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Kean writes about his return to Cuba after a trip to the United States. Louise Kean has been active in charitable work around the Camp.

Kean encourages Reed to lobby for the office of Surgeon General.

Kean offers Reed continued encouragement and strategy for the Surgeon General's post.

Lawrence Reed responds to family news. His friend Cooke visits Washington.

Louise Kean writes that Jefferson Randolph Kean is in Washington, D.C. for his promotion exam. She mentions that Ames has contracted yellow fever and that she attended a memorial service for Queen Victoria.

Louise Kean writes about the use of fumigation against yellow fever, the quarantine in New Orleans, and Jefferson Randolph Kean being placed in charge of the finances for the Yellow Fever Commission.

Louise Kean writes about the Keans' travels, her daughter's ear infections, and a case of experimental yellow fever.

Bishop requests, on behalf of Victor C. Vaughan, that Walter Reed be detailed to attend a medical conference at Ann Arbor, Michigan in order to present a paper on his yellow fever research. A copy of Vaughan's letter of October 23, 1901 is enclosed. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Smith requests, on Victor C. Vaughan's behalf, that Root detail Walter Reed to attend a medical conference at Ann Arbor, Michigan in order to present a paper on his work with yellow fever. He encloses a copy of Victor C. Vaughan's letter of October 21, 1901. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Sparkman requests fifteen to twenty copies of "The Etiology of Yellow Fever" from Sternberg.