Mosquitoes

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 Alice B. Gould to Howard A. Kelly, July 30, 1907

Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 31

Identifier: 02931042

Scope and Contents

Gould sends a contribution for Kissinger.

Dates: July 30, 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 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

Letter from Aristides Agramonte to Howard A. Kelly, March 22, 1905

Item — Box 27: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 56

Identifier: 02756001

Scope and Contents

Agramonte writes about the responsibilities of the Yellow Fever Commission members, and gives a brief chronology of their activities.

Dates: March 22, 1905

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Aristides Agramonte to Jefferson Randolph Kean, March 12, 1928

Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 72

Identifier: 06272001

Scope and Contents

Agramonte appreciates Kean's balanced report of the yellow fever work. He comments on current yellow fever work.

Dates: March 12, 1928

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Jefferson Randolph Kean

Letter from Aristides Agramonte to Jefferson Randolph Kean, July 3, 1908

Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 61

Identifier: 02961004

Scope and Contents

Agramonte describes his role with the Yellow Fever Commission. Included are autograph notes by Truby and Hench.

Dates: July 3, 1908

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Correspondence of Aristides Agramonte relating to his role in the conquest of yellow fever with notes by Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Aristides Agramonte to Jessie Daniel Ames, May 27, 1930

Item — Box 32: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 41

Identifier: 03241002

Scope and Contents

Agramonte informs Mrs. Ames about her husband's actions and responsibilities with the yellow fever board in Cuba, enclosing answers to questions she has posed.

Dates: May 27, 1930

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Letter from Aristides Agramonte to Jessie Daniel Ames with enclosed questionnaire

Letter from A.S. Pinto to Albert E. Truby, October 20, 1941

Item — Box 63: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 6

Identifier: 06306147

Scope and Contents

Pinto forwards his belief that Carroll tried to take credit for the mosquito theory after Lazear's death. He thinks Dean was bitten by a mosquito while in the ward.

Dates: October 20, 1941

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 Aubrey Saili to Emilie Lawrence Reed, May 31, 1927

Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 22

Identifier: 03122033

Scope and Contents

This letter, written by a student of Edith R. Force, thanks Emilie Lawrence Reed for the life and work of Walter Reed.

Dates: May 31, 1927

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Letters from the students of Woodrow Wilson Jr. High School to Emilie Lawrence Reed

Letter from Bert W. Caldwell to Henry Rose Carter, April 6, 1922

Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 29

Identifier: 00929005

Scope and Contents

Caldwell asks Carter about the possibility of human yellow fever “carriers”, as he has had an inexplicable case of yellow fever in his district.

Dates: April 6, 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 Bert W. Caldwell to Henry Rose Carter, June 12, 1922

Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 33

Identifier: 00933007

Scope and Contents

Caldwell agrees with Carter that there are no human carriers of yellow fever. He discusses, in detail, his field work in Mexico.

Dates: June 12, 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 Bert W. Caldwell to Henry Rose Carter, August 29, 1922

Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 37

Identifier: 00937027

Scope and Contents

Caldwell replies to questions raised by Carter concerning yellow fever outbreaks in Mexico and Africa.

Dates: August 29, 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 Bert W. Caldwell to Henry Rose Carter, October 6, 1921

Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 16

Identifier: 00916001

Scope and Contents

Caldwell thanks Carter for his informative and invaluable lecture. He reports on field work, problems with local customs, and migrant workers' susceptibility to yellow fever.

Dates: October 6, 1921

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 Bertha L. Lyons to Philip Showalter Hench, May 17, 1948

Item — Box 42: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 23

Identifier: 04223024

Scope and Contents

Lyons informs Hench that she has tried to recognize Finlay as fully as possible in the Hall of Fame event, but insists that the event honors Reed, not Finlay.

Dates: May 17, 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 Blanton P. Seward to Laura Armistead Carter, November 27, 1931

Item — Box 13: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 8

Identifier: 01308008

Scope and Contents

Seward inquires about maritime quarantine regulations. He also requests information regarding Henry Carter's opinion of Strobel's, Nott's and Nelson's yellow fever work.

Dates: November 27, 1931