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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 Gwen Harvey to Bill Croasdale,  November 19, 1953

 Item — Box 46: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 19
Identifier: 04619025
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 19, 1953
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 Gwen Harvey to Philip Showalter Hench,  November 5, 1953

 Item — Box 46: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 19
Identifier: 04619005
Scope and Contents

Harvey informs Hench that she has no control over the release of the "You Are There" film dealing with yellow fever. However, she recommends whom he should contact.

Dates:  November 5, 1953
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 Gwen Harvey to Philip Showalter Hench,  November 25, 1953

 Item — Box 46: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 19
Identifier: 04619024
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 25, 1953
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 H. Boyd Wylie to Philip Showalter Hench,  February 5, 1953

 Item — Box 46: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 5
Identifier: 04605021
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:  February 5, 1953
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 H. Boyd Wylie to Philip Showalter Hench,  November 26, 1952

 Item — Box 44: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 33
Identifier: 04433053
Scope and Contents

Wylie has asked University of Maryland School of Medicine alumnus Jose Echeverria to represent the school at the Camp Lazear dedication. A wreath will be laid in memory of Maryland alumnus Carroll.

Dates:  November 26, 1952
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 relating the dedicatory ceremonies for the memorial park at the site of Camp Lazear

Letter from H. Boyd Wylie to Philip Showalter Hench,  December 9, 1952

 Item — Box 45: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 1
Identifier: 04501004
Scope and Contents

Wylie sends Hench a copy of the letter sent to him by Echeverria, indicating how much Echeverria enjoyed taking part in the Camp Lazear exercises.

Dates:  December 9, 1952
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 concerning news reports of the dedicatory ceremonies at the site of Camp Lazear

Letter from H. C. Corbin to the Chairman of the Committee on Pensions,  January 22, 1903

 Item — Box 27: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 12
Identifier: 02712005
Scope and Contents

Corbin sends a statement of military service of Reed to the Committee on Pensions regarding Senate Bill #6702. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  January 22, 1903
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Materials relating to military career of Walter Reed

Letter from H. C. Woodfall to Henry Rose Carter, November 9, 1921

 Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 16
Identifier: 00916024
Scope and Contents

Woodfall informs Carter that all papers dealing with malaria have been sent to LePrince.

Dates: November 9, 1921
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 H. Carter Redd to Laura Armistead Carter,  December 2, 1925

 Item — Box 12: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 32
Identifier: 01232001
Scope and Contents

Redd discusses Carter's estate and mentions the appreciation of his work during a Kiwanis Club function.

Dates:  December 2, 1925
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter

Letter from H. Carter Redd to Philip Showalter Hench,  November 15, 1947

 Item — Box 41: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 39
Identifier: 04139017
Scope and Contents

Redd sends Hench a transcription of a 1901 letter from Reed to Carter in which Reed states that Carter's work in Mississippi greatly impressed upon him the importance of an intermediate host for yellow fever. Redd refers Hench to an article on Carter, by Griffitts, in "The Southern Medical Journal."

Dates:  November 15, 1947
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 H. Carter Redd to Philip Showalter Hench,  December 19, 1947

 Item — Box 41: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 43
Identifier: 04143013
Scope and Contents

Redd informs Hench that he can add very little information regarding Carter's ties to Reed and Lazear. He provides the address of Carter's son, and notes that Edward Stitt, husband of Carter's deceased daughter Laura, probably knows a great deal more than he. According to Redd, Carter disliked publicity and would not allow interviews.

Dates:  December 19, 1947
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 H. Carter Redd to Philip Showalter Hench,  January 13, 1948

 Item — Box 42: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 1
Identifier: 04201009
Scope and Contents

Redd discusses his efforts to obtain Carter's correspondences for Hench. Redd has found many references to Carter's malaria and yellow fever work in the letters, as well as scattered references to Walter Reed.

Dates:  January 13, 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 H. Carter Redd to Philip Showalter Hench,  January 23, 1948

 Item — Box 42: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 1
Identifier: 04201019
Scope and Contents

Redd discusses Carter's extant correspondence, noting that much of it consists of social matters regarding Carter's daughter, Laura. Redd discusses Laura's important role in her father's work.

Dates:  January 23, 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 H. Carter Redd to Philip Showalter Hench,  January 26, 1948

 Item — Box 42: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 1
Identifier: 04201026
Scope and Contents

Redd describes two letters he found concerning Carter's yellow fever work, and notes that he eliminated a lot of correspondence between Carter and Redd and Carter and his lawyer. He will send Hench the material if Carter's son approves.

Dates:  January 26, 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 H. Carter Redd to Philip Showalter Hench,  February 10, 1948

 Item — Box 42: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 5
Identifier: 04205009
Scope and Contents

Redd discusses the unorganized state of Carter's correspondence, noting that the papers were stored in trunks without any cataloguing system.

Dates:  February 10, 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 H. Carter Redd to Philip Showalter Hench,  March 5, 1948

 Item — Box 42: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 12
Identifier: 04212008
Scope and Contents

Redd informs Hench that he will be sending the trunks, containing the Carter correspondence, shortly.

Dates:  March 5, 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 H. Carter Redd to Philip Showalter Hench,  April 3, 1948

 Item — Box 42: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 14
Identifier: 04214008
Scope and Contents

Redd has sent Hench the Carter materials, but notes that they are not organized in any way.

Dates:  April 3, 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 H. Carter Redd to Philip Showalter Hench,  April 19, 1948

 Item — Box 42: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 14
Identifier: 04214051
Scope and Contents

Redd informs Hench that he may keep the Carter materials as long as he wishes, and that Redd will look over the Carter photographs and send appropriate ones. Redd knows of only two Walter Reed letters in the materials.

Dates:  April 19, 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 H. G. Armstrong to Frederick F. Russell,  July 20, 1923

 Item — Box 11: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 13
Identifier: 01113029
Scope and Contents

Armstrong encloses a report on the fever outbreak on the steamer “Garth Castle.”

Dates:  July 20, 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 H. L. Mencken to Howard A. Kelly with copy of Mencken's review of Kelly's book, September 22, 1923

 File — Box 53: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 2
Identifier: uva-lib:2229231
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 22, 1923
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench