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Letter from Albert E. Truby to Jefferson Randolph Kean 4 pages Box 62, Folder 79

Truby provides his recollections of the yellow fever experiments, including Lazear's infection, Carroll's and Agramonte's claims, Dean's infection, Kean's leadership, and the memorial plaque for Lazear at Las Animas Hospital.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection
  3. Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench
  4. Correspondence of Albert E. Truby and Jefferson Randolph Kean

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to Albert E. Truby 4 pages Box 62, Folder 79

Kean inquires about Truby's recollections of the circumstances of Lazear's contraction of yellow fever. He informs Truby that the Cubans intended to memorialize the room at Las Animas where Lazear was said to have been bitten. Kean informed them that this was not true.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection
  3. Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench
  4. Correspondence of Albert E. Truby and Jefferson Randolph Kean

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to Albert E. Truby 8 pages Box 62, Folder 79

Kean discusses the unjustified claims in the Gorgas biography by Burton Hendrick and Marie Gorgas, relates news of an old acquaintance and of his health, and expresses his sympathy for Cuban sensitivity about Finlay.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection
  3. Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench
  4. Correspondence of Albert E. Truby and Jefferson Randolph Kean

Life and Letters of Walter Reed, by Blossom [Emilie M.] Reed 44 pages Box 49, Folder 34

Reed reminisces about her father and includes letters written by her father to her mother. [Hench] notes inconsistencies with her transcriptions and the originals in the margins.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection
  3. Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench
  4. Drafts ofLife and Letters of Walter Reed, by Blossom [Emilie M.] Reed with related correspondence

Report:Experiences with the Yellow Fever Commission in Cuba 1900, by John R. Kissinger 15 pages Box 59, Folder 11

Kissinger describes the yellow fever experiments and comments on the men involved. He also describes the experience of suffering from yellow fever and the treatment for the disease. Kissinger remarks on inaccuracies in the play "Yellow Jack." He maintains that he volunteered before Moran.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection
  3. Series VI. Alphabetical files
  4. Experiences with the Yellow Fever Commission in Cuba 1900, by John R. Kissinger with related notes from Kissinger

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