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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 Bonnie Truby to Philip Showalter Hench and Mary Hench,  March 26, 1954

 Item — Box 47: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 7
Identifier: 04707019
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:  March 26, 1954
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 Boykin Wright and Boykin Wright, Jr., to Henry Rose Carter, October 25, 1915

 Item — Box 7: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 64
Identifier: 00764081
Scope and Contents

The Wrights are returning Carter's report on impounded waters.

Dates: October 25, 1915
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 B.R. Newton to Henry Rose Carter, December 9, 1915

 Item — Box 7: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 64
Identifier: 00764094
Scope and Contents

Newton approves the employment of assistants for malaria field work.

Dates: December 9, 1915
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 Bradford Fleming to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  June 1, 1927

 Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 22
Identifier: 03122028
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:  June 1, 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 Bruce Mayne to Henry Rose Carter, September 13, 1919

 Item — Box 8: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 18
Identifier: 00818104
Scope and Contents

Mayne discusses hyper-parasitism and mosquito experimentation.

Dates: September 13, 1919
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 Bruce Mayne to Henry Rose Carter, January 18, 1922

 Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 25
Identifier: 00925031
Scope and Contents

Mayne thanks Carter for his contributions to engineering abstracts and inquires about his sources.

Dates: January 18, 1922
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 Burton J. Hendrick to Jefferson Randolph Kean,  April 14, 1924

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 56
Identifier: 06256001
Scope and Contents

Burton informs Kean that the piece published in World's Work, by Marie Gorgas, was an excerpt of her larger work in which Reed does receive credit.

Dates:  April 14, 1924
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench

Letter from Burton J. Hendrick to Jefferson Randolph Kean,  April 16, 1924

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 58
Identifier: 06258001
Scope and Contents

Hendrick agrees to publish Kean's letter, which challenged Marie Gorgas' account of her husband's yellow fever work, in the journal World's Work.

Dates:  April 16, 1924
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench

Letter from Burton J. Hendrick to Jefferson Randolph Kean,  May 5, 1924

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 63
Identifier: 06263001
Scope and Contents

Hendrick informs Kean that he had planned to publish his rebuttal letter in the June issue of the World's Work, but withdrew it when he saw it published in the New York Times.

Dates:  May 5, 1924
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench

Letter from C. H. Crane to Charles B. Byrne,  July 31, 1875

 Item — Box 16: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 74
Identifier: 01674023
Scope and Contents

The Surgeon General has assigned Walter Reed to Willet's Point, New York Harbor for instructions in the duties of a Medical Officer.

Dates:  July 31, 1875
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Certification of Walter Reed's passing of army examinations and his appointment as assistant surgeon

Letter from C. H. Crane to Walter Reed,  May 26, 1880

 Item — Box 17: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 76
Identifier: 01776001
Scope and Contents

Crane informs Reed the Surgeon General will approve his request for a leave of absence.

Dates:  May 26, 1880
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Military records relating to Walter Reed

Letter from Calvin DeWitt to the Medical Officers in the Military, Naval, and Public Health and M.H. Services,  circa 1905

 Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 31
Identifier: 02831001
Scope and Contents

DeWitt solicits contributions to the Walter Reed Memorial Association.

Dates:  circa 1905
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Letters from the Walter Reed Memorial Association regarding the construction of a Walter Reed memorial

Letter from Calvin H. Goddard to Laura Armistead Carter,  September 18, 1925

 Item — Box 12: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 28
Identifier: 01228030
Scope and Contents

Goddard expresses sympathy upon the death of Henry Carter.

Dates:  September 18, 1925
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 Camilo Chavez to Philip Showalter Hench, May 5, 1948

 Item — Box 145: Series uva-lib:2231610, Folder: 83
Identifier: uva-lib:2232019
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 5, 1948
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series XIV. P. Kahler Hench additions

Letter from Camilo Chavez to Philip Showalter Hench, May 5, 1948

 Item — Box 145: Series uva-lib:2231610, Folder: 84
Identifier: uva-lib:2232020
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 5, 1948
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series XIV. P. Kahler Hench additions

Letter from Camilo Chavez to Philip Showalter Hench [English translation], May 5, 1948

 Item — Box 145: Series uva-lib:2231610, Folder: 85
Identifier: uva-lib:2232021
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 5, 1948
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series XIV. P. Kahler Hench additions

Letter from Carl A. Grote to Henry Rose Carter, November 13, 1915

 Item — Box 7: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 64
Identifier: 00764087
Scope and Contents

Grote requests suggestions for a malaria eradication campaign. He notes that his county does not have the resources to purchase quinine.

Dates: November 13, 1915
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 Carlos Coello to [Hugh S. Cumming],  January 18, 1923

 Item — Box 10: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 18
Identifier: 01018015
Scope and Contents

Coello reports on cases of hemorrhagic jaundice in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Dates:  January 18, 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 Carlos E. Finlay to George A. Kellogg,  August 6, 1941

 Item — Box 59: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 6
Identifier: 05906151
Scope and Contents

Carlos E. Finlay expresses his dissatisfaction with Cornwell's painting, "Conquerors of Yellow Fever."

Dates:  August 6, 1941
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VI. Alphabetical files / Materials relating to George A. Kellogg

Letter from Carlos E. Finlay to George A. Kellogg,  August 21, 1941

 Item — Box 59: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 6
Identifier: 05906176
Scope and Contents

Carlos E. Finlay apologizes for his earlier criticism of the Cornwell painting. He is glad that the contributions of his father, Carlos J. Finlay, and the Yellow Fever Board are being brought together.

Dates:  August 21, 1941
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VI. Alphabetical files / Materials relating to George A. Kellogg