Vandiver Brown to M. F. Judd Enclosing the Saranac Silicosis Symposium Program (1935)

A one-page letter of May 24, 1935, from Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's attorney, to M. F. Judd, secretary of Raybestos-Manhattan, with the two-page program of the Silicosis Symposium held at Saranac Lake, New York, June 3 to 7, 1935. Brown wrote that E. H. Jeffords and Dr. Wild of the Charleston plant "will profit by their attendance" and that he would recommend J-M send people too. The program lists talks by Dr. R. R. Sayers of the U.S. Public Health Service, Dr. William S. McCann, Dr. A. R. Riddell, Dr. H. K. Kessler, Dr. Henry K. Pancoast, Prof. Philip Drinker of Harvard, and Dr. A. J. Lanza of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company on "Silicosis as a social problem and its control."

What it shows

Saranac Lake was the home of Saranac Laboratory, whose dust research J-M and Raybestos-Manhattan were funding. The symposium covered the causes, pathology, X-ray diagnosis and control of silicosis, with demonstrations at the Ray Brook Sanatorium; asbestos does not appear in the program. Both companies sent staff to learn what the leading dust-disease doctors were teaching.

In Johns-Manville's index

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

02485. Transmittal letter for program of Silicosis Symposium to be held at Saranac Lake during week of June 3rd. Acknowledges that Jeffords and Wild from RM's Charleston plant will attend (program attached).

02486-02487. "Program for Silicosis Symposium to be Held at Saranac Lake During Week of June 3rd." Details lectures, speakers and topics of scheduled symposium.

Related documents

• M. F. Judd to Vandiver Brown on Charleston Staff Attending the Saranac Symposium (1935)

About this copy

These are documents 02485, 02486-02487 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.