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An eight-page file: a one-page letter of December 26, 1939, from Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's attorney, to Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan, with a copy of Leroy Gardner's "Interim Report" on the asbestos dust experiments he had been conducting "during the past three years with the assistance of your company." Brown points out that the experiments were not complete and that "an additional sum of $5,000 will be required to finish them," and asks for Raybestos-Manhattan's position on continuing the work and sharing its cost for another year.
- Author
- Vandiver Brown
- Sent to
- Sumner Simpson
- Published by
- Johns-Manville
- Date
- December 26, 1939
- Number
- Bates CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-000456–000463
- Library no.
- ACL Doc 11952 · asbestosclaims.law/library/11952
- Rights
- Republished under fair use for research and historical study.
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What it shows
Brown quotes Gardner's covering letter: "I sincerely trust that the companies who have sponsored this work may feel disposed to help us to finish it." The letter shows J-M's attorney coordinating the industry's funding of the Saranac research and the companies deciding together whether it would go on (the interim report).
In Johns-Manville's chronology
Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows:
letter from Brown to Simpson enclosing Saranac Interim Report on asbestosis
Related documents
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- Asbestos Timeline
- Dr. Leroy U. Gardner to Sumner Simpson Thanking Him for Backing Another Year of Experiments (1940)
- Leroy Gardner, Interim Report on Experimental Asbestosis at the Saranac Laboratory (1939)
- Sumner Simpson to O. H. Cilley Sending Gardner's Interim Report (1940)
- Sumner Simpson to Vandiver Brown Agreeing to Fund Gardner's Experiments for One More Year (1939)
- The Johns-Manville Knowledge Chronology
- The Sumner Simpson Papers
- Vandiver Brown to George S. Fabel on Southern Asbestos Staying in the Saranac Experiments (1940)
- Vandiver Brown to Leroy U. Gardner Acknowledging the Interim Report on Experimental Asbestosis (1939)
- Vandiver Brown to Sumner Simpson Enclosing Leroy Gardner's Letter on the Asbestos Dust Experiments (1939)
- Vandiver Brown to Sumner Simpson on Dr. Gardner's Asbestos Dust Experiments (1937–1940)
- Vandiver Brown to Sumner Simpson with Dr. Lanza's Comments on Gardner's Interim Report (1940)
- W. H. Dunn to M. N. Garvey on Continuing the Arrangement with Dr. Gardner (1940)
Cite this document
“Vandiver Brown to Sumner Simpson Enclosing Gardner's Interim Report.” December 26, 1939. Bates CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-000456–000463. Johns-Manville. AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 11952. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/11952.
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