Sumner Simpson to Vandiver Brown Thanking Him for Dr. Lanza's Letter (1938)

A one-page letter of May 4, 1938, from Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan, to Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, thanking him for the copy of Dr. Lanza's letter and saying he would attach it to the copy of Dr. Gardner's report he was sending to Charleston. "It looks very much as if our expenditure with Dr. Gardner has been well worth while up to date," he wrote.

What it shows

Raybestos-Manhattan and Johns-Manville were among the companies paying for Dr. Leroy Gardner's asbestos dust experiments at Saranac Laboratory. Simpson's remark came after Gardner's second progress report found little harm from fine dust and Dr. Lanza called that finding "very much in favor of the industry."

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 5/2/38. Remarks expenditure with Dr. Gardner seems to have been worthwhile.

Related documents

• Dr. A. J. Lanza to Vandiver Brown on the Mechanical Action of Asbestos Dust (1938)
• Leroy U. Gardner, Second Progress Report on Experimental Asbestosis (1938)
• Vandiver Brown to Sumner Simpson on Dr. Ireland's Shabani Findings (1938)

About this copy

This is document 03466 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.