Document E8MmwBxro75M0pooqeqjdKa4

FILE NAME: WR Grace (WRG) DATE: December 10, 1937 DOC#: WRG192 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: 1937 Duplicate Letter to Metropolitan Life Insurance (WRG023) with Additional Annotation regarding Absence from WR Grace files. ... ... uiaue v.o. received this document on July 27, 1985, from the plaintiff as a trial exhibit in Greenville County school . Dist. v. o. s. Gypsum C o . , et al., C/A No. 82-3142-14 (U.s.D.C. South Carolina). No copy of this document has been found in Grace's own files. Anthony J. Lease, 1,0 Assistant Bedlcel Director Metropolitan Life Incurune* Coapaay 1 Mealeon Avenue Mee Xor*, Mew Xork Dear Tonyi ThuBjt you for your note of Dscenber 8th* X find that we alee have a oogjr of *Solvants* fay Barrens ana, Judging fran it* wall thuabed appearance, it is i ueoful Ig m * Xou ill recall that we hare' a Shot and Flues' Coda Coaaittaa ulon la -engaged la aettl&g 19 aaxiiaai allowable canoantratlans for dustn aad fuaea As to allies dusty we are planning to folio* the rocoaosodstioas of your Bedloal Committee of the latio&al Silieoais Confareae* and oor figures an the various industrial fuses are those which X anewed you the other day* Chile asbestos is at present no wary laportant factor in Ha sachusetts industry, X feel that we should nevertheless set up acme sort of a figure for it and X would be very grateful if you would be silling ' to give as your aevioe on this Xou sill no doubt foal that this la just shat you don't sat to do, but X hope that you sill be s goon guy asvnr thslsss and give as st least shat you regard as a "best guess* X had gaits s talk today with Bradley Bessy, preaidant of the Bessy & H a y Chanlaol Cospaay, sho forserly owned the ultlbestea Company, the eon as m about Axoss toner osployase Dr* lases has zsoently so elogusetly srittan* X asntionod to bin Boy Qardaer*a opinion that aobestoals is dafinit not progressiva aad see quite surprised to have his taka pretty definite is with this* Is gave it as his opinion that the four principal types of asbee Canadian, feu elan, Bhodeaian and Afrisen, varied narkadly in their polaonary effect end he thought that tae results of experiments with one type eould no hold for another* Dewey is a highly intelligent chap and definitely one of the leaders in industrial chsniatry in this countryj alee, incidentally, m * es-eolonal in the Chemical Warfare Service* Xf you nave any dopefmich soul bo Interesting In reply to his theory about the different types of asbestos, X eould be aore than glad to be able to traasnlt it to hla* Sincerely, 1 e PLAINTIFF'S