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C o Tif 1 CaCh tx al March 22*1940 J* <A* noWk>C> t/O Ethyl Ga30lliie Corporation i?uiod3-*IIaverty Building Peachtree-Fersyth-Williams Streets Atlanta, Georgia Dear Jr* Costello: I am sending to you herewith the original and two copies of a report which is designed for the information of yourself, the Orange State Oil Company and, perhaps, the insurance company* I oilall take care of reporting the facts in a slightly different manner to the doctors in Jacksonville, but I have promised to report directly to Mr#Van Brunt of the Orange State Oil Company# This, I believe, will serve his purposes* You will note that I have written on a separate sheet, which is not to be incorporated in the general report, a statement as to the deficiencies of the Orange State representslives in the matter of their failure to cooperate with us# I have deliberately left this out of the body of the report for the reason that I did not want to put myself on record in the report in demonstration of their negligence* Naturally I want them to see this sheet but I want you to be very cautious in holding that sheet so that it will not get into the hands of any person for whom It was not intended* I do not want to conceal the facts but, on the othor hand, I do not want to be responsible, as a matter of record, for proving them guilty of criminal negligence* In order that you and they might be quit sure of my position, I want you to know that I oia not sending a copy of this material to anyone except yourself, and I do this with the idea that you will deliver it into tho.tr hands and will exorcise your own discretion as to how to proceed from that point on* Let me conclude by thanking you and Mr, Phipps for the completeness of the reports to me since by means of them I have been able to piece together all of the facta, and to make a comprehensive statement of the situation. Cordially yours R,\K .* 1 a Dictated but root road Robert A, Kgyhoe K E" 0021098