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Found in 2404 Collections and/or Records:

Letter from Caroline Latimer to Howard A. Kelly,  circa June 18, 1908

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 56
Identifier: 02956003
Scope and Contents

Latimer agrees that Kelly and herself should stop supporting the Kissingers, but she still wants to find alternative sources of income for them.

Dates:  circa June 18, 1908
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Letters from Caroline Latimer concerning John Kissinger

Letter from Caroline Latimer to Howard A. Kelly,  November 19, 1908

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 56
Identifier: 02956006
Scope and Contents

Latimer writes that it may be necessary to appeal directly to Andrew Carnegie himself on behalf of the Kissingers.

Dates:  November 19, 1908
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Letters from Caroline Latimer concerning John Kissinger

Letter from Caroline Latimer to Howard A. Kelly,  November 23, 1908

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 56
Identifier: 02956009
Scope and Contents

Latimer reports problems with the Carnegie Fund application.

Dates:  November 23, 1908
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Letters from Caroline Latimer concerning John Kissinger

Letter from Caroline Latimer to [s.n.] Waterson,  September 26, 1912

 Item — Box 30: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 11
Identifier: 03011004
Scope and Contents

Latimer writes to Waterson regarding Kissinger's pension.

Dates:  September 26, 1912
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Letters from Caroline Latimer to [s.n.] Waterson

Letter from Carolyn H. Booth to Howard A. Kelly,  July 17, 1907

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 27
Identifier: 02927002
Scope and Contents

Booth offers assistance to the Kissinger family.

Dates:  July 17, 1907
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Correspondence relating to attempts to secure a pension for John R. Kissinger

Letter from Carolyn H. Booth to Howard A. Kelly,  circa 1907

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 27
Identifier: 02927007
Scope and Contents

Booth writes to Kelly regarding efforts to secure a pension 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 attempts to secure a pension for John R. Kissinger

Letter from Carolyn H. Booth to Howard A. Kelly,  October 14, 1907

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 27
Identifier: 02927010
Scope and Contents

Booth writes to Kelly regarding efforts to secure a pension for Kissinger.

Dates:  October 14, 1907
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Correspondence relating to attempts to secure a pension for John R. Kissinger

Letter from Carolyn Townsend to Laura Armistead Carter,  January 13, 1928

 Item — Box 13: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 5
Identifier: 01305001
Scope and Contents

Townsend relates family news to Laura Carter. She sends a clipping on great names in preventive medicine, including Henry Carter.

Dates:  January 13, 1928
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 C.C. Fletcher to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  April 3, 1929

 Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 77
Identifier: 03177001
Scope and Contents

Fletcher provides gardening advice.

Dates:  April 3, 1929
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from C.C. Williamson to Henry Rose Carter,  June 27, 1922

 Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 33
Identifier: 00933023
Scope and Contents

Williamson requests that Carter review a manuscript on the yellow fever campaign in Ecuador. He suggests it may be useful for Carter's planned publication on the history of yellow fever.

Dates:  June 27, 1922
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 Cesar Rodriguez Exposito to Cornelia Knox Kean,  November 14, 1952

 Item — Box 65: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 4
Identifier: 06504129
Scope and Contents

Rodriguez Exposito invites Kean to a ceremony unveiling a bust of the heroes of the yellow fever experiments and a plaque honoring those involved in the experiments.

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 Cesar Rodriguez Exposito to Philip Showalter Hench,  November 10, 1952

 Item — Box 44: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 33
Identifier: 04433006
Scope and Contents

Exposito invites Hench to attend and speak at the dedication ceremony for Camp Lazear.

Dates:  November 10, 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 relating the dedicatory ceremonies for the memorial park at the site of Camp Lazear

Letter from C.H. Bridges to Mabel H. Lazear, March 6, 1930

 Item — Box 4: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 66
Identifier: 00466001
Scope and Contents

Bridges informs Mabel Lazear that Jesse Lazear's name is now on the Roll of Honor.

Dates: March 6, 1930
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series I. Jesse W. Lazear

Letter from Charles E. Magoon to J.W. Amesse,  June 30, 1908

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 43
Identifier: 02943001
Scope and Contents

Magoon urges Amesse to support an end to the quarantine of Cuba, arguing that there is no danger to the United States.

Dates:  June 30, 1908
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Charles H. Coles to Philip Showalter Hench,  January 22, 1942

 Item — Box 39: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 6
Identifier: 03906075
Scope and Contents

Coles has mailed Hench photographs. He encloses annotated references to publications on yellow fever.

Dates:  January 22, 1942
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 Charles Inman and Elizabeth Fitzpatrick to James E. Watson,  November 22, 1926

 Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 7
Identifier: 03107003
Scope and Contents

Representatives of the New York Association of Biology Teachers petition Sen. Watson to seek Congressional action on pensions for Kissinger and widows of Yellow Fever Commission participants.

Dates:  November 22, 1926
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Letter from James E. Peabody to Howard A. Kelly with related materials

Letter from Charles L. Lhotka to Philip Showalter Hench,  February 4, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 3
Identifier: 03803008
Scope and Contents

Lhotka explains the procedure for an inter-library loan. He lists all documents containing information on the work of the Yellow Fever Commission.

Dates:  February 4, 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 Charles M. Gandy to Simon Flexner,  October 15, 1913

 Item — Box 30: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 17
Identifier: 03017005
Scope and Contents

Gandy discusses the various photographs of Walter Reed that are suitable for hanging at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  October 15, 1913
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Records of the Surgeon General's Office relating to the military career of Walter Reed

Letter from Charles M. Gandy to Simon Flexner,  October 17, 1913

 Item — Box 30: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 17
Identifier: 03017008
Scope and Contents

Gandy informs Flexner that a negative of one of Reed's photographs is broken. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  October 17, 1913
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Records of the Surgeon General's Office relating to the military career of Walter Reed

Letter from Charles W. Comstock to George Schobinger,  September 11, 1922

 Item — Box 10: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 21
Identifier: 01021008
Scope and Contents

Comstock describes possible yellow fever cases to Schobinger. All involve foreigners in Brazil. Comstock criticizes the local physicians' attitude and treatment of the cases.

Dates:  September 11, 1922
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