Sumner Simpson to Julian Mitchell Arranging to See Vandiver Brown (1935)

A short letter of October 2, 1935, from Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan, to Julian Mitchell of the law firm Mitchell & Horlbeck in Charleston, South Carolina. Simpson acknowledged Mitchell's letter of September 28 and said he had "today arranged to see Mr. Vandiver Brown, of the Johns-Manville Corp., next Tuesday."

What it shows

Mitchell was working with Raybestos-Manhattan on the asbestosis suits against its North Charleston plant (Simpson's telegram of October 15 says Mitchell and E. H. Jeffords wanted to talk with Metropolitan Life about the suits coming up in November). The meeting with Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's attorney, fell on Tuesday, October 8, the day of the committee meeting Brown mentioned in his letter of October 3.

In Johns-Manville's index

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

Acknowledges receipt of Mitchell's 9/28/35 letter. Informs have arranged meeting with V. Brown from J-M.

Related documents

• Sumner Simpson's Telegram to W. J. McConnell Asking Him to Stop at Charleston before the Asbestosis Trials (1935)
• Vandiver Brown to Sumner Simpson on Giving Asbestosis "the Minimum of Publicity" (1935)

About this copy

This is document 02742 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.