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Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to Philip Showalter Hench, November 14, 1949 | |
 | yf Your letter of the 10th came |
 | 2 and was treated with much courtesy- To her amazement there were no diaries for those two years 1900 and 1901- Why this was she does not know- But there was a great mass of corres- pondence with many letters from distinguished persons- She has put in a blue pasteboard box every letter and paper which had refer- ence to Yellow Fever or which she thought would be of interest to you- I told her that your interest was very broad and took in many questions and she did not indicate that she had any desire to limit your inves- tigation- I told her that I thought, for one thing, you wanted to know whether Gen. Wood initiated the warfare against mosquitoes or whether it came from Gorgas- I knew that Gen. Wood |
 | 3- accepted Reed's confirmation of the Finlay theory that Y. F. was mosquito born and that Gorgas told me in Jan. 1901 that he believed that Reed has succeed- ed in transferring the disease in that way but he did not believe that it was the only way- or even the usual way- Gen. McCoy agrees with me that Gen. Wood directed the mosquito warfare in Havana and Major Gorgas / as he was then was the man to carry it out, being Health Officer of the City, (but not of the Province of Havana)- made a good job- well Luicita has become so interested that she says she is coming down to live in Washington near the Library and will spend her days there on her father's records- She has a good color and is looking I think very well. |
 | She talks well and does not look like an invalid, tho. she has a compan- ion who is also a nurse, I think, when she needs it- I am much pleased to know that your Affectionately your old friend |