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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 Helen A. King to Philip Showalter Hench, August 5, 1952

 Item — Box 146: Series uva-lib:2231610, Folder: 83
Identifier: uva-lib:2232135
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: August 5, 1952
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series XIV. P. Kahler Hench additions

Letter from Helen Bost to Henry Rose Carter,  February 6, 1923

 Item — Box 10: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 21
Identifier: 01021033
Scope and Contents

Bost thanks Carter for the doll and candy.

Dates:  February 6, 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 Helen Cassidy to Philip Showalter Hench,  February 10, 1953

 Item — Box 46: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 5
Identifier: 04605027
Scope and Contents

Cassidy would like details on how Hench became interested in Camp Lazear.

Dates:  February 10, 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 Helen Cassidy to Philip Showalter Hench,  December 6, 1952

 Item — Box 45: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 1
Identifier: 04501002
Scope and Contents

Cassidy informs Hench that she would like to publish a piece about Walter Reed, the recent dedication ceremony in Cuba, and Hench's continued interest in the story. She inquires if he would be willing to lend manuscripts or reprints that might furnish background material.

Dates:  December 6, 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 Helen Chapman to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  May 31, 1927

 Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 22
Identifier: 03122016
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 Helen Crone Nolte to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  February 14, 1931

 Item — Box 32: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 52
Identifier: 03252001
Scope and Contents

Nolte requests permission to name a son after Walter Reed.

Dates:  February 14, 1931
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Helen Duprey Bullock to Javier Malagon,  July 11, 1952

 Item — Box 44: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 25
Identifier: 04425001
Scope and Contents

Bullock inquires if Malagon knows of any organizations in Cuba that are concerned with the preservation of historical monuments, and whether there are any provisions in Cuban law for the protection of such sites. Bullock mentions Hench's interest in the preservation of Building No. 1 at Camp Lazear.

Dates:  July 11, 1952
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Helen Duprey Bullock to Philip Showalter Hench, November 5, 1958

 Item — Box 66: Series uva-lib:2230196, Folder: 42
Identifier: uva-lib:2230234
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: November 5, 1958
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VIII. Miscellany

Letter from Helen M. Sturgis to Howard A. Kelly,  circa 1907

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 31
Identifier: 02931050
Scope and Contents

Sturgis sends a contribution for Kissinger.

Dates:  circa 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 Helen Wheeler to Philip Showalter Hench,  October 2, 1940

 Item — Box 36: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 34
Identifier: 03634003
Scope and Contents

Wheeler reports that she has found several items Peabody gave to the library.

Dates:  October 2, 1940
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous correspondence received by Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Helen Wheeler to Philip Showalter Hench,  October 26, 1940

 Item — Box 36: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 34
Identifier: 03634046
Scope and Contents

Wheeler informs Hench he may copy any of the library's yellow fever material.

Dates:  October 26, 1940
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous correspondence received by Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Helen Wheeler to Philip Showalter Hench,  March 14, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 7
Identifier: 03807008
Scope and Contents

Wheeler thanks Hench for the items he sent her concerning yellow fever.

Dates:  March 14, 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 Helen Wheeler to Philip Showalter Hench,  September 19, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 27
Identifier: 03827005
Scope and Contents

Wheeler writes that she has received the yellow fever material sent by Hench and will look for the additional materials he requested. She informs him of the location of the Lazear memorial tablet at Johns Hopkins University.

Dates:  September 19, 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 Helen Wheeler to Philip Showalter Hench,  December 6, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 39
Identifier: 03839017
Scope and Contents

Wheeler cannot explain the loss of some letters from the Peabody material. She discusses the Kelly collection of photographs used in his publication Walter Reed and Yellow Fever.

Dates:  December 6, 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 Henry A. Christian to Philip Showalter Hench,  June 10, 1948

 Item — Box 42: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 24
Identifier: 04224009
Scope and Contents

Christian discusses his personal relationships with a number of the yellow fever investigators. He notes that it was not highly unusual for a student to complete the University of Virginia medical course in one year, as Reed did.

Dates:  June 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 Henry Binley to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  February 17, 1928

 Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 44
Identifier: 03144001
Scope and Contents

Binley writes to Emilie Lawrence Reed regarding a lecture by Peabody on yellow fever.

Dates:  February 17, 1928
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Henry E. Sigerist to Philip Showalter Hench,  December 26, 1940

 Item — Box 37: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 10
Identifier: 03710001
Scope and Contents

Sigerist would like to publish Hench's lecture on the history of the Yellow Fever Commission in Johns Hopkins University's "Bulletin of the History of Medicine."

Dates:  December 26, 1940
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous correspondence and notes of Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Henry E. Sigerist to Philip Showalter Hench,  January 28, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 1
Identifier: 03801025
Scope and Contents

Sigerist informs Hench that Johns Hopkins is unable to publish Hench's various papers as a monograph.

Dates:  January 28, 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 Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton to Henry Rose Carter, September 19, 1921

 Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 15
Identifier: 00915033
Scope and Contents

The publishing house of Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton sends Carter a prospectus for a new set of books, entitledThe Practice of Medicine in the Tropics.

Dates: September 19, 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 Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton to Henry Rose Carter, 1921

 Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 15
Identifier: 00915035
Scope and Contents

The publishing house of Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton sends Carter a prospectus for a new set of books, entitled "The Practice of Medicine in the Tropics."

Dates: 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