Sumner Simpson to Vandiver Brown Agreeing to Pay $1,000 for Gardner's 1940 Experiments (1940)

A one-page letter of January 16, 1940, from Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan, to Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney. Answering Brown's letter of the 15th "in reference to apportioning the expense of continuing Dr. Gardner's experiments," Simpson wrote that "we are agreeable to contributing $1,000.00 for the year 1940."

What it shows

With two sponsors gone (Brown's letter of January 15), Raybestos-Manhattan agreed at once to the larger share, so that Dr. Leroy Gardner's experiments at Saranac Laboratory could go on for a fourth year. Brown authorized Gardner to continue the next day.

In Johns-Manville's index

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

Acknowledges receipt of letter dated 1/15/40. Informs RM is willing to contribute $1,000 for year 1940 to Saranac study.

Related documents

• Vandiver Brown to Sumner Simpson on Two Sponsors Leaving the Saranac Experiments (1940)
• Vandiver Brown to Dr. Leroy U. Gardner Authorizing the Experiments for 1940 (1940)
• W. H. Dunn to M. N. Garvey Noting the Larger Saranac Contribution (1940)

About this copy

This is document 04343 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.