Vandiver Brown to Sumner Simpson on the Sponsors Continuing Gardner's Experiments in 1941 (1941)

A one-page letter of January 3, 1941, from Vandiver Brown, secretary of Johns-Manville, to Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan, headed "Dr. Leroy U. Gardner - Asbestos Dust Experiments." Brown reported that Gatke Corporation, Southern Asbestos Company, Union Asbestos & Rubber Company and Johns-Manville had agreed to contribute to Gardner's experimental work "during 1941 upon the same basis as during 1940," and asked Simpson to tell him "as promptly as possible" whether Raybestos-Manhattan would take part.

What it shows

By 1941 the asbestos textile companies had been paying for Dr. Leroy Gardner's dust experiments at Saranac Laboratory for five years, renewing the arrangement each year through Vandiver Brown. Two sponsors had dropped out for 1940 (Brown's letter of January 15, 1940). Raybestos-Manhattan renewed its $1,000 pledge for 1941 eleven days later (J. F. D. Rohrbach's reply).

In Johns-Manville's index

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

Informs that Gatke Corp., Southern Asbestos Co., Union Asbestos and Rubber Co., and J-M have agreed to continue to sponsor Dr. Gardner's experimental work during 1941 upon same basis as during 1940. Requests information regarding RM continuing their contribution to Saranac studies.

Related documents

• Vandiver Brown to Sumner Simpson on Two Sponsors Leaving the Saranac Experiments (1940)
• Sumner Simpson to Vandiver Brown Agreeing to Pay $1,000 for Gardner's 1940 Experiments (1940)
• J. F. D. Rohrbach to Vandiver Brown Renewing Raybestos-Manhattan's Saranac Pledge for 1941 (1941)
• J. F. D. Rohrbach to W. H. Dunn Forwarding the Saranac Pledge Letters and Gardner's Report (1941)

About this copy

This is document 04637 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.