Vandiver Brown to Walter S. Paine of Aetna on a Transite Department Visit (1939)

A one-page letter of October 6, 1939, from Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's attorney, to Walter S. Paine of the Aetna Casualty & Surety Company in Hartford. Paine had made "a tour of inspection" with C. C. Taliaferro of J-M's Transite Walls Department the day before without stopping to see Brown. Brown jokes that if Paine visits next time, "I will abstain from any sales talk and raise no 'dusty' problems."

In Johns-Manville's chronology

Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows:

In a letter to Walter S. Paine (Aetna), 10/6/39, Vandiver Brown expresses disappointment that Paine did not stop and visit while Paine was inspecting J-M's Transite Walls Department. "In the hope that there may be no repetition of this neglect on your part, I hereby promise I will abstain from any sales talk and raise no 'dusty' problems should you find time to pay me a visit on the next occasion you are in the city".