Sumner Simpson to H. A. Gillies of American Brakeblok Sending the Saranac Agreement (1937)

A short letter of January 29, 1937, from Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan, to H. A. Gillies of the American Brake Block Company (American Brakeblok Corporation) in Detroit, enclosing the Memorandum of Agreement with Dr. Gardner for signature. Simpson suggested the company come under "the same category as Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.; i.e. $250.00 per annum for three years," and added that "Dr. Gardner's laboratory has started work." A handwritten note sends a copy to Vandiver Brown.

In Johns-Manville's index

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

Transmittal letter for Memorandum of Agreement for Saranac Study. Informs it will cost company $250 per year to join in study. Request memorandum be signed and returned as soon as possible.

Related documents

• Sumner Simpson to Vandiver Brown on the Last Signatures to the Saranac Agreement (1937)
• Sumner Simpson to L. J. Silverman Accepting Union Asbestos's $250 Share (1937)
• Asbestos Companies' Memorandum of Agreement to Underwrite Gardner's Dust Experiments (1936)
• W. A. Blume of American Brakeblok to Sumner Simpson Signing the Saranac Agreement at $250 a Year (1937)

About this copy

This is document 03182 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.