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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:

Letter from Alexander N. Stark to Guy Charles Moore Godfrey,  July 24, 1900

 Item — Box 20: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 65
Identifier: 02065001
Scope and Contents

Stark reprimands Godfrey for failing to properly handle a yellow fever outbreak at Pinar del Rio.

Dates:  July 24, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Alexander N. Stark to James F. Presnell,  July 24, 1900

 Item — Box 20: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 66
Identifier: 02066001
Scope and Contents

Stark reprimands Presnell for failing to properly handle a yellow fever outbreak at Pinar del Rio.

Dates:  July 24, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Alexander N. Stark to Robert P. Cooke,  July 24, 1900

 Item — Box 20: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 63
Identifier: 02063001
Scope and Contents

Stark reprimands Cooke for his handling of a yellow fever outbreak at Pinar del Rio.

Dates:  July 24, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Alexander N. Stark to Surgeon General, June 16, 1900

 Item — Box 20: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 34
Identifier: uva-lib:2224304
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: June 16, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Alexander N. Stark to the Adjutant General,  June 6, 1900

 Item — Box 20: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 29
Identifier: 02029001
Scope and Contents

Stark requests that no individual affiliated with Columbia Barracks be permitted to enter a saloon where yellow fever broke out. Endorsements are dated June 6 to June 8, 1900.

Dates:  June 6, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Military records relating to U.S. troops in Quemados de Marianao, Cuba

Letter from Alexander N. Stark to the Adjutant General,  June 6, 1900

 Item — Box 20: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 29
Identifier: 02029004
Scope and Contents

Stark requests that no individual affiliated with Columbia Barracks be permitted to enter the town of Quemados de Marianao, Cuba.

Dates:  June 6, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Military records relating to U.S. troops in Quemados de Marianao, Cuba

Letter from Alfons Dampf to Philip Showalter Hench,  February 27, 1942

 Item — Box 39: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 8
Identifier: 03908063
Scope and Contents

Dampf inquires about obtaining a copy of Cornwell's painting to show to his students. He comments on Hench's "Conquerors of Yellow Fever" article.

Dates:  February 27, 1942
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

Letter from Alfred P. Upshur to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  September 26, 1927

 Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 34
Identifier: 03134001
Scope and Contents

Upshur sends Emilie Lawrence Reed photographs of Belroi and Blue Ridge Summit.

Dates:  September 26, 1927
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Alice B. Gould to Howard A. Kelly,  July 30, 1907

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 31
Identifier: 02931042
Scope and Contents

Gould sends a contribution for Kissinger.

Dates:  July 30, 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 from Alice M. Davis to Philip Showalter Hench, November 30, 1944

 Item — Box 40: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 44
Identifier: 04044006
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 30, 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

Letter from Alice Meloan to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  May 31, 1927

 Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 22
Identifier: 03122019
Scope and Contents

This letter, written by a student of Edith R. Force, thanks Emilie Lawrence Reed for the life and work of Walter Reed.

Dates:  May 31, 1927
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Letters from the students of Woodrow Wilson Jr. High School to Emilie Lawrence Reed

Letter from Alicilla M. Murran to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  circa June 15, 1927

 Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 18
Identifier: 03118002
Scope and Contents

Murran and her students thank Emilie Lawrence Reed for Walter Reed's work and sacrifice.

Dates:  circa June 15, 1927
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Letters from a biology class of Johnson High School to Emilie Lawrence Reed

Letter from Allen R. Boyd to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  July 10, 1936

 Item — Box 33: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 48
Identifier: 03348001
Scope and Contents

Boyd responds to Emilie Lawrence Reed's question concerning wood thrushes.

Dates:  July 10, 1936
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Alton P. Tisdel to Philip Showalter Hench,  February 25, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 3
Identifier: 03803029
Scope and Contents

Tisdel provides a list of government publications that are available and those which are out-of-print.

Dates:  February 25, 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

Letter from Alton P. Tisdel to Philip Showalter Hench,  March 24, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 7
Identifier: 03807038
Scope and Contents

Tisdel informs Hench that House Report No. 841, 71st Congress is not available.

Dates:  March 24, 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

Letter from Alton P. Tisdel to Philip Showalter Hench,  August 9, 1937

 Item — Box 34: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 29
Identifier: 03429001
Scope and Contents

Tisdel informs Hench that the Government Printing Office has mailed a copy of the Yellow Fever Commission report to him.

Dates:  August 9, 1937
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Letters from Alton P. Tisdel to Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Alton P. Tisdel to Philip Showalter Hench,  August 17, 1937

 Item — Box 34: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 29
Identifier: 03429002
Scope and Contents

Tisdel acknowledges receipt of payment and informs Hench that supplies of the Yellow Fever Commission report are exhausted.

Dates:  August 17, 1937
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Letters from Alton P. Tisdel to Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Alton S. Pope to Laura Armistead Carter,  August 1, 1927

 Item — Box 13: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 2
Identifier: 01302002
Scope and Contents

Pope thanks Laura Carter for Henry Carter's notes. He is impressed that Carter had theorized a living host as an explanation of the extrinsic incubation of yellow fever before this had been proven.

Dates:  August 1, 1927
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 from Alva Diaz to Henry Rose Carter,  May 1, 1923

 Item — Box 11: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 2
Identifier: 01102001
Scope and Contents

Diaz thanks Carter for a reprint on yellow fever. He requests additional copies - from the Chicago Medical Book Company - of other articles written by Carter.

Dates:  May 1, 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 from A.M. Stimson to H. McG. Robertson,  January 8, 1924

 Item — Box 11: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 38
Identifier: 01138005
Scope and Contents

Stimson sends Robertson a rat flea survey done by Fox.

Dates:  January 8, 1924
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