Sumner Simpson to Manfred Bowditch Asking for Gardner's Report Promptly (1946)

Raybestos-Manhattan's unsigned file copy of a one-page letter from Sumner Simpson, its president, to Manfred Bowditch, field director of Saranac Laboratory. Simpson wrote that Dr. Gardner, "some time before he passed on," had told him he would finish the asbestos dust experiments the laboratory had carried on for five years, "but we have waited for a year and a half to two years without a report." He asked Bowditch to send the report to Vandiver Brown of Johns-Manville promptly, adding "we are all very much disappointed that it did not come through at least two years ago."

What it shows

Simpson wrote a week after Vandiver Brown's letter of November 12, so that Saranac Laboratory heard from more than one sponsor. Bowditch answered him on November 27, enclosing his letter to Brown of the same day.

In Johns-Manville's index

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

Requests that Dr. Gardner's report be completed promptly. States "we are all very much disappointed that it did not come through at least two years ago."

Related documents

• Vandiver Brown to Manfred Bowditch Asking Saranac to Finish Gardner's Report (1946)
• Manfred Bowditch to Sumner Simpson Answering His Letter on Gardner's Report (1946)
• Manfred Bowditch to Vandiver Brown on the Overdue Asbestosis Report and Dr. Lanza (1946)

About this copy

This is document 05648 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.