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I am enclosing herewith, for your records, a photo static copy of the Memorandum of Agreement and photostatic copies of my letter to Dr. Gardner of November 20, 1936 and his reply of November 23> 1936, which set forth the substance of the arrange ment between Dr. Gardner and the group. Copies of this letter, together with copies of the enclosed photostats, are being sent to each of the other partici pants. Last December Johns-Ianville Corporation sent Dr. Gardner its check for $1250, constituting advance payment for the first quarter of 1937 on account of his annual retainer. Your Company and others of the group will be billed shortly for .your share of this payment under the terras of the Memorandum, johnsLianville Corporation is willing to continue making these advances to Dr. Gardner at the commencement of each succeeding calendar quarter during 1937, unless you or others prefer the matter be handled differently. I believe, however, that Dr. Gardner will prefer, in the matter of payment, to deal with one member of the group and it is my opinion, in which I believe you concur, that this represents the most satisfactory procedure. Johns-Iianville Corporation has likewise provided Dr. Gardner with 1200 pounds of asbestos fibre which he considers satisfactory for his purposes, although it h'as been found necessary for him to subject it to a "ball milling" process in order to re duce it to the desired degree of fineness. He estimates that this quantity will be sufficient for the first year*s experiments and we will be very glad, at our expense, to provide him with similar quantities for the other two years. I have also sent Dr. Gardner a photosta.tic copy of the Memorandum of Agreement so that he is fully advised as to the identity of those companies whose support he is receiving. _ At the same time I advised Dr, Gardner that those concerns which had limited their contributions were to participate just as fully'in; the benefits resulting from hisexperiments as were the others! / ' I'1 Very truly yours. VE:T Enclosures Vandiver Brovm General Attorney