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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...

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McEwen approves of Hench's idea of having a Bellevue Medical School representative at the Camp Lazear dedication. He will contact an alumnus in Havana to attend, and also send a wire on the occasion.

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Schnurr relays to Hench that Kissinger suffered a stroke and is unconscious.

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Godfrey requests a wagon to pick up the baggage of the arriving medical officers. Included is a handwritten note by Truby. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

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Lappage informs Hench that there will be receptions on January 23 and January 24.

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Lappage requests that Hench edit the final draft of his speech and mail it to her.

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Lappage informs Hench there will be no discussion of his paper, no occasion for informal remarks, and no facilities for showing his film. His bibliography can be whatever length he deems suitable.

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The Peabodys regret that they cannot attend the Washington and Jefferson College event.

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Leon cables approval of Hench's statements in his Lazear memorial speech.

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Rodriguez Leon informs Hench that her father's materials are at the Agramonte Library at Louisiana State University Medical Center.

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Read sends her condolences upon the death of Henry Carter.

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Rath informs Hench that a meeting with General Grant is possible on Monday, February 25.

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Kellogg gives Hench information on the upcoming unveiling of the Cornwell painting.

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Kellogg will invite Ireland to the unveiling of the Cornwell painting. He discusses Hench's speech for the event.

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Kellogg has read Hench's address on the unveiling of Cornwell's painting with pleasure. He will rearrange the schedule and have sections of the speech released to the press.

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George Miller Sternberg requests Hurd to inform Mrs. Jesse W. Lazear about her husband's condition.

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a request for report on Jesse W. Lazear's daily condition

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The telegram concerns Jesse W. Lazear's illness.

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George Miller Sternberg informs William Osler about Jesse W. Lazear's death.

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Corbin informs Wood that Carroll is to return to Washington, D. C. no later than November 1, 1901. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]