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Sumner Simpson's Secretary to Dr. A. J. Lanza Confirming the Meeting with Dr. Gardner (1936)

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A one-page letter of November 7, 1936, from the secretary to Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan, to Dr. A. J. Lanza of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in New York. Following a telephone call with Dr. Gardner the day before, it confirmed that Simpson would be at Lanza's office on Monday, November 9, at 1:00 P.M., "to meet you and Dr. Gardner." Simpson had tried to reach both men by phone that morning without success.

Author
Secretary to Sumner Simpson
Sent to
Dr. A. J. Lanza
Published by
Raybestos-Manhattan
Series
The Sumner Simpson Papers
Date
November 7, 1936
Number
Simpson no. 03001
Library no.
ACL Doc 13576 · asbestosclaims.law/library/13576
Rights
Republished under fair use for research and historical study.

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What it shows

At this meeting Simpson, Vandiver Brown of Johns-Manville, Dr. Leroy U. Gardner of Saranac Laboratory and Drs. Lanza and McConnell of Metropolitan Life discussed "the Asbestosis situation in the Asbestos industry." The next day Simpson wrote to other asbestos companies, among them Asbestos Manufacturing Company, proposing that they pay together for animal experiments in Gardner's dust chambers.

In Johns-Manville's index

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

Confirms meeting between S. Simpson, Dr. Gardner and Dr. Lanza at Lanza's office.

About this copy

This is document 03001 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.

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Secretary to Sumner Simpson. “Sumner Simpson's Secretary to Dr. A. J. Lanza Confirming the Meeting with Dr. Gardner.” November 7, 1936. The Sumner Simpson Papers, Simpson no. 03001. Raybestos-Manhattan. AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 13576. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/13576.

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