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Found in 2404 Collections and/or Records:

Letter from Emilie Lawrence Reed to Howard A. Kelly,  November 12, 1922

 Item — Box 141: Series uva-lib:2231610, Folder: 56
Identifier: 14156001
Scope and Contents

Emilie Lawrence Reed seeks a pension increase. She writes about Marie Gorgas' pension and discusses the public stature of William Gorgas.

Dates:  November 12, 1922
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series XIV. P. Kahler Hench additions / Letter from Emilie Lawrence Reed to Howard A. Kelly with recollections of her family life

Letter from Emilie Lawrence Reed to Ralph Rohrer Whittaker, Jr., 1932

 Item — Box 32: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 75
Identifier: 03275003
Scope and Contents

Emilie Lawrence Reed thanks Whittaker for the sentiments expressed in his address "Unsung Heroes," and inquires if he knows the location of a church window dedicated to Christ, Florence Nightingale, and Walter Reed.

Dates: 1932
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Letters from Richard B. Ritchey to Emilie Lawrence Reed

Letter from Emma G. Kane to Charlotte C. Sweitzer, circa 1914

 Item — Box 4: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 48
Identifier: 00448005
Scope and Contents

Kane thanks Sweitzer for a photograph of Lazear and describes the new Jesse Lazear School.

Dates: circa 1914
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series I. Jesse W. Lazear / Correspondence relating to Jesse W. Lazear

Letter from Emma G. Kane to the President of Johns Hopkins Hospital, January 14, 1914

 Item — Box 4: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 48
Identifier: 00448002
Scope and Contents

Kane requests a photograph of Jesse Lazear.

Dates: January 14, 1914
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series I. Jesse W. Lazear / Correspondence relating to Jesse W. Lazear

Letter from Emmy L. Christensen to Howard A. Kelly,  June 29, 1907

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 31
Identifier: 02931004
Scope and Contents

Christensen sends a contribution for Kissinger.

Dates:  June 29, 1907
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Correspondence relating to contributions for the support of John R. Kissinger

Letter from E.S. Pillsbury to George S. Perkins, April 17, 1908

 Item — Box 4: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 44
Identifier: 00444012
Scope and Contents

Pillsbury writes to Senator Perkins in support of a pension increase for Mabel Lazear.

Dates: April 17, 1908
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series I. Jesse W. Lazear / Letters and documents relating to a pension for Mabel H. Lazear

Letter from E.S. Pillsbury to Mabel H. Lazear, April 17, 1908

 Item — Box 4: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 44
Identifier: 00444011
Scope and Contents

Pillsbury informs Mabel Lazear that he supports her pension and encloses a copy of the letter he sent to Senators Perkins and Flint.

Dates: April 17, 1908
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series I. Jesse W. Lazear / Letters and documents relating to a pension for Mabel H. Lazear

Letter from Estaban Valderrama y Pena to Philip Showalter Hench,  May 16, 1948

 Item — Box 42: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 23
Identifier: 04223020
Scope and Contents

Valderrama y Pena promises to copy items related to Cuban and American yellow fever experiments for Hench. He asserts that in June of 1900 nobody except Finlay and his assistant Delgado believed that mosquitoes transmitted yellow fever.

Dates:  May 16, 1948
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 Estela Agramonte Rodriguez Leon to George A. Kellogg,  September 11, 1941

 Item — Box 59: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 6
Identifier: 05906210
Scope and Contents

Agramonte's daughter expresses her approval of the finished Cornwell painting and requests reproductions.

Dates:  September 11, 1941
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series VI. Alphabetical files / Materials relating to George A. Kellogg

Letter from Estela Agramonte Rodriguez Leon to George A. Kellogg,  December 23, 1941

 Item — Box 59: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 6
Identifier: 05906282
Scope and Contents

Agramonte's daughter thanks Kellogg for the print of Cornwell's painting.

Dates:  December 23, 1941
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series VI. Alphabetical files / Materials relating to George A. Kellogg

Letter from Estela Agramonte Rodriguez Leon to James E. Peabody,  March 12, 1935

 Item — Box 33: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 30
Identifier: 03330001
Scope and Contents

Leon thanks Peabody for his work in securing pensions for yellow fever participants. She discusses her mother's death and conditions in Cuba.

Dates:  March 12, 1935
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Estela Agramonte Rodriguez Leon to Philip Showalter Hench,  August 7, 1940

 Item — Box 35: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 76
Identifier: 03576001
Scope and Contents

Rodriguez Leon did not find the negatives Hench requested. She offers further assistance and discusses the Cuban elections.

Dates:  August 7, 1940
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Correspondence between Estela Agramonte Rodriguez Leon and Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Estela Agramonte Rodriguez Leon to Philip Showalter Hench,  February 2, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 42
Identifier: 03842002
Scope and Contents

Rodriguez Leon criticizes the sketches for the Cornwell painting. She believes that they are neither historically nor culturally accurate.

Dates:  February 2, 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 Estela Agramonte Rodriguez Leon

Letter from F.A. McKenna to Philip Showalter Hench,  March 24, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 7
Identifier: 03807036
Scope and Contents

McKenna lists room prices at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba, in Havana.

Dates:  March 24, 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 F.B. Kain to Laura Armistead Carter,  December 11, 1931

 Item — Box 13: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 8
Identifier: 01308012
Scope and Contents

Kain sends Laura Carter the biography of Henry Rose Carter as it will appear in the National Cyclopedia of Biography and asks her to consider a portrait with the entry, for a fee. He includes a description of the National Cyclopedia.

Dates:  December 11, 1931
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 Federico Gomez to George A. Kellogg,  March 10, 1941

 Item — Box 59: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 6
Identifier: 05906055
Scope and Contents

Gomez requests information that he can use to show the Cuban government the part that Wyeth Company is playing in publicizing Finlay's work.

Dates:  March 10, 1941
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series VI. Alphabetical files / Materials relating to George A. Kellogg

Letter from Felipe Ponce Carbonell to Philip Showalter Hench,  1952

 Item — Box 45: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 7
Identifier: 04507002
Scope and Contents

Carbonell informs Hench that, largely through the efforts of Colete, the Cuban government has approved $50,000 for the preservation of Camp Lazear. However, he is unsure how the money will be used.

Dates:  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 with Felipe Ponce Carbonell concerning memorialization of Camp Lazear and preservation of Building Number One

Letter from Felipe Ponce Carbonell to Philip Showalter Hench,  November 10, 1952

 Item — Box 45: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 7
Identifier: 04507006
Scope and Contents

Carbonell responds to Hench's letter expressing apprehension that the Cuban government will name the Camp Lazear monument after Finlay.

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 with Felipe Ponce Carbonell concerning memorialization of Camp Lazear and preservation of Building Number One

Letter from F.H. Getman to Howard A. Kelly,  July 1, 1907

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 31
Identifier: 02931010
Scope and Contents

Getman sends a contribution for Kissinger.

Dates:  July 1, 1907
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Correspondence relating to contributions for the support of John R. Kissinger

Letter from Fitzhugh Lee to Walter Reed,  September 27, 1898

 Item — Box 18: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 41
Identifier: 01841001
Scope and Contents

Lee presents Reed with a corps badge for sanitary inspection services.

Dates:  September 27, 1898
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed