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FILE NAME: Raybestos-Manhattan (RBM) DATE: 1939 Nov DOC#: RBM013 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Letter from the Saranac Lab to Vandiver Brown RE Asbestos Dust * i c/ < rm\ rifa* mm-Vm* A* C O? * The Saranac L aboratory fa r the Study of T uberculosis QF The Eawara L. Iru d e a u Focada d o n . U r. Vnnriiver Erown Jchr.s-U nnviile C orporation, 1 East iO th S tre e t liovr Tord C ity . S aranac L ads, irY Eovenber 1939 Bear l!r. Erovm: 2harc you T o r your v e ry d in d l a t t e r . I , to o , an sorry th a t I cisseu seeing you in P ittsb u rg h . With re fe re n c e to cur cord on asb esto s I have had in nind to sn;/a y o u a re p o rt sous tin e in the n ear f u tu re . As you .-crow, th * ev id en ce f r c n th e f i n e a s b e s to s i s a_iL c f a negative nature but th is in its e lf , 1 believe, is as im portant a c o n tr ib u tio n as we n ig h t c a d e . A y e a r ago i n Septem ber wo s t a r t e d a n o th e r e x p e r i- cont w ith the long abre d u st to serve as a co n tro l to t i n t in which tile sane m a te r ia l ijad been g reu n d . T his new ex p e rim en t Ins n o t gone io n s enough to e x h ib it any s ig n if ie n n t re a c tio n s i n thv s n i u s l s f lu n g s . I t i s ny i n t e n t i o n to a llo w i t oo con tin u e fo r a t l e a s t ano th er y ear d u rin g which tin e re hope to see s ig n ific a n t changes developing and to follow then in reontgenegrans, as proposed in the o rig in a l experim ent. I s h a ll cover these n a tte rs in nore d e ta il in a re p o rt th a t can be d is tr ib u te d to your c e n te r co n p an ies. I s in cerely tr u s t th a t they nay fe e l disposed to extuud th e ir grant so t h a t we nay c o n tin u e to c a rry on. 'We have been doing to o en p erin o n ts, in ste a d of one as o r ig in a lly cc n to x c la te c , during the p ast year. This has doubled the expense to the la b o ra to ry and t i e d up two o f o u r d u s t ro en s b u t r e f e l t t h a t i t was s u f f i c ie n tly in p o rtan t to undertake. You nay e x p e c t to h e c r f r o n ne f u r th e r a t 3one t i n e kw B W .m m I . i j W ** Sincerely yours, / s / Leroy tj. Gardner LUGi CC Leroy a . Gardner, li.2. D irector 096^ , t /. A