Vandiver Brown to J. S. Offutt of U.S. Gypsum on Its $250 Share of the Saranac Experiments (1937)

A one-page letter of February 26, 1937, from Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, to J. S. Offutt, assistant to the president of the United States Gypsum Company in Chicago, with a copy to Sumner Simpson of Raybestos-Manhattan. Brown acknowledged Offutt's letter of February 22 returning the Memorandum of Agreement and noted that U.S. Gypsum's contribution to Dr. Leroy U. Gardner's asbestos dust experiments was limited to $250 a year for three years, or $750 in all. He confirmed that U.S. Gypsum would "receive as full information with regard to the experiments and the results thereof as are furnished to the other companies in the joint enterprise," acknowledged its check for $62.50 toward the first quarter's payment to Gardner, and enclosed a photostatic copy of the Memorandum.

What it shows

U.S. Gypsum was the last company to join the group paying for Dr. Leroy Gardner's experiments at the Saranac Laboratory. Johns-Manville paid Gardner in advance each quarter and billed the other sponsors for their shares, and Vandiver Brown kept Sumner Simpson of Raybestos-Manhattan informed with copies.

In Johns-Manville's index

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

Transmittal letter for correspondence to Dr. Gardner and to Offutt of U.S. Gypsum.

Related documents

• Vandiver Brown to Dr. Leroy U. Gardner Sending the Signed Memorandum of Agreement (1937)
• Vandiver Brown to Sumner Simpson Listing the Sponsors of Dr. Gardner's Dust Experiments (1937)
• Vandiver Brown to M. F. Judd on U.S. Gypsum's Interest in the Saranac Experiments (1937)
• Vandiver Brown to J. S. Offutt of U.S. Gypsum Sending the Saranac Agreement (1937)
• Vandiver Brown to Charles M. Price on U.S. Gypsum Joining the Saranac Dust Experiments (1937)

About this copy

This is document 03201-03203 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.