SEARCH
Back to Index
Box 030
1911-07-03 [03001001] :
View
Letter fragment to William Crawford Gorgas, July 3, 1911
Gorgas has been offered the presidency of the University of Alabama.
1911-07-27 [03001003] :
View
Letter from William Crawford Gorgas to J.H. Johnson, July 27, 1911
Gorgas declines the offer of the presidency of the University of Alabama.
1911-01-12 [03002001] :
View
Surgeon General's Office Record Card, January 12, 1911
Excerpts regard the publication of “Major Walter Reed and the Yellow Fever Commission - A Compilation.” The Smithsonian Institution requests photographs of Walter Reed. The record card is dated January 12, 1911 through September 12, 1911. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]
19**-00-00 [03003001] :
View
Notes on the Stegomyia Mosquito, [19--]
The writer believes Cuba should not be quarantined until yellow fever appears again.
19**-00-00 [03004001] :
View
Payroll notes from [Canal Zone?], [19--]
This list gives names and salaries.
1912-02-15 [03005001] :
View
Letter from Ida E. Kissinger to James E. Peabody, February 15, 1912
Ida Kissinger sends photographs for Peabody's lecture and mentions Kelly's book. The Kissingers appreciate all the help given to them. They also provide Agramonte's address in Havana.
1912-02-22 [03006001] :
View
Letter from Aristides Agramonte to Dr. Santos, February 22, 1912
Strategy in application and nomination for Nobel Prize.
1912-03-27 [03007001] :
View
Letter from Bessie C. Wratten to Emilie Lawrence Reed, March 27, 1912
Wratten informs Emilie Lawrence Reed that her husband will offer assistance with her writing.
1912-04-01 [03008001] :
View
Letter from George M. Wratten to Emilie Lawrence Reed, April 1, 1912
Wratten sends Emilie Lawrence Reed transliterations of [song?] titles.
1912-08-12 [03010001] :
View
Letter from Joseph B. Bishop to John J. Moran, August 12, 1912
Bishop requests a photograph of Moran from the yellow fever experiment years to be used in an article in Scribner's Magazine.
1912-09-25 [03011001] :
View
Letter from Caroline Latimer to [s.n.] Waterson, September 25, 1912
Latimer elaborates the differences between the first and second editions of the book: Walter Reed and Yellow Fever.
1912-09-26 [03011004] :
View
Letter from Caroline Latimer to [s.n.] Waterson, September 26, 1912
Latimer writes to Waterson regarding Kissinger's pension.
1912-12-07 [03012001] :
View
Letter from George H. Torney to the Director of the Yellow Fever Bureau, December 7, 1912
Torney reports that Agramonte has requested that a statement published in the Yellow Fever Bureau Bulletin be corrected. Torney explains how he believes the apparent injustice occurred, and requests the correction on behalf of the Office of the Surgeon General.
1912-03-27 [03013001] :
View
Surgeon General's Office Record Card, March 27, 1912
These excerpts regard the correspondence between William T. Jenkins and Jefferson Randolph Kean, and the confusion of Jenkins' mailing address. The record card is dated March 27, 1912 through April 20, 1912. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]
1912-00-00 [03014001] :
View
Article: Agreement between the History of Yellow Fever and its Transmission By the Culex Mosquito (Stegomyia of Theobald), by Carlos J. Finlay, 1912
Photostat of page 411 of Finlay's Selected Works. Included are notes by Truby.
1913-08-04 [03016001] :
View
Letter from Rupert Blue to Henry Rose Carter, August 4, 1913
Blue orders Carter to North Carolina to investigate malaria and propose control measures.
1913-01-20 [03017001] :
View
Surgeon General's Office Record Card, January 20, 1913
Excerpts from a record card pertain to the biographies of Walter Reed, as well as to the discussion of a monument to commemorate the completion of the Panama Canal that should include Walter Reed. The record card is dated from January 20, 1913 through June 28, 1913. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]
1913-00-00 [03017004] :
View
Letter from George H. Torney, [1913]
Torney wants to inspect the painting of Walter Reed when it is on exhibition in Washington, D. C. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]
1913-10-15 [03017005] :
View
Letter from Charles M. Gandy to Simon Flexner, October 15, 1913
Gandy discusses the various photographs of Walter Reed that are suitable for hanging at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]
1913-10-17 [03017008] :
View
Letter from Charles M. Gandy to Simon Flexner, October 17, 1913
Gandy informs Flexner that a negative of one of Reed's photographs is broken. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]
1914-07-14 [03019001] :
View
Memorandum of interview with William Crawford Gorgas, by Wickliffe Rose, July 14, 1914
Rose and Gorgas discuss the relative severity of ankylostomiasis and malaria in Malaya, as well as plans to eradicate yellow fever worldwide.
1914-05-13 [03020001] :
View
Union Calendar No. 297, House of Representatives 16510, May 13, 1914
This bill recognizes the services of certain military officers of the Isthmian Canal Commission.
1914-07-27 [03020005] :
View
Report No. 1022, 63rd Congress: Services of Certain Officers of the Army and Navy, July 27, 1914
This report recognizes officers whose work was instrumental in the construction of the Panama Canal.
1914-03-31 [03022001] :
View
Recollections of Yellow Fever Epidemic, by Mrs. Tyler, March 31, 1914
Tyler recounts yellow fever outbreaks.
1915-11-18 [03024001] :
View
Letter from George W. Goethals to John J. Moran, November 18, 1915
Goethals provides Moran with a transcript of Moran's service record and acknowledges his resignation from the Health Department.
1915-08-14 [03025001] :
View
Letter to Daniel Witwer Weaver, August 14, 1915
Weaver is informed of Kelly's biography of Walter Reed. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]
1915-11-26 [03025003] :
View
Letter from [William Crawford Gorgas] to N. M. Miller, November 26, 1915
Gorgas informs Miller that a painting of Walter Reed has been approved and will be hung in the Walter Reed General Hospital. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]
1915-12-04 [03025005] :
View
Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Surgeon's General's Office to N. M. Miller, [December 4], 1915
Permission is sought to photograph the painting of Walter Reed recently completed by Miller. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]
1916-02-13 [03026001] :
View
Letter from the Chief Quarantine Officer to [Rupert Blue], February 13, 1916
The Chief Quarantine Officer relates information on a case of yellow fever and notes disagreement over the diagnosis.
1916-05-09 [03028001] :
View
Letter from Aristides Agramonte to William Crawford Gorgas, May 9, 1916
Agramonte informs Gorgas that all his reports about the Yellow Fever Commission are completely accurate and can be proven, and that he believes he will never receive proper recognition for his contribution. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]
1916-06-26 [03029001] :
View
Article from Diario Illustrado regarding the American Sanitary Commission, translated from the Spanish by Juan Guiteras, June 26, 1916
This article, translated into English, addresses the involvement of the American Sanitary Commission in Central and South America, and the political ramifications of its actions.
1916-06-29 [03030001] :
View
Letter from the Secretary of War to the President of the Senate, June 29, 1916
The Commission of Fine Arts and the Chairman of the House Committee on the Library disapprove of the monument to Reed, Carroll, Lazear, and Agramonte. They suggest a memorial fountain instead. Included is a copy of Senate Bill #6067. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]
1916-09-13 [03033001] :
View
Letter from Joseph A. LePrince to J.E.S. Thorpe, September 13, 1916
Le Prince discusses the treatment of a lake shore, in North Carolina, in order to reduce the number of anopheles mosquitos.
1916-09-30 [03034001] :
View
Letter from Robert Wilson, Jr., to Hagood, Rivers, and Young, September 30, 1916
Wilson relates findings that timbering in the Little Salkehatchie did not increase prevalence of malaria.
1916-00-00 [03039001] :
View
Report: Anopheles and Malarial Fever Survey on and within (3) Miles of the Pond of Stevens Creek Dam on Savannah River, Columbia County, Georgia, by T.H.D. Griffitts, [1916]
Griffitts describes a house-to-house search to determine the number and type of mosquitoes, as well as the number of people stricken with malaria.
1917-12-15 [03040001] :
View
Report: Malaria Investigations Made during November 1916 and Subsequent Anti-Malaria Campaign, Kress, Va., April 1st, - June 30th, 1917, by Herman W. Snidow, December 15, 1917
Snidow details malaria investigations in Virginia.
1918-01-12 [03042001] :
View
Letter from W.O. Reed to Jefferson Randolph Kean, January 12, 1918
Reed informs Kean of an incident involving two privates in the ambulance service, Army Medical Corps.
1918-12-06 [03044001] :
View
Letter from Isabel Riva to R.C. Derivaux, December 6, 1918
Riva explains the difficulties of using postal cards for collecting statistical data.
1918-05-27 [03046001] :
View
Telegram from [H.P.] McCain to John J. Moran, May 27, 1918
McCain informs Moran of his appointment as captain in the Quartermaster Corps.
1918-05-27 [03046002] :
View
Special Orders No. 124 from Peyton C. March, May 27, 1918
Moran is ordered to report to New York City.
1918-05-31 [03046004] :
View
Depot Orders No. 103 from Charles Downing, May 31, 1918
Moran is assigned to the Warehousing Division.
1918-05-31 [03046005] :
View
Memorandum from L.E. Wilson, May 31, 1918
Moran is assigned to a post as assistant in Finance and Accounts.
1914-08-00 [03046006] :
View
Letter from H.O. Benson to John J. Moran, [August] 1914
Moran is ordered to report for physical examination before receiving new orders.
1918-09-14 [03046007] :
View
Depot Orders No. 468 from A.A. Stewart, September 14, 1918
Moran is granted three days leave of absence.
1918-09-14 [03046008] :
View
Depot Orders No. 580 from A.A. Stewart, September 14, 1918
Moran is assigned to the Clothing and Equipage Division.
1918-10-15 [03046009] :
View
Memorandum from C.J. Asplund to John J. Moran, October 15, 1918
Moran is nominated for overseas duty.
1918-10-26 [03046010] :
View
Telegram from [s.n.] Harris to the Depot Quartermaster, October 26, [1918]
Moran is ordered to report to Hoboken, New Jersey equipped for extended field service.
1918-11-19 [03046011] :
View
Zone Supply Orders No. 34 from A.A. Stewart, November 19, 1918
Moran is relieved of duty at the New York office.
1918-11-30 [03046012] :
View
Special Order No. 77 from James McGunnegle, November 30, 1918
Moran is ordered to Bordeaux, France.
1918-12-23 [03046013] :
View
Telegram from [s.n.] Bash to the [Commanding General?] at Bordeaux, December 23, 1918
Moran is ordered to report to Mars-sur-Allier, France for duty as a hospital disbursing officer.
1918-12-24 [03046015] :
View
Special Order No. 357 from C.W. Barber, December 24, 1918
Moran is ordered to Mars-sur-Allier, France for duty as a hospital disbursing officer.
1919-06-17 [03047001] :
View
Program from the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine, June 16 and 17, 1919
This program includes a symposium on yellow fever featuring presentations by Noguchi, Elliott, Carter, White, Pareja, Lebredo and Guiteras.
1919-07-04 [03048001] :
View
Letter from H.J. Nichols to the Members of the American Society of Tropical Medicine, July 4, 1919
Nichols encourages members to support the Society, which lapsed during the World War I.
1919-08-21 [03049001] :
View
Letter from J.A. Ulio to John J. Moran, August 21, 1919
Ulio commends Moran for his work in the Quartermaster Corps during the war.
1919-08-21 [03050001] :
View
Military Record for John J. Moran, August 21, 1919
Harold Sorenson and R.P. Harbold describe Moran's service in the army.
1919-09-03 [03051001] :
View
Letter from J.E.S. Thorpe to the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, September 3, 1919
Thorpe seeks a recommendation for the best top-minnow species to use in the Yadkin River (Badin, North Carolina) for mosquito control.
1919-09-09 [03052001] :
View
Letter from H.M. Smith to J.E.S. Thorpe, September 9, 1919
Smith recommends a species of top minnow for mosquito control, as well as useful publications dealing with mosquitos.
1919-03-08 [03054001] :
View
Military Record for John J. Moran, March 8, 1919
This record concerns Moran's assignments in France with the Quartermaster Corps, his return to the United States, and his honorable discharge.
1919-03-08 [03054022] :
View
Military Record for John J. Moran
This record concerns Moran's assignments in France with the Quartermaster Corps, his return to the United States, and his honorable discharge.
1919-10-01 [03054025] :
View
Military Orders for John J. Moran, October 1, 1919
Moran is honorable discharged from the United States Army.
1919-10-01 [03054026] :
View
Honorable Discharge Certificate for John J. Moran, October 1, 1919
This is Moran's certificate of honorable discharge from the United States Army.
1920-10-21 [03055001] :
View
Letter from T.H.D. Griffitts to Lunsford D. Fricks, October 21, 1920
Griffitts writes about the anopheles survey at Badin, North Carolina.
1920-00-00 [03056001] :
View
Biography: George M. Sternberg, by Martha L. Sternberg, 1920
This document includes excerpts from Sternberg's biography of her husband's involvement with tropical diseases, including yellow fever.
1921-02-07 [03057001] :
View
Letter from Ronald Ross to Henry Young & Sons, February 7, 1921
Ross sends a photograph of himself for Kelly. He provides a journal reference for his work on malaria.
1921-05-29 [03058001] :
View
Letter from Wenceslao Pareja to Wickliffe Rose, May 29, 1921
Pareja, in this letter translated from Spanish to English, writes to Rose regarding his appointment as Director of Health. He details efforts taken to eliminate yellow fever.
1921-02-09 [03059001] :
View
Telegram from Wickliffe Rose to Henry Rose Carter, February 9, 1921
Rose informs Carter that some of Noguchi's vaccine has been shipped to Peru.
1921-01-16 [03059003] :
View
Translation [from Spanish] of telegram from Henry Rose Carter to J. Gil Cardenas, January 16, 1921
Carter offers to go to Ferrenafe.
1921-02-16 [03059004] :
View
Telegram from Wickliffe Rose to Henry Rose Carter, February 16, 1921
Rose requests information on the yellow fever situation. He offers his assistance.
1921-03-28 [03059006] :
View
Letter to Henry Hanson, March 28, 1921
The writer acknowledges Hanson's cable describing yellow fever outbreaks in Peru.
1921-04-05 [03059008] :
View
Letter from Henry Hanson to Wickliffe Rose, April 5, 1921
Hanson discusses outbreaks of yellow fever in Peru, and his dealings with the Peruvian government. He requests the use of International Health Board funding.
1921-04-24 [03059013] :
View
Letter from Henry Hanson to Wickliffe Rose, April 24, 1921
Hanson discusses a yellow fever outbreak on the frontier of Peru. He states that yellow fever cases are declining elsewhere.
1921-04-29 [03059015] :
View
Letter from Henry Hanson to Wickliffe Rose, April 29, 1921
Hanson discusses funding issues and a recent yellow fever outbreak.
1921-05-06 [03059021] :
View
Letter from Henry Hanson to Wickliffe Rose, May 6, 1921
Hanson discusses the spread of yellow fever in Peru, and the use of fish to control mosquitoes. He also discusses funding issues.
1921-05-06 [03059024] :
View
Letter from Wickliffe Rose to Henry Hanson, May 6, 1921
Rose grants Hanson's request for trained sanitary inspectors. He expects cooperation with the French Army Medical Corps. He encloses an account sheet detailing conversion of currency.
1921-05-15 [03059028] :
View
Letter from Henry Hanson to Wickliffe Rose, May 15, 1921
Hanson discusses financial affairs and describes various yellow fever cases.
1921-05-18 [03059037] :
View
Letter from Henry Hanson to Direccion de Salubridad, May 18, 1921
Hanson requests an increase of funds. He discusses his dealings with local authorities and steamship companies.
1921-06-18 [03059040] :
View
Letter from Henry Hanson to Wickliffe Rose, June 18, 1921
Hanson discusses funding and reports on yellow fever cases. He requests more inspectors.
1921-11-02 [03059045] :
View
Letter from Henry Hanson to Wickliffe Rose, November 2, 1921
Hanson discusses funding and the use of fish in breeding areas. He lists the people in charge of various locations, and has hopes of soon eliminating yellow fever on the coast.
19**-00-00 [03059052] :
View
Report: Estimate for the Financial Participation of the International Health Board in the Yellow Fever Campaign in Peru, by Henry Hanson, [19--]
Hanson estimates funding needed from the International Health Board for the Peruvian yellow fever campaign, with the employees and salaries for the different locations listed.
1921-00-00 [03059055] :
View
Presupuesto Que Corresponde al Gobierno de los Gastos para la Campan a Sanitaria Contra la Fiebre Amarilla en el Departmento de Libertad, by Henry Hanson [in Spanish], [1921?]
This is an estimated budget for the sanitation campaign to eliminate yellow fever, prepared by Henry Hanson, the Director of the Sanitation Campaign. [in Spanish]
1921-03-30 [03060001] :
View
Letter from Henry Hanson to the Director of Public Health, March 30, 1921
Hanson writes about the inappropriate handling of vaccine.
1921-08-13 [03060002] :
View
Letter from John P. Corrigan to Henry Hanson, August 13, 1921
Corrigan describes inspections of various Peruvian sites for yellow fever eradication.
1921-09-05 [03060005] :
View
Cablegram from Henry Hanson to the International Health Board, September 5, 1921
This is a cablegram with a translated cipher. It concerns funding for health inspectors in the Panama Canal Zone.
1921-08-23 [03060006] :
View
Letter from John P. Corrigan to Henry Hanson, August 23, 1921
Corrigan relates the results of mosquito control inspections on farms.
1922-02-21 [03061001] :
View
Letter from Henry Hanson to Florence M. Read, February 21, 1922
Hanson describes the work of the sanitary campaign against yellow fever in Peru, naming physicians and surveyors.
1922-05-09 [03062001] :
View
Letter from H. McG. Robertson to Hugh S. Cumming, May 9, 1922
Robertson proposes a study of fleas and bubonic plague in Boston, Philadelphia or Baltimore, Savannah, and New Orleans.
1922-06-24 [03063001] :
View
Letter from Henry Rose Carter to Philip A. Bruce, June 24, 1922
Carter offers a correction to Bruce's “History of the University of Virginia.“
1922-10-07 [03063002] :
View
Letter from Howard A. Kelly to William H. Welch, October 7, 1922
Kelly solicits corrections or clarifications for a new edition of his book, “Walter Reed and Yellow Fever.“
1922-10-12 [03063004] :
View
Letter from [Howard A. Kelly] to the Superintendent of the Walter Reed Hospital, October 12, 1922
[Kelly] solicits corrections and clarifications for a new edition of his book, “Walter Reed and Yellow Fever.“
1922-10-13 [03063005] :
View
Letter from [Howard A. Kelly] to Caroline Latimer, October 13, 1922
[Kelly] requests information on Emilie Lawrence Reed.
1922-10-13 [03063006] :
View
Letter from [Howard A. Kelly] to Robert E. Noble, October 13, 1922
[Kelly] requests information for a new edition of his book, “Walter Reed and Yellow Fever.“
1922-10-17 [03063007] :
View
Letter from Caroline Latimer to Howard A. Kelly, October 17, 1922
Latimer believes that Emilie Lawrence Reed did not support Walter Reed's work in Cuba.
1922-10-17 [03063009] :
View
Letter from Howard A. Kelly's [secretary?] to Robert E. Noble, October 17, 1922
Kelly's [secretary?] desires to know if a biography of Gorgas has been published.
1922-10-21 [03063010] :
View
Letter from Walter D. McCaw to Howard A. Kelly, October 21, 1922
McCaw writes about memorials to Walter Reed, including the U.S. Army hospital in Washington, D.C.
1922-10-24 [03063012] :
View
Letter from A.N. Tasker to Howard A. Kelly, October 24, 1922
Tasker relates a conversation with Emilie Lawrence Reed. He provides information on Clara Maass, and gives permission to use a photograph of a portrait of George M. Sternberg.
1922-10-25 [03063014] :
View
Letter from [Howard A. Kelly] to A.N. Tasker, October 25, 1922
[Kelly] thanks Tasker for supplying information for his book.
1922-10-25 [03063015] :
View
Letter from [Howard A. Kelly] to W.W. Norman, October 25, 1922
[Kelly] requests official confirmation of the changes to be made in the new edition of “Walter Reed and Yellow Fever.“
19**-11-01 [03063016] :
View
Letter from William H. Welch to Howard A. Kelly, November 1, [19--]
Welch writes about the mosquito theory of yellow fever transmission and the Yellow Fever Commission.
1922-11-04 [03063019] :
View
Letter from W.W. Norman to Howard A. Kelly, November 4, 1922
Norman writes regarding changes proposed for “Walter Reed and Yellow Fever.“
1922-11-06 [03063020] :
View
Letter from [Howard A. Kelly] to W.W. Norman, November 6, 1922
[Kelly] agrees to Norman's suggested changes to the new edition of “Walter Reed and Yellow Fever.“
1922-10-24 [03063021] :
View
Letter from W.W. Norman to Howard A. Kelly, October 24, 1922
Norman details the cost of Kelly's revisions to his book.
1922-09-17 [03063022] :
View
Article: Yellow Fever, in the [Journal of the American Medical Association], September 17, 1922
The Mexico City correspondent comments on new yellow fever cases.
1922-09-09 [03063023] :
View
Letter from the Canal Zone Chief Health Officer to the Editors, Journal of the American Medical Association, September 9, 1922
In this editorial the Canal Zone Chief Health Officer discusses malaria and public health efforts in Panama.
1925-03-00 [03064001] :
View
Book Review: William Crawford Gorgas, His Life and Work, by the Editor of the The Military Surgeon, March 1925
This editorial concerns Marie Gorgas' biography of her husband. The editor comments on the claims made concerning Gorgas' yellow fever work.
1925-00-00 [03065001] :
View
Book Review: William Crawford Gorgas, His Life and Times, in The Panama Times, [1925]
This review, by an unnamed critic, concentrates on the claims surrounding Gorgas' yellow fever work.
1925-05-09 [03065002] :
View
Book Review: William Crawford Gorgas, His Life and Work, by Mazyck P. Ravenel, May 9, 1925
This review, which appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association, is critical of some of the accomplishments attributed to William Crawford Gorgas by Marie Gorgas and Hendrick.
© 2004, Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia