Vandiver Brown to Sumner Simpson on the North Carolina Asbestosis Cases (1937)

A one-page letter of January 11, 1937, from Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, to Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan. Brown noted Simpson's report that Union Asbestos & Rubber would pay $250 a year toward "the underwriting of Dr. Gardner's experiments," and thanked him for a copy of Dr. Gardner's letter of January 2. He assumed that "these 70 cases of alleged asbestosis," on which the North Carolina State Industrial Commission wanted Dr. Sampson's opinion, were the ones Dr. Shull had reviewed "in the September issue of RADIOLOGY."

What it shows

Dr. Leroy Gardner's letter of January 2 (Gardner to Simpson) reported that the North Carolina Industrial Commission had asked Saranac Laboratory for help in diagnosing about 70 claims of asbestosis. Vandiver Brown connected those claims to Dr. J. Rush Shull's published review of 71 cases, which Simpson had circulated with Gardner's critique (December 24, 1936).

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 1/9/37 and copy of Gardner's letter dated 1/2/37. Assumes the 70 cases of alleged asbestosis the N.C. State Industrial Commission needs help diagnosing are the same 70 cases reviewed by Dr. Shull in his recent article.

Related documents

• Sumner Simpson to Vandiver Brown on Union Asbestos & Rubber Signing the Saranac Agreement (1937)
• Dr. Leroy U. Gardner to Sumner Simpson on the North Carolina Commission's Call for Help with Asbestosis Cases (1937)
• Dr. Leroy U. Gardner to Sumner Simpson Reviewing Dr. Shull's Asbestosis Article (1936)
• L. J. Silverman of Union Asbestos & Rubber to Sumner Simpson on a $250 Share of the Saranac Experiments (1937)

About this copy

This is document 03171 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.