Sumner Simpson to S. R. Zimmerman Sending Vandiver Brown's Letter to Dr. Gardner (1936)

A short covering letter of November 23, 1936, from Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan, to S. R. Zimmerman of the law firm Zimmerman, Myers & Kready in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, enclosing a copy of the letter Vandiver Brown wrote on November 20, 1936, "to Dr. LeRoy U. Gardner of the Saranac Laboratory, Saranac Lake, New York, which is self-explanatory." Simpson added: "This is simply for your information."

What it shows

Brown's letter of November 20 set the terms of the asbestos dust experiments the industry was paying for at Saranac Laboratory (Brown to Gardner). Simpson sent the same covering letter that day to his managers, among them George R. Weber at Manheim (Simpson to Weber) and E. H. Jeffords at Charleston (Simpson to Jeffords). Zimmerman replied the next day (November 24, 1936).

In Johns-Manville's index

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

Transmittal letter for correspondence dated 11/20/36 to Dr. Gardner from V. Brown (letter not attached).

Related documents

• Vandiver Brown to Leroy Gardner Authorizing the Saranac Asbestos Experiments (1936)
• S. R. Zimmerman to Sumner Simpson on the Arrangement with Dr. Gardner (1936)
• Sumner Simpson to George R. Weber Sending Vandiver Brown's Letter to Dr. Gardner (1936)
• Sumner Simpson to E. H. Jeffords Sending Brown's Letter to Gardner (1936)

About this copy

This is document 03494 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.