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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 Estela Agramonte Rodriguez Leon to George A. Kellogg,  September 11, 1941

 Item — Box 59: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 6
Identifier: 05906210
Scope and Contents

Agramonte's daughter expresses her approval of the finished Cornwell painting and requests reproductions.

Dates:  September 11, 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 Estela Agramonte Rodriguez Leon to George A. Kellogg,  December 23, 1941

 Item — Box 59: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 6
Identifier: 05906282
Scope and Contents

Agramonte's daughter thanks Kellogg for the print of Cornwell's painting.

Dates:  December 23, 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 Estela Agramonte Rodriguez Leon to James E. Peabody,  March 12, 1935

 Item — Box 33: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 30
Identifier: 03330001
Scope and Contents

Leon thanks Peabody for his work in securing pensions for yellow fever participants. She discusses her mother's death and conditions in Cuba.

Dates:  March 12, 1935
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Estela Agramonte Rodriguez Leon to Philip Showalter Hench,  August 7, 1940

 Item — Box 35: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 76
Identifier: 03576001
Scope and Contents

Rodriguez Leon did not find the negatives Hench requested. She offers further assistance and discusses the Cuban elections.

Dates:  August 7, 1940
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Correspondence between Estela Agramonte Rodriguez Leon and Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Estela Agramonte Rodriguez Leon to Philip Showalter Hench,  February 2, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 42
Identifier: 03842002
Scope and Contents

Rodriguez Leon criticizes the sketches for the Cornwell painting. She believes that they are neither historically nor culturally accurate.

Dates:  February 2, 1941
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Correspondence of Philip Showalter Hench with Estela Agramonte Rodriguez Leon

Letter from Estela Agramonte Rodriguez Leon to Philip Showalter Hench,  September 11, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 42
Identifier: 03842015
Scope and Contents

Rodriguez Leon compliments Hench on his yellow fever history work, and wishes she had more time to devote to the research herself. She has been unable to find the information Hench seeks in her father's papers and fears that the rest of the papers will not be helpful either.

Dates:  September 11, 1941
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Correspondence of Philip Showalter Hench with Estela Agramonte Rodriguez Leon

Letter from Estela Agramonte Rodriguez Leon to Philip Showalter Hench,  April 26, 1948

 Item — Box 58: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 3
Identifier: 05803038
Scope and Contents

Rodriguez Leon congratulates Hench on his campaign to preserve Building No. 1. She mentions that Finlay supporters were disturbed by Truman's speech.

Dates:  April 26, 1948
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VI. Alphabetical files / Materials relating to Estela Agramonte de Rodriguez Leon

Letter from Estela Agramonte Rodriguez Leon to Philip Showalter Hench,  August 6, 1950

 Item — Box 58: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 3
Identifier: 05803042
Scope and Contents

Rodriguez Leon would like her father's papers returned to her because she has promised them for a permanent exhibit. She believes that the data shows her father, Agramonte, was in Havana at the time of Lazear's death. Also, Rodriguez Leon lists papers that belonged to her father, Aristides Agramonte, that are on loan to Hench.

Dates:  August 6, 1950
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VI. Alphabetical files / Materials relating to Estela Agramonte de Rodriguez Leon

Letter from Estela Agramonte Rodriguez Leon to Philip Showalter Hench,  August 29, 1950

 Item — Box 58: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 3
Identifier: 05803052
Scope and Contents

Rodriguez Leon has learned from her husband that he was able to retrieve her father's documents from the post office.

Dates:  August 29, 1950
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VI. Alphabetical files / Materials relating to Estela Agramonte de Rodriguez Leon

Letter from Estela Agramonte to Philip Showalter Hench, December 8, 1953

 Item — Box 147: Series uva-lib:2231610, Folder: 16
Identifier: uva-lib:2232184
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: December 8, 1953
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series XIV. P. Kahler Hench additions

Letter from Estelle Adamson to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  May 31, 1927

 Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 22
Identifier: 03122003
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 Eugene R. Whitmore to Henry Rose Carter, November 23, 1917

 Item — Box 8: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 11
Identifier: 00811058
Scope and Contents

Whitmore requests Carter's opinion for a paper he is writing. Whitmore discusses Weil's Disease and its relation to yellow fever.

Dates: November 23, 1917
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 Evans S. Pillsbury to Mabel H. Lazear, April 29, 1908

 Item — Box 4: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 44
Identifier: 00444014
Scope and Contents

Pillsbury informs Mabel Lazear that the members of the House of Representatives from California will do all they can to pass the Senate pension bill.

Dates: April 29, 1908
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series I. Jesse W. Lazear / Letters and documents relating to a pension for Mabel H. Lazear

Letter from Evelyn B. Tilden to Florence M. Read,  November 12, 1923

 Item — Box 11: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 21
Identifier: 01121008
Scope and Contents

Tilden sends a pathology report on a West African fever case. He has forwarded the tissue blocks to Darling.

Dates:  November 12, 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 Everett Corder to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  June 1, 1927

 Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 22
Identifier: 03122014
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 F. Bustinza to Philip Showalter Hench, September 8, 1950

 Item — Box 43: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 45
Identifier: 04345005
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: September 8, 1950
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 F. Bustinza to Philip Showalter Hench,  circa December 1951

 Item — Box 43: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 84
Identifier: 04384015
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:  circa December 1951
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 F. Bustinza to Philip Showalter Hench,  June 8, 1949

 Item — Box 43: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 9
Identifier: 04309001
Scope and Contents

Bustinza seeks photographs of Reed and Lazear from Hench, for a book he is writing.

Dates:  June 8, 1949
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 F. E. Pettman to The Rockefeller Foundation,  May 25, 1923

 Item — Box 11: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 13
Identifier: 01113009
Scope and Contents

Pettman is nearly out of yellow fever vaccine. He describes the case of an Italian who died of yellow fever and lists yellow fever deaths among whites in the Gold Coast.

Dates:  May 25, 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 F. Marti Ibanez to Philip Showalter Hench,  November 10, 1944

 Item — Box 40: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 50
Identifier: 04050004
Scope and Contents

Ibanez sends copies of "Horizontes Medicos," containing the article on Building No. 1 of Camp Lazear, to Hench.

Dates:  November 10, 1944
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Correspondence and other materials relating to the preservation of the surviving building at Camp Lazear