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letters (correspondence)

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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 Charles A. O'Connor to Philip Showalter Hench, January 4, 1958

 Item — Box 49: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 20
Identifier: uva-lib:2229127
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: January 4, 1958
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Charles B. Byrne to the Surgeon General,  July 31, 1875

 Item — Box 16: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 74
Identifier: 01674021
Scope and Contents

Byrne informs the Surgeon General that Reed will be assigned to Willets Point for instruction in the duties of a medical officer. Following instruction, a report is to be sent to the Military Division of the Atlantic. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

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 Charles C. Lamborn to Henry Rose Carter,  April 2, 1924

 Item — Box 11: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 43
Identifier: 01143001
Scope and Contents

Lamborn sends Carter a notice of his payment of membership dues to the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, London.

Dates:  April 2, 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

Letter from Charles [Caverico] to Howard A. Kelly,  May 23, 1910

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 76
Identifier: 02976001
Scope and Contents

[Caverico] compliments Kelly on his book,Walter Reed and Yellow Fever.

Dates:  May 23, 1910
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Charles E. Fitzgerald to William A. Tansey,  April 25, 1929

 Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 75
Identifier: 03175005
Scope and Contents

Fitzgerald discusses activities on behalf of Emilie Lawrence Reed and the pension bill.

Dates:  April 25, 1929
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Correspondence of William A. Tansey

Letter from Charles E. Magoon to J.W. Amesse,  June 30, 1908

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 43
Identifier: 02943001
Scope and Contents

Magoon urges Amesse to support an end to the quarantine of Cuba, arguing that there is no danger to the United States.

Dates:  June 30, 1908
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Charles E. Magoon to William Crawford Gorgas,  June 1, 1905

 Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 12
Identifier: 02812001
Scope and Contents

Magoon writes about yellow fever cases in the Canal Zone. He makes an official offer of full financial and manpower support for Gorgas to eradicate the disease.

Dates:  June 1, 1905
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from [Charles] E. Otis to Howard A. Kelly,  July 10, 1907

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 31
Identifier: 02931030
Scope and Contents

Otis sends a contribution for Kissinger.

Dates:  July 10, 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 Charles Gardner to Blossom [Emilie M.] Reed, April 14, 1961

 Item — Box 66: Series uva-lib:2230196, Folder: 45
Identifier: uva-lib:2230237
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series VIII. Miscellany consists of oversize and miscellaneous materials in the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed yellow fever collection that were, for various reasons, not included in any of the other series in the collection. Items in this series date from around 1849 to 1982 with the bulk of the materials dating from 1885 to 1974. These materials include, but are not limited to the following: informed...
Dates: April 14, 1961
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series VIII. Miscellany

Letter from Charles H. Coles to Philip Showalter Hench,  January 22, 1942

 Item — Box 39: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 6
Identifier: 03906075
Scope and Contents

Coles has mailed Hench photographs. He encloses annotated references to publications on yellow fever.

Dates:  January 22, 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 Charles H. Coles to Philip Showalter Hench,  February 9, 1942

 Item — Box 39: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 8
Identifier: 03908025
Scope and Contents

Coles informs Hench that he can find no information on the painting of Camp Lazear.

Dates:  February 9, 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 Charles H. Coles to Philip Showalter Hench,  March 25, 1942

 Item — Box 39: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 9
Identifier: 03909033
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 25, 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 Charles H. Royce to Atcheson Laughlin Hench, September 26, 1965

 Item — Box 142: Series uva-lib:2231610, Folder: 87
Identifier: uva-lib:2231796
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: September 26, 1965
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series XIV. P. Kahler Hench additions

Letter from Charles Inman and Elizabeth Fitzpatrick to James E. Watson,  November 22, 1926

 Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 7
Identifier: 03107003
Scope and Contents

Representatives of the New York Association of Biology Teachers petition Sen. Watson to seek Congressional action on pensions for Kissinger and widows of Yellow Fever Commission participants.

Dates:  November 22, 1926
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Letter from James E. Peabody to Howard A. Kelly with related materials

Letter from Charles Kirby to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  May 31, 1927

 Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 22
Identifier: 03122032
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 Charles L. Lhotka to Philip Showalter Hench,  February 4, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 3
Identifier: 03803008
Scope and Contents

Lhotka explains the procedure for an inter-library loan. He lists all documents containing information on the work of the Yellow Fever Commission.

Dates:  February 4, 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 Charles M. Gandy to Simon Flexner,  October 15, 1913

 Item — Box 30: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 17
Identifier: 03017005
Scope and Contents

Gandy discusses the various photographs of Walter Reed that are suitable for hanging at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  October 15, 1913
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Records of the Surgeon General's Office relating to the military career of Walter Reed

Letter from Charles M. Gandy to Simon Flexner,  October 17, 1913

 Item — Box 30: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 17
Identifier: 03017008
Scope and Contents

Gandy informs Flexner that a negative of one of Reed's photographs is broken. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  October 17, 1913
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Records of the Surgeon General's Office relating to the military career of Walter Reed

Letter from C[harles] R. G[reenleaf] to Walter Reed,  July 1, 1887

 Item — Box 17: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 84
Identifier: 01784003
Scope and Contents

The original draft of Greenleaf's letter informs Reed that the treating of several pension cases each month does not warrant his being excused from performing that duty.

Dates:  July 1, 1887
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 Charles S. Marsh to Philip Showalter Hench,  July 15, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 22
Identifier: 03822009
Scope and Contents

Marsh is sending Hench Camp Columbia maps.

Dates:  July 15, 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