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Entries in Ignacio Rojas' Journal or Day Book, 1900/1940 1 page Box 36, Folder 29

Moran's translation of entries made in Rojas' journal are certified by Rojas' widow as conforming in tenor to the original.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection, 1800/1998, bulk 1863/1974
  3. Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench, 1850/1966, bulk 1837/1960
  4. Entries copied from Ignacio Rojas' daybook, 1900/1940

Letter from Laura Armistead Carter to [Frederick F. Russell], 1900/1930 1 page Box 13, Folder 12

Laura Carter informs Russell that she left the Ravenel correspondence with Read, but did not use it because her father's book ends before Reed's yellow fever work commenced.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection, 1800/1998, bulk 1863/1974
  3. Series II. Henry Rose Carter, 1880/1932, bulk 1883/1932
  4. Correspondence of Laura Armistead Carter, 1900/1930

Letter from Leonard Wood to Mabel H. Lazear, 1900 2 pages Box 3, Folder 75

Wood lauds the work that Lazear did and praises him as a martyr. Wood includes a copy of another letter he sent to the United States Army in which he advocates for a pension for Mabel H. Lazear.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection, 1800/1998, bulk 1863/1974
  3. Series I. Jesse W. Lazear, 1800/1956, bulk 1863/1943

Letter from [Louise Young Kean] and Jefferson Randolph Kean to Mrs. Mason Young, 1900 12 pages Box 143, Folder 27

The Keans discuss social events among the army personnel and a move to new quarters. The postscript mentions the reaction of the popular press and the medical journals to the mosquito theory.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection, 1800/1998, bulk 1863/1974
  3. Series XIV. P. Kahler Hench additions, 1860/1965, bulk 1898/1965

Letter from Walter Reed to Emilie Lawrence Reed, 1900 10 pages Box 22, Folder 62

This is the famous New Year's Eve letter. Reed's toothache requires cocaine treatment. Reed comments on La Roche's Yellow Fever (1853), and his own role in the historic discovery. He hears taps sound for the old year, and celebrations for New Year's Day. He requests orders to return to the United States in six weeks.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection, 1800/1998, bulk 1863/1974
  3. Series III. Walter Reed, 1806/1955, bulk 1874/1936

Model of Camp Columbia with overlay notes naming locations in the model that are pertinent to the yellow fever experiments, 1900/1950 1 page Box 63, Folder 8

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection, 1800/1998, bulk 1863/1974
  3. Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench, 1879/1960, bulk 1900/1954
  4. List of sources on microfilm selected from the National Archives by Philip Showalter for his yellow fever research with photographs, notes, and maps showing the site of Camp Lazear and the Columbia Barracks, 1941

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