Sumner Simpson to Thomas W. Scott of Metropolitan Life on the Plant Survey's Travel Expenses (1940)

A one-page letter of January 10, 1940, from Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan, to Thomas W. Scott, a manager at the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in New York. Simpson acknowledged Scott's letter of the 9th enclosing a statement of travel expenses for the "recent survey" and said he was passing the bill for payment. He thanked Scott for "making the survey for us" and wrote that the company was "arranging to follow some of the suggestions offered, and have already put some of them into effect."

What it shows

Metropolitan Life's industrial health staff had surveyed Raybestos-Manhattan's Stratford plant in the fall of 1939 and sent a recheck survey in November (Dr. McConnell's letter of November 29, 1939). Simpson's letter shows the company paying the survey's travel costs and saying it had begun to act on some of the recommendations, without saying which ones.

In Johns-Manville's index

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

Acknowledges receipt of letter dated 1/9/40 and informs invoice has been forwarded for payment.

Related documents

• Thomas W. Scott of Metropolitan Life to Sumner Simpson Billing the Plant Survey's Travel Expenses (1940)
• Dr. W. J. McConnell to Sumner Simpson Acknowledging Payment for the Plant Survey (1940)
• Dr. W. J. McConnell to Sumner Simpson Enclosing the Recheck Survey of the Stratford Plant (1939)

About this copy

This is document 04348 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.