Dr. Robert T. P. deTreville to Dr. Kenneth W. Smith Sending Dr. Gross's Report for Testimony (1964)

A one-page letter of June 12, 1964, from Dr. Robert T. P. deTreville, managing director of the Industrial Hygiene Foundation of America, to Dr. Kenneth W. Smith, Johns-Manville's medical director. DeTreville sends a report "from Paul" (Dr. Paul Gross) that had been signed in his absence, promises a signed copy when Gross returns from Aspen, and adds: "You will undoubtedly wish to be able to introduce the properly signed report into testimony." He also encloses a paper by Hutchison and Friedenberg that Smith had requested, charging only the cost of reproduction. A handwritten note reads "Invoice #366."

What it shows

The letter does not name the case, but its Bates number comes directly before Gross's June 1964 report on the post-mortem slides of Arnold Campbell, so it was probably that report. It shows that the Foundation knew J-M meant to use its pathologist's reports as evidence in contested claims.