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[[stamped page number]] 80 [[/stamp]] Trinidad 14.

[[left margin note]] XI-29-35 [[/margin note]] Went again to the s.s. agency. It's getting to be a firm habit. Still no news, but the agent was just calling for news. When I got home I found the proof of my thesis waiting me, and the whole afternoon was spent on that. It had gone to Dominica and so was delayed. As usual it rained hard in the afternoon. It is supposed to be a little unusual, but every day we've had several [[underline]] hard showers [[/underline]] and other light rains.
[[left margin note]] XI-30-35 [[/margin note]] This morning I broke the habit by phoning to the agent. He said the West Ira would not arrive until December 5[[underlined superscript]]th[[/superscript]]. What a schedule,--only nine days late. I'm hoping now that the motor will be on the Norden or the Lady Drake, due on the 2[[underlined superscript]]nd[[/superscript]] and 4[[underlined superscript]]th[[/superscript]]. More work on the proof. It's quite a long job, and I'm glad it came in time to fill in some of these days of waiting.
In the evening we were to go to the Adamson's for dinner and to play bridge at some benefit party. We took a taxi out ($1.12), arriving about 7[[underlined superscript]]00[[/superscript]]. After dinner we drove out to the home of Geoffrey Evans, where we met [[strikethrough]] Mrs. [[/strikethrough]] Lady Evans, and had a nice table on a very large veranda.
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It was not a progressive party and we played all evening[[strikeout]]s[[/strikeout]] with the Admason's. They beat us. Mrs. Carmichael was there, and invited us to cocktails on next Friday. I said I couldn't promise to come.
Afterwards the Adamson's brought us back into town. It was dry but cool.
[[left margin note]]XII-1-35 [[/margin note]] Sunday. Today the Furness Line steamer Norden (newly chartered) was due to arrive. I tried to phone but couldn't get any information. So I went down to the Customs House and was told they had no news of her at all except that she had been due yesterday. Worked again on the proof. Was quite disgusted at [[strikethrough]]the[[/strikethrough]] some of the corrections which had been made in my MS. For instance, the title had been cut down to Morph. of the Col. Fam. Staphyl; disc was everywhere changed to disk; cubic centimeters was abbreviated to cm^3; quite was always replaced with rather; the word species had been replaced in one case with forms; and practically every hyphen in the MS had been removed! I had a hard time keeping my resentment down sometimes. There were, of course, many good changes.
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