Kean talks about his recent retirement from the U. S. Army. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Sullivan wants Wood to make corrections to his manuscript on the history of the United States, in particular with any reference he makes to William Crawford Gorgas. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Wood sends his memorandum of the Sullivan manuscript to Kean for corrections. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Wood asks Kean to check over his memorandum regarding yellow fever in Cuba for any errors or inaccuracies. Wood wants to make sure proper credit is given to Havard and Kean for their work in Havana, Cuba. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Kean informs Wood that he has read Sullivan's manuscript and Wood's memorandum regarding the work of Gorgas in Cuba. Kean still believes that Wood was responsible for pushing Gorgas into accepting the mosquito theory. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Sullivan thanks Kean for all the corrections he supplied for his book on the recent history (1900-1925) of the United States, especially with his chapter on William Crawford Gorgas. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Kean gives an account of Wood's military accomplishments. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

[Kean's] speech, delivered at Belroi, praises the achievements of Reed and the Reed Commission. [Kean] also discusses the sanitary efforts achieved by Gorgas in eradicating yellow fever. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Agramonte mentions how he enjoyed reading Kean's address for the opening of Belroi and requests a photograph of Reed's birthplace to hang in his office. He informs Kean of honors he received at a meeting in New Orleans. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Kean sends Agramonte a photograph of Reed's birthplace and tells him that prior to Reed's birth his parent's home burned down. Kean congratulates Agramonte on the honors he received at a meeting in New Orleans. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

This document recounts the speech given by Kean at the dedication of Belroi, the birthplace of Walter Reed. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Reed informs [Kean] that she recollects her husband working with a microscope in the winter of 1890-91. She also expounds on the beauty of her garden. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Vaughan and Reed submit a report about their examination of three crematories at Washington Barracks. They ascertain that none of the models submitted by inventors meet all the conditions required by the Army. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

The writer gives a yellow fever case history, among others now lost.

Lazear reports on medical cases suspected of being yellow fever in Havana. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Michie is pleased Kean is doing well and provides him with details of camp life in Havana. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Michie plans on ordering cocktails and drinking to Kean's health. He also mentions a formaldehyde machine left running in a room that prevented anyone from being able to sleep in it. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Stark reprimands Godfrey for his course of action in the face of an epidemic of yellow fever. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

This document lists the names of the volunteers for the fomite experiments along with what soiled clothing and bedding they were given. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Woldert suggests allowing tobacco to macerate in kerosene oil as a means to kill mosquito larvae quicker and in a more dilute solution than plain oil. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

This document lists the enlisted men involved in the yellow fever experiments and their rate of pay per day. It also lists the men that were paid $100 and $200 for volunteering. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Taft is anxious for Finlay to work with Jefferson Randolph Kean on stamping out yellow fever in Cuba. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Ireland requests that Kean inform Valery Havard of yellow fever cases in Havana. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Mason refutes the assertion that he used mosquitoes sent by Ames in his experiments, and that the mosquitoes Ames did send were worthless specimens. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

This letter to Kean regards a variety of matters: 1) an additional case of yellow fever; 2) the acceptance by Dr. O'Bourke of an agreement regarding the Diagnosis Board; 3) an agreement by the author to report often; 4) personnel; 5) assurances by the author that he would keep the official objectives of the projects as a first priority, despite differences, and 6) the case of Rogelio Castro Rey. [In Spanish] [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

The author gives a status report on the work being carried out in Havana. He reports that homes have been fumigated, and an inn fined for a violation of sanitation ordinances. He laments the lack of resources available to complete projects and comments on the poor quality of materials. Finally, he reports a work-related injury.[In Spanish] [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

O'Reilly relays that no harm could result from delaying the date of the imposition of quarantine against Cuba. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

In this sworn statement, Agramonte details the Board's work on yellow fever. Agramonte asserts he began to discuss mosquito transmission in June 1900. A month later, the Board seriously began to consider mosquito agency and the Board then began its mosquito research. Lazear, because of his training in mosquito work, assumed leadership in the mosquito testing. Following Lazear's death, Agramonte carried out the breeding and infecting of mosquitoes. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Guiteras is thankful for the opportunity to study Kean's office records. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

The report concludes that improved sanitation efforts between 1906 and 1909 left Cuba entirely free of yellow fever. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Kean states that Reed's name should have appeared in the newspaper's article about yellow fever and briefly discusses Reed's and his assistant's work in conquering yellow fever. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Baekland acknowledges Kean's work in the warfare against the mosquito in Cuba. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Baekeland asks permission to write a letter to the New York Times. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Howard informs Kean of Baekeland's letter to the New York Times Editor and encloses copies of correspondence relating to that letter. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Howard requests that Baekeland does not submit his letter to the editor in its current form. He does not want to be involved in the controversy. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Kean is grateful for Baekeland's letter but agrees with Howard that it is an inopportune time to write such a letter. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Kean's letter to the editor was written in response to an appeal by Emily Lawrence Reed to protect her husband's reputation. More importantly, Kean desires to induce Congress to make a more liberal pension for Reed. Kean does not want Baekeland's letter to distract the public's attention from Walter Reed. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Baekeland will do as Kean suggests. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Howard finds the whole exchange between Baekeland and Kean to be an interesting incident in unpublished history. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Kean is critical of the book written by Marie D. Gorgas because of its scientific and historical inaccuracies. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Carter appreciates Kean's review of the biography of Gorgas, but has no knowledge to support Kean's points since he was not in Havana during Reed's investigation. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Havard recalls Gorgas' hesitance in accepting the conclusions of the Reed commission and his continuance of the expensive disinfection of fomites. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Walker supplies the addresses of Mabel H. Lazear and Jennie Carroll. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Kean discusses the roles of Reed, Carroll, and Noguchi, in investigating yellow fever. Kean supports Wood's assessment that Reed was the guiding and controlling mind behind the experiments, and the others were mere assistants. Kean states that new evidence shows Noguchi never cultivated the yellow fever organism.

Kean discovers in his diaries that Porter, at a Pan American Sanitary Congress, cast a dissenting vote against the statement that the stegomyia fasciata was the only known cause of yellow fever.[Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Kean is anxious for the Cubans to recognize that they don't want to steal any credit from Finlay, but that it was Reed who converted a discredited theory into an established doctrine. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Agramonte confidentially tells Kean of his and Noguchi's scientific disagreements. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Russell is interested in Truby writing his recollections about Reed and the yellow fever investigations. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Kean mentions that his speech at the dedication of Walter Reed's birthplace was well received. He also mentions his distrust of Noguchi's experiments. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Kean supports offering pensions for those who took part in the Reed Yellow Fever demonstration, and for the widows of those who died. He also supports a pension for Agramonte for his important contribution to the Board. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Kean corrects an error in a Post editorial stating that an American scientist found the yellow fever germ. Kean points out that Reed demonstrated that yellow fever was spread by a particular variety of mosquito. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Carter informs Kean of Henry Rose Carter's dates of service in Cuba. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Kean proposes that the Indiana Board of Health pay tribute to all those named in the Yellow Fever Roll of Honor, instead of just singling out Kissinger. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Report recognizes the public service rendered by Walter Reed and those associated with him in the discovery of the cause and means of transmission of yellow fever. It also contains a statement regarding the pensions being provided to persons named in the bill, in particular widows, Agramonte, and the yellow fever volunteers. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

This document lists individuals involved in the yellow fever experiments. [Kean] inserts handwritten corrections to the document. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

England compiles a list of medical officers on duty at Camp Columbia and places check marks by the names of individuals he is certain were involved with yellow fever. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

In this handwritten draft, [Kean] states that an introductory paragraph should be inserted before listing the Yellow Fever Roll of Honor in the Army Register. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Kean corrects a mistake made in the spelling of Andrus's name. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Kean suggests changing the inscription on the reverse side of the “Conquest of Yellow Fever ” medal. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

This script briefly covers major historical accounts of yellow fever including stories of the Flying Dutchman, the Philadelphia epidemic, and the building of the Panama Canal. The document also addresses the heroic experiments performed on human volunteers to discover that mosquitoes transmitted yellow fever. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Love thanks Kean for Hench's article and a photograph of the Cornwell painting. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Smith congratulates Kean on receiving the Gorgas medal and recalls the day in December 1934 when the commission met in St. Louis and visited historical landmarks. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

Kean finds Roper's book admirable, in substance and in literary style. He mentions that her dramatic style of writing has caused her to rely heavily on her imagination. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

This document covers the accomplishments of the Army Medical Corps, including the conquest of yellow fever. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

In this pamphlet published for the American Museum of Natural History, Peabody discusses the history of yellow fever, the yellow fever experiments in Cuba, and the later history of the yellow fever heroes of 1900. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

The Office of the Surgeon General lists the individuals on the yellow fever roll of honor. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

This document gives a brief and concise history of the places, the death toll, and the cost of yellow fever epidemics in the United States. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

The Indianapolis Medical Society and the Woman's Auxiliary send invitations to a dinner celebrating the life of Kissinger. The program includes a speech given by Ireland. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]

This pamphlet describes the yellow fever experiments as one of the greatest detective stories of all time. The villain of yellow fever was the mosquito and fomites were proven innocent. The term, executing the sentence, is used to describe the campaign to rid Cuba of mosquitoes. [Courtesy of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library]