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Efficiency report for Walter Reed  August 4, 1899 Box 19, Folder 48

Reed's efficiency report is for the year 1899. Included is a report that gives an account of Reed's services from November 1, 1898 to May 10, 1899. He is noted to be an expert pathologist and bacteriologist. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

  1. University of Virginia, Health Sciences Library
  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection circa 1800-circa 1998 bulk 1863-1974
  3. Series III. Walter Reed 1806-circa 1955 bulk 1874-1936
  4. Military records relating to Walter Reed 1899

Efficiency report for Walter Reed  December 19, 1891 3 pages Box 18, Folder 3

In these efficiency reports Reed summarizes his studies at Johns Hopkins University, and Sutherland declares Reed's record excellent and states that he is fit for duty. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

  1. University of Virginia, Health Sciences Library
  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection circa 1800-circa 1998 bulk 1863-1974
  3. Series III. Walter Reed 1806-circa 1955 bulk 1874-1936
  4. Military records relating to Walter Reed 1891

Letter fragment from [Walter Reed] to [Dorsey M. McPherson]  circa 1880 2 pages Box 17, Folder 75

Reed teases McPherson and writes that he cannot take more leave to be McPherson's best man. Reed will travel to Warrenton, Virginia and to White Sulphur Springs.

  1. University of Virginia, Health Sciences Library
  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection circa 1800-circa 1998 bulk 1863-1974
  3. Series III. Walter Reed 1806-circa 1955 bulk 1874-1936

Letter fragment from Walter Reed to Emilie Lawrence Reed July 21  July 21, 1879 14 pages Box 17, Folder 49

Reed writes about finances, promising to send money to her. She wants him to get an eastern assignment. He gives news about acquaintances.

  1. University of Virginia, Health Sciences Library
  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection circa 1800-circa 1998 bulk 1863-1974
  3. Series III. Walter Reed 1806-circa 1955 bulk 1874-1936

Letter fragment from Walter Reed to Emilie Lawrence Reed  July 9, 1879 14 pages Box 17, Folder 48

Reed describes a Native American at the fort, as well as his house and garden. Life on the base is dull, so he anticipates a new home with his wife and son.

  1. University of Virginia, Health Sciences Library
  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection circa 1800-circa 1998 bulk 1863-1974
  3. Series III. Walter Reed 1806-circa 1955 bulk 1874-1936

Letter from Walter Reed to C. H. Crane  February 18, 1875 1 page Box 16, Folder 74

Reed declines an appointment as Acting Assistant Surgeon, United States Army. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

  1. University of Virginia, Health Sciences Library
  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection circa 1800-circa 1998 bulk 1863-1974
  3. Series III. Walter Reed 1806-circa 1955 bulk 1874-1936
  4. Certification of Walter Reed's passing of army examinations and his appointment as assistant surgeon July 10, 1880

Letter from Walter Reed to C. H. Crane  November 10, 1882 4 pages Box 17, Folder 79

Reed requests that his orders be ready for him by November 14, 1882. A note from the Surgeon General encourages speedy processing of the request. The resulting orders re-assign Reed from the Department of the East to the Department of the Platte.

  1. University of Virginia, Health Sciences Library
  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection circa 1800-circa 1998 bulk 1863-1974
  3. Series III. Walter Reed 1806-circa 1955 bulk 1874-1936
  4. Military records relating to Walter Reed 1882

Letter from Walter Reed to Christopher Reed  circa August 30, 1900 4 pages Box 140, Folder 16

Reed writes that Christopher Reed's son does not have tuberculosis. Reed has been in Cuba studying yellow fever but has returned to finish the typhoid fever report.

  1. University of Virginia, Health Sciences Library
  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection circa 1800-circa 1998 bulk 1863-1974
  3. Series XIII. Reed family additions circa 1850-1967 bulk 1868-1949

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