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A one-page letter of July 18, 1941, from Sumner Simpson, president of the Raybestos Division of Raybestos-Manhattan, to Saranac Laboratory for the attention of Dr. Leroy U. Gardner. Simpson enclosed "a Laboratory report by our Mr. Fred Wheadon to our Mr. C. S. Batchelor" as "a partial answer" to Gardner's letter of June 26 on the effects of water and dilute alkalies on asbestos, and invited him to visit the company's chemists at Stratford the next time he came to New York.
- Author
- Sumner Simpson
- Sent to
- Leroy U. Gardner
- Published by
- Raybestos-Manhattan
- Series
- The Sumner Simpson Papers
- Date
- July 18, 1941
- Number
- Simpson no. 04654
- Library no.
- ACL Doc 13528 · asbestosclaims.law/library/13528
- Rights
- Republished under fair use for research and historical study.
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What it shows
The letter answers Gardner's request of June 26. The typist's initials (CSB) suggest C. S. Batchelor drafted it for Simpson. The laboratory report is not in the file, so what Raybestos-Manhattan told Saranac Laboratory about the fiber is not known from this record.
In Johns-Manville's index
Johns-Manville's attorneys indexed the Sumner Simpson Papers. Their index describes this document as follows:
Transmittal letter for RM lab report dealing with effects of water and dilute alkalies on asbestos. Suggests a meeting with chemists at the Stratford plant to further discuss this subject (lab report not attached).
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This is document 04654 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.
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“Sumner Simpson to Leroy U. Gardner Sending a Laboratory Report on Water and Alkalies.” July 18, 1941. The Sumner Simpson Papers, Simpson no. 04654. Raybestos-Manhattan. AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 13528. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/13528.
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