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Sumner Simpson to Vandiver Brown on the Last Signatures to the Saranac Agreement (1937)

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A short letter of January 21, 1937, from Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan, to Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, about the Memorandum of Agreement with Dr. Gardner. Everyone had signed "but Gatke and American Brake Block"; Gatke had had the agreement for some time, and Simpson's office was writing them again that day "to hurry it up."

Author
Sumner Simpson
Sent to
Vandiver Brown
Published by
Raybestos-Manhattan
Series
The Sumner Simpson Papers
Date
January 21, 1937
Number
Simpson no. 03177
Library no.
ACL Doc 13567 · asbestosclaims.law/library/13567
Rights
Republished under fair use for research and historical study.

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Informs every company but Gatke has signed Memorandum of Agreement re Saranac study. Gatke has Memorandum and a request has been made to forward the signed copy as soon as possible.

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This is document 03177 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.

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“Sumner Simpson to Vandiver Brown on the Last Signatures to the Saranac Agreement.” January 21, 1937. The Sumner Simpson Papers, Simpson no. 03177. Raybestos-Manhattan. AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 13567. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/13567.

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