Sumner Simpson to Dr. Alfred Kornblut Asking His Opinion of the Saranac Experiments (1940)

A one-page letter of January 22, 1940, from Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan, to Dr. Alfred Kornblut, a Bridgeport, Connecticut, physician. Kornblut had been speaking to Miss Garvey (Simpson's secretary) "about the dust experiments being carried on by Dr. Gardner of the Saranac Laboratory." Simpson asked for "a written report from you as to your opinion of the value of this work, and also what you think should be done to carry on further experiments in the interest of the asbestos industry."

What it shows

Simpson wrote the week after agreeing to raise Raybestos-Manhattan's payment toward Leroy Gardner's experiments for 1940. He asked a local doctor for an outside opinion on whether the work was worth it. Kornblut's answer of January 25 said further grants would be "of no practical value to the industry."

In Johns-Manville's index

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

Requests written opinion on value of work by Saranac Lab and opinions on what further experiments should be carried out in the interest of the asbestos industry.

Related documents

• Sumner Simpson to Vandiver Brown Agreeing to Pay $1,000 for Gardner's 1940 Experiments (1940)

About this copy

This is document 04351 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.