Vandiver Brown to J. S. Offutt of U.S. Gypsum Sending the Saranac Agreement (1937)

A one-page letter of February 10, 1937, from Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, to J. S. Offutt, assistant to the president of U.S. Gypsum Company in Chicago, sent by registered mail with a copy to Sumner Simpson. Following their meeting "in Dr. Lanza's office," Brown sent the Memorandum of Agreement among "certain members of the asbestos industry" to underwrite the experiments with asbestos dust "which Dr. Gardner is undertaking on their behalf." The terms with Gardner were in the exchange of letters already in the hands of Gypsum's attorney, Mr. Price. All the companies at the meeting where the plan was "broached" had signed, and Brown hoped Gypsum would join.

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 to sponsor Saranac study. Requests that U.S. Gypsum return the Memorandum as soon as possible as all other parties have signed it. A copy will be provided if U.S. Gypsum decides to sponsor the study.

Related documents

• Vandiver Brown to M. F. Judd on U.S. Gypsum's Interest in the Saranac Experiments (1937)
• Vandiver Brown to Charles M. Price on U.S. Gypsum Joining the Saranac Dust Experiments (1937)
• Vandiver Brown to J. S. Offutt Enclosing the Brown-Gardner Letters (1937)

About this copy

This is document 03196 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.