranda, correspondence and notes of other cases.

Dates: 1944 (1953-1955)-1982
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Papers of Ronald P. Sokol, 1959-2014

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2014-01
Abstract

Collection (1967-2014) of correspondence between Mr. Sokol, Hardy C. Dillard and Daniel J. Meador and of Mr. Sokol's student notes.

Dates: 1959 - 2014
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections