Roy Dayton of Saranac Laboratory to Sumner Simpson Sending the 1938 Annual Report (1939)

A one-page letter of May 10, 1939, from Roy Dayton, secretary of the Trudeau Foundation and financial secretary of Saranac Laboratory, to Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan. Writing for Dr. Leroy U. Gardner, the laboratory's director, Dayton sent the laboratory's annual report, "which contains the paper read before the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers in February," and said he was glad to put Simpson's name on the mailing list permanently: "we are all at a loss to understand why this had not been done before."

What it shows

Simpson had asked Gardner for the report and the paper on May 5 (Simpson to Gardner), two days after Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's attorney, asked him whether Gardner's references to asbestosis in the report were proper under the industry's agreement for the Saranac asbestos experiments (Brown's letter of May 3; Simpson's reply). This letter sent the report itself (the 1938 report).

In Johns-Manville's index

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

Transmittal letter for 1938 Report of the Saranac Laboratory.

Related documents

• Saranac Laboratory, Report of the Director and Financial Report for 1938, with Reprints (1938)
• Sumner Simpson to Leroy Gardner Requesting the 1938 Saranac Report (1939)

About this copy

This is document 03668 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.