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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 6940 Collections and/or Records:

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

Letter from Charles S. White to Philip Showalter Hench,  January 10, 1942

 Item — Box 39: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 6
Identifier: 03906044
Scope and Contents

White informs Hench that he knew Reed and Carroll well and was the anesthetist for Reed's last operation. He believes Carroll's mosquito bite was accidental, not experimental. White encloses a manuscript characterizing the two men and describing Reed's operation.

Dates:  January 10, 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 S. White to Philip Showalter Hench,  January 26, 1942

 Item — Box 39: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 6
Identifier: 03906081
Scope and Contents

White sends Hench more information on Reed and informs him that he has found a yellow fever article, from 1911, to which Reed, Kean, and McCaw contributed.

Dates:  January 26, 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 Scribner's Sons to Philip Showalter Hench,  March 25, 1942

 Item — Box 39: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 9
Identifier: 03909032
Scope and Contents

Charles Scribner's Sons informs Hench that the company does not give out authors' addresses, but will forward letters to them.

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 W. Coles to Philip Showalter Hench,  January 30, 1942

 Item — Box 39: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 6
Identifier: 03906094
Scope and Contents

Coles informs Hench that he cannot find information about the Camp Lazear painting.

Dates:  January 30, 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 W. Comstock to George Schobinger,  September 11, 1922

 Item — Box 10: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 21
Identifier: 01021008
Scope and Contents

Comstock describes possible yellow fever cases to Schobinger. All involve foreigners in Brazil. Comstock criticizes the local physicians' attitude and treatment of the cases.

Dates:  September 11, 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 Charles W. Comstock to R.B. Howland,  March 30, 1922

 Item — Box 10: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 21
Identifier: 01021005
Scope and Contents

Comstock describes possible yellow fever cases to Howland. All involve foreigners in Brazil.

Dates:  March 30, 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 Charles W. Kent to Howard A. Kelly,  January 27, 1905

 Item — Box 27: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 45
Identifier: 02745001
Scope and Contents

Kent provides the dates of Walter Reed's attendance at the University of Virginia, as well as other biographical references.

Dates:  January 27, 1905
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Charles Whitebread to Emilie Lawrence Reed, December 15, 1926

 Item — Box 53: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 12
Identifier: uva-lib:2229241
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: December 15, 1926
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Charles Whitebread to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  September 10, 1926

 Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 5
Identifier: 03105001
Scope and Contents

Whitebread requests that Emilie Lawrence Reed donate some of Walter Reed's personal effects for an exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution.

Dates:  September 10, 1926
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Charles Wilson to R. E. Thomason, May 24, 1946

 Item — Box 144: Series uva-lib:2231610, Folder: 42
Identifier: uva-lib:2231915
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 24, 1946
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series XIV. P. Kahler Hench additions

Letter from Chat Hill Willson to the Editors ofOutlook,  July 21, 1907

 Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 93
Identifier: 02893001
Scope and Contents

Wilson sends a contribution for Kissinger.

Dates:  July 21, 1907
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Correspondence related to a letter from Chat Hill Wilson to the editors ofOutlook

Letter from Chauncey B. Baker to Albert E. Truby,  January 17, 1935

 Item — Box 33: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 26
Identifier: 03326001
Scope and Contents

Baker sends Truby a copy of his recollections of yellow fever epidemics in Havana and requests corrections.

Dates:  January 17, 1935
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Chauncey B. Baker to Albert E. Truby,  April 3, 1935

 Item — Box 33: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 31
Identifier: 03331002
Scope and Contents

Baker writes that he is sending Truby a copy of his yellow fever experiences.

Dates:  April 3, 1935
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Correspondence between Chauncey B. Baker and Albert E. Truby

Letter from Chauncey B. Baker to Jefferson Randolph Kean,  April 15, 1935

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 78
Identifier: 06278003
Scope and Contents

Baker sends Kean his recollections of yellow fever work in Havana from 1898 to 1900.

Dates:  April 15, 1935
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Albert E. Truby and Jefferson Randolph Kean

Letter from Chester S. Keefer to Philip Showalter Hench, June 1, 1948

 Item — Box 42: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 24
Identifier: 04224002
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: June 1, 1948
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 Christopher Reed to Jefferson Randolph Kean,  December 23, 1902

 Item — Box 26: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 48
Identifier: 02648001
Scope and Contents

Christopher Reed provides a story of young Walter Reed in Brooklyn, where he was frustrated by malpractice in the medical profession.

Dates:  December 23, 1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Christopher Reed to [Jefferson Randolph Kean?],  May 31, 1903

 Item — Box 26: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 70
Identifier: 02670001
Scope and Contents

Christopher Reed gives his account of Walter Reed's childhood.

Dates:  May 31, 1903
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from [Christopher Reed] to Lila Reed, January 1903

 Item — Box 140: Series uva-lib:2231527, Folder: 26
Identifier: uva-lib:2231584
Scope and Contents

Includes invitation to a memorial meeting of the medical society of the district of Columbia honoring Walter reed.

Dates: January 1903
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series XIII. Reed family additions

Letter from Chuck H. Slocumb to John H. Andrus,  March 16, 1938

 Item — Box 34: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 57
Identifier: 03457002
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 16, 1938
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Correspondence between Philip Showalter Hench, Chuck H. Slocumb, and John H. Andrus