Charles P. Wertenbaker Letterbooks 1889-1913

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
170 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Special Collections Public Services & Reference Staff
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Restrictions:

Collection is open to research.

Terms of access:

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred citation:

Charles P. Wertenbaker Letterbooks, Accession 3619, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Summary

Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Charles P. Wertenbaker Letterbooks, Accession 3619, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Background

Scope and content:

The six letterbooks of Dr. Charles P. Wertenbakerin this collection contain approximately nine hundred items of correspondence, 1889-1913, while Wertenbaker was Medical Officer in Command of the United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, based in Wilmington, North Carolinaand Norfolk, Virginia, and concern his efforts in combatting yellow fever, small pox, and tuberculosis, and in improving general sanitation practices in the South. Included in some of the letterbooks, primarily as loose papers, are clippings, reports, speeches, and articles.

Among the correspondents are Surgeon-General Walter Wyman; Truman A. Parker, Executive Secretary of the Virginia Anti-Tuberculosis Association; Livingston Farrand, Executive Secretary of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis; Ennion G. Williams, Virginia Commissioner of Health; Franklin A. Samsof the Marine Hospital Service; Charles A. Phippsof the University of Pennsylvania; James B. Dudleyof the North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical College; William S. Doddand Hollis B. Frissellof Hampton Institute; Morgan E. Morrisof Lincoln University; N. B. Youngof the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College; and R. A. Hubbard, Vice-president of North Carolina Mutual and Provident Society.

Acquisition information:
The letterbooks were a gift of Mrs. John Flynn on November 10, 1950.
Processing information:

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Physical location:
Physical description:
ca. 900 items