Interpersonal relations

Siler informs Hench of the Walter Reed Memorial Association meeting date and site. Sawyer would like to contact Hench.

Siler discusses plans to place markers in the room where Walter Reed died, located in the present Army War College. He will send Hench a copy of the Reed Memorial board from last year.

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.

Siler discusses the pension that the Walter Reed Memorial Association provides for Emilie Lawrence Reed.

James Reed writes that he regrets having missed Peabody's visit. He provides information about himself and his brothers.

James Reed writes that he regrets having missed Peabody's visit. He provides information about himself and his brothers.

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 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 thanks Pilcher for mentoring him early in his career.

Baker is sending Hench clippings of two articles that appeared in “Excelsior.” He regrets that the reporter published the articles without allowing Rojas and Baker check them, but thinks that the reporter explained cortisone use fairly well.

Heard discusses Hench's research on the yellow fever experiments.

Peabody seeks clarification of information for a pamphlet on yellow fever for the American Museum of Natural History.

Peabody thanks Emilie Lawrence Reed for gifts and sends her a copy of a lecture on Walter Reed.

Eckman sends Hench a letter from Morris Leikind, who is seeking information on Reed for a paper he is writing.

Pilcher encloses a letter from Carroll, written in 1901.

Phalen returns Laura Carter's manuscripts and sends his revised biographical sketch of Henry Rose Carter.

Leake feels that Hench's book offers an opportunity to clarify conflicting claims concerning the yellow fever experiments. Leake is especially interested in Carter's role. He has written to Carter's son and will let Hench know when he receives a reply.

Kean has attempted to identify the persons in the photographs from Truby, some of whom he describes. Kean discusses his large accumulation of personal papers and books, which will be deposited at the University of Virginia after his death. Kean describes his recent illness and its effects. He lists new members of the Walter Reed Memorial Association, and expresses his apprehension that Hench might not finish his yellow fever magnum opus.

Kean inquires about Truby's recollections of the circumstances of Lazear's contraction of yellow fever. He informs Truby that the Cubans intended to memorialize the room at Las Animas where Lazear was said to have been bitten. Kean informed them that this was not true.

Kean discusses the unjustified claims in the Gorgas biography by Burton Hendrick and Marie Gorgas, relates news of an old acquaintance and of his health, and expresses his sympathy for Cuban sensitivity about Finlay.