Leroy Gardner to Vandiver Brown Accepting the Terms of the Saranac Asbestos Experiments (1936)

A two-page letter of November 23, 1936, from Dr. Leroy U. Gardner, director of the Saranac Laboratory, to Vandiver Brown of Johns-Manville, answering Brown's letter of November 20. Gardner acknowledged the authorization "with satisfaction" and confirmed the cost of $5,000 a year for three years. "The Saranac Laboratory agrees that the results of these studies shall become the property of the contributors and that the manuscripts of any reports shall be submitted for approval of the contributors before publication." He was ready to start work.

What it shows

Gardner recommended using pure Canadian asbestos fiber with little serpentine rock, since the "Kings Floats" used in his first experiment had held too much non-fibrous rock dust. He asked the companies to supply the fiber ground as fine as possible. With this letter, Leroy Gardner put in writing that the sponsors could review his reports before they were published.

In Johns-Manville's index

Johns-Manville's legal department indexed the Motley 1,000 in 1984. Its index describes this document as follows:

Dr. L. U. Gardner letter to V. Brown, 11/23/36, acknowledging receipt of Motley Document #215 and announcing that Saranac is ready to start asbestos dust experiments.

Related documents

• Vandiver Brown to Leroy Gardner Authorizing the Saranac Asbestos Experiments (1936)
• Asbestos Companies' Memorandum of Agreement to Underwrite Gardner's Dust Experiments (1936)
• Memorandum of Agreement Funding Gardner's Asbestos Experiments at Saranac Laboratory (1936)

About this copy

This is document 228 of the Motley 1,000, from the set the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust's records facility certified as true copies, pages CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-001324 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-001325.