ALS signed “G. W. Carver,” one page both sides, 8.5 x 11, Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute letterhead, July 31, 1934. Handwritten letter to "Mr. Clements," in part: "You will have no trouble in getting all the peanut oil you want by writing to the Edible Oil Section of the Planters Nut and Chocolate Co., Suffolk, Va. This is where most of my patients get theirs. You could under no circumstance refine it more than it is. This oil would come the nearest to what you want I am sure as you would not become supersaturated so quickly, and have to stop at the risk of bad results…The chemistry of fats and oils I am very certain would not interest you. Even if you had the saponification, and extraction, apparatus to do it with. My oils are all built up on what we call a fatty acid base, using largely the lineolic, lignoceric, and oleic acids, that is the glycerides. In using your oil don't apply more than the skin will take up." In fine condition.
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