Letters Received to H.H. Barker, February 5, 1930

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI COLUMBIA DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY FEB 7 1930 February 5, 1930 Mr. H. H. Barker U. S. Radium Corporation 535 Pearl Street New York City Dear Howard: We have put on a new man in our crystallizing laboratory to become familiar with the technique and care which must be taken. He is directly responsible to Dr. Breckenridge and Lloyd Thomas. The latter has been at work in the orystallizing laboratory for fully a year now, and has shown himself to be a very reliable man. We hope that this new man, judging by his scholar ship and performances in laboratory experimentations, will prove equally trustworthy and careful. In other words we just wish to tell you that we are just about ready to begin operations on the coneentrates which we ex- pect to refine for you. Since we shall try to extract the radiothorium which has accumulated in some of your samples, I hope that you will be kind enough to mark the bottlessin which mesothorium is present. Tomorrow I expect to send on to Dr. Moore the book of papers bearing on the Radium-Poisoning us cases. I have gone over these papers and have selected certain pages which seemed to have a direct bearing on the pending case. These pages I have had copied and I shall send on to you a complete transcript and I shall also send one copy to Mr. Markley. With you I would like to raise this question: Would it not be advisable for you to prepare a brief statement of the principal points involved in the court case? In view of the chance that the case will finally go to the Supreme Court, it seems to me that a complete statement of the facts set down in simple language will ultimately become the instrument upon which the court must rely for a decision, and I believe that your statement at. would present the main points issuea, probably more pre- cisely and logically than the attorneys' view of the case. I am simply making this as e suggestion. With very good wishes, I remain Yours sincerely, Herman Schlendt HS/GMA. Herman Schlundt.