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Ne w En g l a n d Ta p e Co ., In c . 30 TOWER STREET MASSACHUSETTS IN REPLY REFER TO: HAJ: as 19^6 Dr. Cecil K. Drinker., M.D. Professor of Physiology Harvard University School of Public Health ,55.Shattuck Street Boston 15 Massachusetts My dear Dr. Drinker: I regret the delay in acknowledging your most kind letter of February 25 but I have been out ill and also out of the city on business for which please accept my apology. Your suggestion of a visit and discussion with you and Dr. Colombo is appreciated and we will follow your suggestion and get in touch with your office to arrange a suitable time sometime in the near future. I will inform you now, however, that the Lead Stearate will be used only in paste form so that it appears to us offhand as though there is no danger from lead poison ing through dust or particles being in the air by the workers but the hazard is rather one of contacts through the skin of the workers handling the paste, so that we believe that if the workers are properij^lijtg^te^^ttL^.oY.es, etc. there is little or no danger of any leadTp.olsrorm^%i our particular operation. 'fAWfrn!- V However, we can go over this" matter in greater detail on the occasion of our visit to your office which I assure you we will arrange just as soon as we have progressed further in our plans for the operating setup and techniques that will be adopted in the plant. Sincerely yours, NEW ,ENGLAND TAPpUCer; INC. liywvsJtJ-1^CnJLV) Howard A. Jones Asst, to President