Physicians

Siler thanks Hench for providing a check to enable delivery of the Finlay Medals, but informs him that the Walter Reed Memorial Association wishes to fund this objective.

Carroll presents his autobiography. He includes a note on immunity to yellow fever.

Carroll presents a chronology of Walter Reed's involvement with the Yellow Fever Commission. Carroll gives his own autobiography and provides information on the other participants in the study.

Carroll gives Latimer permission to quote from letters that he provided to her. He objects to their characterization of his work after Walter Reed's experiments.

Carroll will meet Latimer to discuss Kelly's book. Carroll offers corrections, and states that Lazear's work is not given due credit.

Carroll requests that Latimer return his letters. He grants Latimer permission to copy or borrow them again.

Carroll thanks Latimer for the prompt return of his letters. He has discovered three more letters from Walter Reed and makes them all available to Latimer and Kelly.

Carroll comments on Kelly's manuscript. He corrects errors of fact, and objects to the attention given Reed to the detriment of himself, Lazear, and the rest of the Yellow Fever Commission.

Carroll will provide Kelly with letters for his biography of Reed. Carroll anticipates writing a defense of himself only if necessary.

Carroll appeals to Kelly to consider Carroll's own statement of the facts concerning the responsibilities and actions of the Yellow Fever Board members. Carroll objects to Kean's version of the events and to Kelly's assertions in his book.

Carroll forwards to Kelly his account of the autopsy of the first fatal case in his yellow fever experiments.

Carroll forwards Kelly two photographs. He states that he will not attend the Walter Reed Memorial Association dinner in Brooklyn.

Carroll claims that Reed, Stark, Kean, and another unnamed man colluded to promote Stark over him. He believes this was because Kean was not appointed to the Yellow Fever Board after Lazear's death.

Carroll requests the return of his letter describing a post mortem exam.

Carroll sends a note of gratitude for Kelly's letter to Secretary Wilson.

Carroll sends Howard a female mosquito collected near Las Animas Hospital.

Carroll asks to borrow a journal from Howard that is not in the library. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Carroll thanks Howard for the eggs and mosquitoes. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Carroll thanks Howard for the boxes of Stegomyia eggs. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Carroll writes about the Yellow Fever Board's determination to investigate the mosquito theory. Carroll claims that he first proposed Board inoculate themselves. Included is an apparent draft, with autograph notations, and a final copy of the same letter.