Letters Received to Edwin F. Smith, June 9, 1932

INDARK REG. U.S. PAT.OFF RADIUM LUMINOUS MATERIAL CABLE ADDRESS: UNDARK NEW YORK UNITED STATES RADIUM CORPORATION 535 PEARL STREET, NEW YORK June 9th,1932. Mr. Edwin F. Smith, Edwards, Smith & Dawson, 1 Exchange Pl., Jersey City, N.J. Re: Bessie Bolton (neu Bessie Lindsay) vs. United States adium Corporation Dear Mr. Smith: In the third paragraph of my letter of May 6,1931 to which you refer, we call attention to the Research fund of $500 with which we provided Dr. Flinn for experimental use in connection with the treatment of Mrs. Bolton. This was done in view of the fact that no action had been started, and that anything that could be done to better lirs. Bolton's condition would thereby lessen her claim. The fundlies long since been used up and her care has been provided for thru other means, the source of which we do not know. So far as we know the medical men attending Mrs. Bolton are: Dr. E. Cox Donald, Linden, N.J. Dr. L. G. Beisler, Hillside, N.J. and Dr. F. B. Flinn, and other members of the staff of the Presbyterian Hospital. I don't believe that Mrs. Bolton was treated personally by Dr. Nartland, although Dr. Beisler consulted with him regarding her condition. Thru Dr. Flinn ars. Bolton was admitted to the Presbyterian Hospital at 168th St. N.Y.C.,on Dec. 5,1931, and on Dec. 17th, Dr. Darragh, Dean of the College of Physicians and Surgeons preformed what is known as a Lane techneque operation. At the outset the feeling was current that Mrs. Bolton was making progress, but as time progressed her condition did not improve, and I am advised that the physicians attending her held a consultation this morning regard- ing her case, and they now feel that it is practically hopeless. Up to this time they have held hope for her recovery, but have now decided to advise her husband that it is probably anly a matter of time. She is still confined at the Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Flinn advises me that they have complete. X-ray photographs of Mrs. Bolton taken at the time of her admission, and at various times since then, which are available for our medical men to examine. They will not allow the X-ray photographs to leave the hospital, but are subject to examination there. Apparently the members of the staff of the Presbyterian Hospital will be glad to consult with anyone whom we may appoint relative to lirs. Bolton's condition, and I presume allow a personal examination of Mrs. Bolton. According to our information Mrs. Bolton suffered a spontaneous fracture of the Femur on May 21,1928, when standing in front of the sideboard in her home. After a period of 12 weeks there was apparently a callous deposit and the fracture heald. On November 28,1929, as Mrs. Bolton was stepping from a stool, she suffered a second spontaneous fracture of the sane femur, about 3n above the original fracture. This fincture has never healed, and was the con- dition operated upon by Dr. Darragh on Dec. 17,1931.