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what I am worth. I certainly haven't lost faith in myself as a result of this - it is unshaken and I feel the future can hold a lot if I apply myself. My biggest weakness is not in talent but in the in[it]iative to put it to work and that is the thing I must overcome. "Whitey" himself is a good example of what it takes to get places. He has always been an opportunist, able to see openings and to take them - I doubt if his mind is any better fundamentally than mine but he has trained himself to use it far better. Then too, there is the point of blowing your own horn more, letting people know you exist and are somebody. I have never done that even when I could.

I still come back to my old philosophy that if one plays one's game the best way one knows how and refuses to worry having done that, life is bound to be good, come what may. If I could only believe that and really apply it for long enough, I know I would never regret it.

Had a note from Donovan today asking me to be in Boston Sept. 11th for a session with Putnam at Boston on Montpelier and Wells River and also if possible to be at Portland on Sept. 8th, Friday for "Rep's" power house opening and negociations with Abbot of the Brown Co. So I asked "Whitey" if I should continue with the Brown Co and other industrials in the New England Dist. He said he wanted me to but to feel Shapter out on it on Tuesday and see how I made out - if I had trouble, to report to him. "Whitey" felt one man should cover the steam roads and the industrials in a territory like New England. So I may be working for Shap partially as well as