letters (correspondence)
Subject
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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:
Howard W. Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 8731
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the files and working papers of Howard Worth Smith who represented Virginia in Congress for some thirty-five years as representative from the Eighth Congressional District. Included are correspondence received and carbon copies of replies, clippings, printed government and other publications, copies of printed bills, reports, press releases, speeches, notes, memoranda, financial records, tape and disc...
Dates:
1933 - 1966
Somerville family papers
Box
Identifier: MSS 16201
Scope and Contents
The Somerville family papers (1821-2013) consists of correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and extensive genealogical files. The papers and research detailing the history of the Somerville family, mainly in America, range from its colonial background to contemporary times. The extensive genealogical research is comprised of notes and charts, along with correspondence, photographs, military records, personal notes, clippings, and printed materials. The collection also includes...
Dates:
1821 - 2013
Special Order No. 357 from C.W. Barber for John J. Moran, December 24, 1918
Item — Box 30: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 46
Identifier: 03046015
Scope and Contents
Moran is ordered to Mars-sur-Allier, France for duty as a hospital disbursing officer.
Dates:
December 24, 1918
Statement from the Cuban Minister of Health relating to Philip Showalter Hench, circa 1940-1960
Item — Box 147: Series uva-lib:2231610, Folder: 67
Identifier: uva-lib:2232235
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:
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Dates:
circa 1940-1960
Elizabeth Stoddard letters to Ella Farman
Collection — Box BW 49, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 8266
Content Description
Three autograph letters of Elizabeth Stoddard signed, to Ella Farman, author and editor of Wide Awake discussing the literary periodical press, payments to authors, and other matters. Written legibly in ink on three folded sheets of "E.D.B.S." (Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard) embossed stationary. This collection is an addition to Elizabeth Stoddard letters in the Barrett Collection (MSS 8266, 8266-a).
Dates:
circa 1875
Stowe grocery store ledgers
File — Box 1: [Barcode: X032652607]
Identifier: MSS 16433
Scope and Contents Note
The Stowe grocery store ledgers (1870-1934; 0.4 cubic feet) document the operation of the titular family's grocery store in Petersburg, Virginia. Ledgers document monthly expenses for items ranging from rent to flour to labor. The collection also contains a small file of personal letters and bills for appliances.
Dates:
1870 - 1934
Suggested letter from Royal S. Webster to Philip Showalter Hench, 1941
Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 5
Identifier: 03805002
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
Bennett Taylor papers--addition
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 9221
Content Description
MSS 9221 Bennett Taylor papers consist of family correspondence with letters to and from Bennett about education at the University of Virginia, descriptions of United States Civil War battles including the 19th Virginia Regiment Company F, Picketts Divison at 2nd Manassas, a prisoner exchange for Lieutenant Colonel Bennett Taylor from Johnson Island in Lake Erie New York, and family news of descendants of Thomas Jefferson and local Charlottesville families from 1851-1894. Correspondence of...
Dates:
1851 - 1894
Taylor family papers
Series
Identifier: MSS-16857
Content Description
This collection contains personal letters, postcards, U.Va. grade reports, certificates, a Monticello Association Lifetime Pass, various Army documents, and pamphlets on the life and interests of Thomas Jefferson documenting the lives of the Taylor Family: Edward Colston Taylor (1877-1940), Jessie Alwine Taylor (1879-1973 ), and Edward Colston Taylor, Jr. (1911-1997). The collection includes genealogical notes and research on the Taylor Family, undertaken by Peter Flugg Mayron, an Austin,...
Dates:
1894-1983
Eleanor Ross Taylor letters to Paul Collinge
Collection — Box BW 47, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16687
Content Description
Letters and notes from Eleanor Ross Taylor to Paul Collinge and Mary Lyons (Heartwood Books). Also includes one program from Taylor's funeral and one from her husbands funeral (St Paul's Church, Charlottesville, Virginia) collected by Paul Collinge.
Dates:
1999-2012
Telegram from Edgar Mayer to Philip Showalter Hench, January 25, 1943
Item — Box 40: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 18
Identifier: 04018002
Scope and Contents
Mayer reports that there is a possibility Hench will be asked to join the Board of the Finlay Institute.
Dates:
January 25, 1943
Telegram from [Philip Showalter Hench] to John J. Moran, October 17, 1940
Item — Box 36: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 23
Identifier: 03623015
Scope and Contents
[Hench] requests that Moran mail the photostats.
Dates:
October 17, 1940
Text of letter from Enrique Saladrigas, Domingo F. Ramos, Mario Le-Roy, and Antonio Diaz Albertini to Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, May 18, 1948
Item — Box 145: Series uva-lib:2231610, Folder: 113
Identifier: uva-lib:2232049
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 18, 1948
Text of letter from Enrique Saladrigas, Domingo F. Ramos, Mario Le-Roy, and Antonio Diaz Albertini to Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, May 18, 1948
Item — Box 145: Series uva-lib:2231610, Folder: 114
Identifier: uva-lib:2232050
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 18, 1948
Text of speech Jefferson Randolph Kean gave upon the receipt of the Gorgas Medal, December 15, 1942
Item — Box 63: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 9
Identifier: 06309001
Scope and Contents
Kean discusses the “warfare” against the mosquito.
Dates:
December 15, 1942
[Text of speech?] to the members of the Yellow Fever Committees, circa 1933
Item — Box 33: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 4
Identifier: 03304005
Scope and Contents
Peabody discusses yellow fever work dating back to 1897, with particular emphasis on the work done in Cuba, in 1900 and 1901, by Reed and the Yellow Fever Commission.
Dates:
circa 1933
The Etiology of Yellow Fever--a Preliminary Note
,The Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Public Health Association, October 23, 1900
Item — Box 21: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 54
Identifier: 02154001
Scope and Contents
Reed presents this report on yellow fever to the American Public Health Association.
Dates:
October 23, 1900
The Etiology of Yellow Fever - A Preliminary Note
,The Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, October 1900
Item — Box 138: Series uva-lib:2231435, Folder: 39
Identifier: uva-lib:2231518
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Series XII. Houston Academy of Medicine/Texas Medical Center additions consists of materials that Philip Showalter Hench created or collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1901 to around 1966. These materials were originally a part of the Philip S. Hench papers in the John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center at the Texas Medical Center Library, but they were transferred to the University of Virginia in 1991. These...
Dates:
October 1900
The Republic Remembers
,Medical Progress, by James E. Peabody, March 1928
Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 49
Identifier: 03149001
Scope and Contents
Peabody gives a brief history of the Yellow Fever Commission and discusses the pensions to be granted to the yellow fever volunteers after the passing of the Copeland-Wainwright Bill.
Dates:
March 1928