Vandiver Brown to M. F. Judd Itemizing Otto Binder's April Expenses (1935)

A two-page letter of May 15, 1935, from Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's attorney, to M. F. Judd of Raybestos-Manhattan, answering Judd's question about Otto L. Binder's expenses. Brown listed Binder's April work: J-M's Manville factory, a week at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, "assisting Mr. Fehnel on what I assume was some other Metropolitan project involving dust counting," four days at Manheim charged to Raybestos-Manhattan, and a trip with Fehnel through Montreal and Quebec to J-M's asbestos mines. He added that reports from Drs. Lanza and McConnell and from Mr. Fehnel showed Binder "doing very satisfactory work."

What it shows

Binder took dust counts alongside J. W. Fehnel of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, whose industrial health staff (Dr. Anthony J. Lanza and Dr. W. J. McConnell) were studying asbestos dust, while J-M and Raybestos-Manhattan split his salary and expenses plant by plant. Binder had just finished dust counts at J-M's asbestos mines and its Nashua, New Hampshire, factory. A handwritten note on the letter reads: "Report to S.S. everytime he visits one of our plants."

In Johns-Manville's index

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

Gives itemized account of $81.48 invoice billed to RM on O. Binder's account. Reports McConnell and Fehnel indicate Binder is doing satisfactory work and all grounds for complaint due to lack of interest have been eliminated.

Related documents

• M. F. Judd to Vandiver Brown on Otto Binder's April Expenses (1935)
• M. F. Judd to Vandiver Brown Asking That Otto Binder Report to Sumner Simpson (1935)

About this copy

This is document 02480-02481 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.