E. H. Jeffords to Sumner Simpson on the Dust Settling Chamber and Arkwright Correspondence (1935)

A one-page letter of August 12, 1935, from E. H. Jeffords of Raybestos-Manhattan's General Asbestos & Rubber Division at North Charleston, South Carolina, to Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan, headed "Dust Settling Chamber." Jeffords enclosed copies of Carl G. Richmond's August 10 letter, E. E. Crandall's August 9 report on the combustibility of the dust, and a blueprint showing the bracing of the planned roof tunnel. He said the company was only seeking approval for the tunnel and would not build it until it knew "whether the burlap baffles will prove satisfactory," and that the burlap had arrived and the new system should be cut in early the next week.

In Johns-Manville's index

Johns-Manville's attorneys indexed the Sumner Simpson Papers. Their index describes this document as follows:

Transmittal of various pieces of correspondence re: Arkwright Mutual Fire Insurance. Construction on tunnel will not be started till it is proven that the burlap baffles will work. Burlap baffle system should be completed next week.

Related documents

• Carl G. Richmond of Arkwright Mutual to E. H. Jeffords with the Fire Test Report on the Asbestos-Cotton Dust (1935)
• E. H. Jeffords to Sumner Simpson on Progress of the North Charleston Dust Collecting System (1935)
• E. H. Jeffords to Carl G. Richmond of Arkwright Mutual Sending the Dust Tunnel Blueprint (1935)

About this copy

This is document 02505-02507 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.