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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:

Noland family papers--addition

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2018-0123
Dates: 1801 - 1956
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Noland family papers--addition

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2019-0093
Dates: 1786 - 1895
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Norfolk Poet's Club records

 File
Identifier: MSS 14245
Scope and Contents Note

Norfolk Poet's Club Records (1912-1983; 2 cubic feet) include manuscripts of Josephine Johnson and Margaret Haley Carpenter; and correspondence of Mary Sinton Leitch, Josephine Johnson, Julia Johnson Davis, and William Stanley Braithwaite. There are also press releases, newspaper clippings, printed items, and scrapbooks about these poets and editors and their colleagues as well as their poetry and the creative writing process.

Dates: 1896; 1912-1983
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Note by Jefferson Randolph Kean relating to the letters of William Crawford Gorgas, circa 1917

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 47
Identifier: uva-lib:2229661
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench primarily consists of materials relating to Albert E. Truby and Jefferson Randolph Kean that Philip Showalter Hench created or collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1879 to around 1960 with the bulk of the items dating from 1900 to 1954. These items include, but are not limited to the following: correspondence of...
Dates: circa 1917
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench

Note from Dorma V. Schnurr to [Philip Showalter Hench],  September 27, 1944

 Item — Box 40: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 42
Identifier: 04042002
Scope and Contents

Schnurr informs [Hench] that Moran is unable to identify the persons in the photograph.

Dates:  September 27, 1944
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

Note from Frances B. Seth to Philip Showalter Hench,  March 9, 1948

 Item — Box 42: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 12
Identifier: 04212014
Scope and Contents

Seth thanks Hench for the copy of the address he delivered at the University of Virginia.

Dates:  March 9, 1948
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

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