letters (correspondence)
Subject
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:
Ralph Whitacre correspondence
Unprocessed Material
Identifier: ViU-2017-0134
Real Heroism
,The Miami Herald, April 19, 1929
Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 80
Identifier: uva-lib:2225694
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:
April 19, 1929
Records of the Surgeon General's Office relating to the military career of Walter Reed, 1913
File — Box 30: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 17
Identifier: uva-lib:2225377
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:
1913
Records of the Surgeon General's Office relating to the military career of Walter Reed, 1915
File — Box 30: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 25
Identifier: uva-lib:2225393
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:
1915
Reference letter for Gustav E. Lambert, by Roger Post Ames, November 12, 1901
Item — Box 25: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 51
Identifier: uva-lib:2224800
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:
November 12, 1901
Remarks introducing Philip Showalter Hench to the Rotary Club of Havana, January 1952
Item — Box 44: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 15
Identifier: 04415004
Scope and Contents
The speaker mentions Hench's discovery of cortisone, his Nobel Prize, and the Order of Finlay award.
Dates:
January 1952
Report from Walter Reed to the Adjutant General of the U.S. Army, October 31, 1898
Item — Box 18: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 50
Identifier: 01850025
Scope and Contents
Reed's station and duty report states that he was on a Board to investigate causes of the prevalence of typhoid fever and on duty as Curator of the Army Medical Museum during September 1898. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]
Dates:
October 31, 1898
Report of an interview with Merritte W. Ireland, by Jessie Daniel Ames, October 22, 1929
Item — Box 32: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 14
Identifier: 03214001
Scope and Contents
According to Ames, Ireland refuses to include her deceased husband (Roger Post Ames) among the yellow fever heroes. He minimizes Ames' husband role in the yellow fever work, and advises [Jessie Daniel Ames] to give up in her attempt to have him honored.
Dates:
October 22, 1929
Report of Camp Columbia fever epidemic by Najeem M. Saleeby with letters, December 15, 1899
File — Box 19: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 41
Identifier: uva-lib:2224232
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:
December 15, 1899
Report of the Yellow Fever Committee of the New York Association of Biology Teachers, circa 1933
Item — Box 33: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 4
Identifier: 03304018
Scope and Contents
The report describes efforts to pass a Congressional bill honoring the yellow fever volunteers and securing pensions.
Dates:
circa 1933
Report on the Epidemic of Yellow Fever at Grand-Bassam, October 25, 1923
Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 35
Identifier: 00935001
Scope and Contents
This report is a detailed account of the yellow fever epidemic in French West Africa, including information on control measures, vaccinotherapy, serotherapy, and experimental findings.
Dates:
October 25, 1923
Report on the Probable Origin of the Epidemic of Yellow Fever, August 25, 1922
Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 36
Identifier: 00936001
Scope and Contents
This report discusses the probable origin of yellow fever in Africa.
Dates:
August 25, 1922
Report to the Walter Reed Memorial Association--Suggestions, Unfinished Business, Request for Assistance, by Philip Showalter Hench and related materials, November 1954
File — Box 47: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 26
Identifier: uva-lib:2229009
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 1954
Report:Experiences with the Yellow Fever Commission in Cuba 1900, by John R. Kissinger, circa 1930-1950
Item — Box 59: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 11
Identifier: 05911001
Scope and Contents
Kissinger describes the yellow fever experiments and comments on the men involved. He also describes the experience of suffering from yellow fever and the treatment for the disease. Kissinger remarks on inaccuracies in the play "Yellow Jack." He maintains that he volunteered before Moran.
Dates:
circa 1930-1950
Review in theSpringfield RepublicanforDr. Reed and Yellow Fever, July 22, 1906
Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 66
Identifier: N2866008
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:
July 22, 1906
Robert Garlick Hill Kean papers--addition
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: ViU-2019-0059
Armstead L. Robinson papers
File
Identifier: MSS 12836
Scope and Contents
The Armstead L. Robinson papers(1848-2001; 43 cubic feet) consist of audiotapes; book reviews; census material; computer printouts; conference papers; correspondence; biographical information; instructional material; lectures and speeches; manuscripts and original writings by Robinson, his colleagues and students; maps; memorabilia; microfilm; organizational and professional files; photographs; printed items, and research and topical files. Most of the nineteenth century material is in...
Dates:
1848-2001; Majority of material found in 1967-1992
Paul T. Ruxin collection of James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, and their Circle collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16519
Scope and Contents
An autographed signed letter from James Boswell to Andrew Gibb December 5, 1792 about receiving boxes, rent, and giving his son James Boswell money.An autographed signed 4 page letter from James Boswell to Andrew Gibb, (the overseer at his Auchinleck estate) May 31, 1793 discussing road repairs, horse breeding, and lumber sales. London. An autograph signed letter from James Boswell to Thomas Percy April 16, 1773 inviting Percy to dine at his lodgings with Joshua...
Dates:
1769-1793
Scrapbook created by Albert E. Truby that contains photographs, clippings, correspondence, reviews, and telegrams relating to Truby's book,Memoir of Walter Reed: The Yellow Fever Episode, 1942-1953
File — Box 65: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 5
Identifier: uva-lib:2230164
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:
1942-1953
Series I. Jesse W. Lazear, circa 1800-1956, bulk: bulk 1863-1943
Series — Box 1-6: Series uva-lib:2221993
Identifier: uva-lib:2221993
Scope and Contents
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:
circa 1800-1956; Majority of material found within 1863-1943