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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2404 Collections and/or Records:

Letter from Joseph H. White to Wickliffe Rose,  December 21, 1922

 Item — Box 10: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 4
Identifier: 01004050
Scope and Contents

White comments on the unusual yellow fever case of seaman Cose. White reports on the Mexican yellow fever work.

Dates:  December 21, 1922

Letter from Joseph Y. Porter to Henry Rose Carter, January 16, 1914

 Item — Box 7: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 59
Identifier: 00759001
Scope and Contents

Porter thanks Carter for his educational malaria pamphlet for children.

Dates: January 16, 1914

Letter from Joseph Y. Porter to Howard A. Kelly,  November 28, 1904

 Item — Box 27: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 34
Identifier: 02734001
Scope and Contents

Porter confesses he was only a general colleague of Walter Reed, so he is unable to provide much information for Kelly's biography of Reed.

Dates:  November 28, 1904

Letter from Josephine Ames Morris to Philip Showalter Hench,  July 23, 1942

 Item — Box 58: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 4
Identifier: 05804039
Scope and Contents

Morris writes about her brother, Roger Post Ames, and his involvement with the yellow fever experiments. She describes his association with Lazear and his work in Cuba.

Dates:  July 23, 1942

Letter from J.S. Gardiner to Laura Armistead Carter,  September 28, 1925

 Item — Box 12: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 28
Identifier: 01228037
Scope and Contents

Gardiner refers to clippings about Henry Carter.

Dates:  September 28, 1925

Letter from Juan Guiteras to Henry Rose Carter,  June 23, 1922

 Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 33
Identifier: 00933018
Scope and Contents

Guiteras provides Carter with his new address in Cuba.

Dates:  June 23, 1922

Letter from Juan Guiteras to Henry Rose Carter, March 4, 1917

 Item — Box 8: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 11
Identifier: 00811014
Scope and Contents

Guiteras sends Carter a copy of his extensive report to Gorgas concerning a Barbados epidemic.

Dates: March 4, 1917

Letter from Juan Guiteras to Jefferson Randolph Kean,  March 19, 1908

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 26
Identifier: 06226001
Scope and Contents

Guiteras disputes Gorgas' theories about immunity to yellow fever and eradication of the disease.

Dates:  March 19, 1908

Letter from [Juan Guiteras] to William Crawford Gorgas, December 22, 1916

 Item — Box 8: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 11
Identifier: 00811015
Scope and Contents

[Guiteras] reports to Gorgas on a Barbados epidemic, which he suspects may be yellow fever.

Dates: December 22, 1916

Letter from Julian Zunzunegui [Lopez] to Philip Showalter Hench,  October 18, 1940

 Item — Box 36: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 33
Identifier: 03633001
Scope and Contents

Lopez states that his father leased land from Ignacio Rojas and that he himself lived in the structure identified as Camp Lazear Building No. 1 by Moran. He describes some of the structural features as unusual for Cuban buildings and states that Building No. 2 was torn down in 1927.

Dates:  October 18, 1940

Letter from J.V. Sutton to Henry Rose Carter,  November 15, 1922

 Item — Box 10: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 3
Identifier: 01003031
Scope and Contents

Sutton informs Carter that the Camden court cases will not be tried.

Dates:  November 15, 1922

Letter from L. Evans Parcell to Philip Showalter Hench,  November 9, 1940

 Item — Box 37: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 5
Identifier: 03705008
Scope and Contents

Parcell describes the dioramas he has constructed and quotes Hench a price for them.

Dates:  November 9, 1940

Letter from L. O. Howard to James Carroll,  November 18, 1902

 Item — Box 26: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 40
Identifier: 02640001
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Howard wants to borrow a photograph of Lazear from Carroll in order to have a slide made. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  November 18, 1902

Letter from L. O. Howard to James Carroll,  November 22, 1902

 Item — Box 26: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 41
Identifier: 02641001
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Howard asks Carroll for extra copies of his paper on the yellow fever mosquito. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  November 22, 1902

Letter from L. O. Howard to James Carroll,  November 8, 1900

 Item — Box 21: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 72
Identifier: 02172001
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Howard provides information to Carroll about a certain species of mosquito. Howard then asks Carroll to catch a species of mosquito for his own research, which is believed to have migrated to Cuba in slave ships years ago. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  November 8, 1900

Letter from L. Osgood to Howard A. Kelly,  circa September 19, 1907

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 3
Identifier: 02903001
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Osgood sends a contribution for Kissinger.

Dates:  circa September 19, 1907

Letter from Landon Reed to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  September 14, 1929

 Item — Box 32: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 10
Identifier: 03210001
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Landon Reed writes about her husband Lawrence Reed's promotion to post inspector.

Dates:  September 14, 1929

Letter from Laura Armistead Carter to Editor,  October 22, 1928

 Item — Box 13: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 5
Identifier: 01305004
Scope and Contents

Laura Carter sends the editor corrections for a biographical sketch of Henry Carter.

Dates:  October 22, 1928

Letter from Laura Armistead Carter to Emma Coleman Carter, September 23, 1894

 Item — Box 7: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 22
Identifier: 00722001
Scope and Contents

Laura Carter describes a boat trip with her father and brother, as well as a hurricane and the damage it caused.

Dates: September 23, 1894

Letter from [Laura Armistead Carter] to Florence M. Read,  October 31, 1924

 Item — Box 12: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 13
Identifier: 01213028
Scope and Contents

Laura Carter sends Read a financial statement concerning H.R. Carter's work on the "History of Yellow Fever."

Dates:  October 31, 1924