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Letter from Albert E. Truby to Philip Showalter Hench,  circa November 2, 1948

 Item — Box 64: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 13
Identifier: 06413290
Scope and Contents

Truby discusses photographs of Cuba. He includes one of his own drawings of the 8th Infantry Camp at La Punta.

Dates:  circa November 2, 1948
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Albert E. Truby, Jefferson Randolph Kean, and Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Albert E. Truby to Philip Showalter Hench,  November 17, 1949

 Item — Box 65: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 1
Identifier: 06501060
Scope and Contents

Truby commends Hench on his work with cortisone in treating rheumatic fever, and encloses two communications he has received from men who were at Columbia Barracks during the yellow fever experiments.

Dates:  November 17, 1949
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Albert E. Truby, Jefferson Randolph Kean, and Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Albert E. Truby to Philip Showalter Hench,  May 26, 1951

 Item — Box 65: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 4
Identifier: 06504036
Scope and Contents

Truby is extremely critical of Standlee's manuscript, and believes that she is not competent to write an accurate account. He encloses a copy of his letter to her.

Dates:  May 26, 1951
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Albert E. Truby, Jefferson Randolph Kean, and Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Albert E. Truby to Philip Showalter Hench,  January 30, 1953

 Item — Box 65: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 7
Identifier: 06507009
Scope and Contents

Truby discusses the Camp Lazear National Monument and Nogueira's efforts in establishing the monument. Truby expresses his displeasure at the inaccuracies in an article about “Finlay Field.”

Dates:  January 30, 1953
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Albert E. Truby, Jefferson Randolph Kean, and Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Albert E. Truby to Philip Showalter Hench,  July 1, 1953

 Item — Box 65: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 7
Identifier: 06507053
Scope and Contents

Truby comments on the financial records from Camp Lazear, which Hench had sent to him.

Dates:  July 1, 1953
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Albert E. Truby, Jefferson Randolph Kean, and Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Albert E. Truby to Philip Showalter Hench,  October 3, 1953

 Item — Box 65: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 7
Identifier: 06507062
Scope and Contents

Truby describes his physical condition and also states that Finlay deserves credit for all the help he gave to Reed. He encloses a letter from John Kelly.

Dates:  October 3, 1953
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Albert E. Truby, Jefferson Randolph Kean, and Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Albert E. Truby to Philip Showalter Hench,  December 6, 1940

 Item — Box 37: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 8
Identifier: 03708001
Scope and Contents

Truby thanks Hench for the clippings and program from the Lazear memorial event. He would like to have his manuscript returned soon so that he may make revisions. He reveals new information about the buildings of the yellow fever hospital and believes Lazear died in one of them.

Dates:  December 6, 1940
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Correspondence between Philip Showalter Hench and Albert E. Truby

Letter from Albert E. Truby to Philip Showalter Hench,  December 23, 1940

 Item — Box 37: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 8
Identifier: 03708004
Scope and Contents

Truby hopes to have Hench's comments on his manuscript by January 15, 1941. He would like to hear about the Washington and Jefferson College memorial events.

Dates:  December 23, 1940
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Correspondence between Philip Showalter Hench and Albert E. Truby

Letter from Albert E. Truby to Philip Showalter Hench,  September 10, 1940

 Item — Box 36: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 3
Identifier: 03603002
Scope and Contents

Truby criticizes some members of the Yellow Fever Commission for seeking undue credit. He verifies that his source of information on Lazear's death was Reed.

Dates:  September 10, 1940
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Correspondence between Philip Showalter Hench and Albert E. Truby

Letter from Albert E. Truby to Philip Showalter Hench,  September 12, 1940

 Item — Box 36: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 3
Identifier: 03603005
Scope and Contents

Truby requests that Hench keep the information he provided on Agramonte confidential.

Dates:  September 12, 1940
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Correspondence between Philip Showalter Hench and Albert E. Truby

Letter from Albert G. Love to Bessie M. Griswold,  December 20, 1951

 Item — Box 43: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 84
Identifier: 04384007
Scope and Contents

Love thanks Griswold for her monetary gift to the Walter Reed Memorial Association.

Dates:  December 20, 1951
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 Albert G. Love to Cornelia Knox Kean,  November 14, 1952

 Item — Box 65: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 4
Identifier: 06504130
Scope and Contents

Love proofreads Kean's letter to the Cuban committee and suggests a spelling correction.

Dates:  November 14, 1952
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Albert E. Truby, Jefferson Randolph Kean, and Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Alberto Recio to Philip Showalter Hench,  August 7, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 41
Identifier: 03841008
Scope and Contents

Recio informs Hench that he was able to locate the requested booklet and will send it to him. He plans to have an accurate survey made of the old Camp Lazear site.

Dates:  August 7, 1941
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 with Alberto Recio

Letter from Alberto Recio to Philip Showalter Hench,  December 13, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 41
Identifier: 03841010
Scope and Contents

Recio thanks Hench for some reprints on the transmission of yellow fever and a copy of Cornwell's painting. He believes that the discovery belongs to Finlay but that the glory should be shared with the American Commission who confirmed his findings.

Dates:  December 13, 1941
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 with Alberto Recio

Letter from Alexander M. Templeton to Mabel H. Lazear, January 31, 1927

 Item — Box 4: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 58
Identifier: 00458001
Scope and Contents

Templeton informs her that reference material on Jesse Lazear is being filed at the [Washington and Jefferson College] library.

Dates: January 31, 1927
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series I. Jesse W. Lazear

Letter from Alfred P. Upshur to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  September 26, 1927

 Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 34
Identifier: 03134001
Scope and Contents

Upshur sends Emilie Lawrence Reed photographs of Belroi and Blue Ridge Summit.

Dates:  September 26, 1927
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Alton P. Tisdel to Philip Showalter Hench,  February 25, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 3
Identifier: 03803029
Scope and Contents

Tisdel provides a list of government publications that are available and those which are out-of-print.

Dates:  February 25, 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 Alton P. Tisdel to Philip Showalter Hench,  August 17, 1937

 Item — Box 34: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 29
Identifier: 03429002
Scope and Contents

Tisdel acknowledges receipt of payment and informs Hench that supplies of the Yellow Fever Commission report are exhausted.

Dates:  August 17, 1937
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Letters from Alton P. Tisdel to Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Alton S. Pope to Laura Armistead Carter,  August 1, 1927

 Item — Box 13: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 2
Identifier: 01302002
Scope and Contents

Pope thanks Laura Carter for Henry Carter's notes. He is impressed that Carter had theorized a living host as an explanation of the extrinsic incubation of yellow fever before this had been proven.

Dates:  August 1, 1927
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Correspondence of Laura Armistead Carter

Letter from Amory H. Hutchinson to Mabel H. Lazear, January 6, 1936

 Item — Box 4: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 75
Identifier: 00475001
Scope and Contents

Hutchinson describes the play she has written, based upon the work of the Yellow Fever Commission.

Dates: January 6, 1936
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series I. Jesse W. Lazear / Letters from Amory Hare Hutchinson to Mabel H. Lazear