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In the same way he thought slightly of my wood hardening process and after I had failed to rouse or keep up his enthusiasm I concluded to investigate further myself with the result that I invented Bakalite (see laboratory note June 18 1907) while he was away in Detroit experimenting with his soluble shellac substitute.
Now Thurlow is a valuable help, honest, truthful [[strikethrough]] and [[strikethrough]] intelligent and generally well posted, a man of undoubted individuality, but like all such people [[underline]] rather stubborn [[/underline]] sometimes just like myself.  The fact that [[underline]] he only comes here from eleven or twelve at noon until five at noon and even then [[/underline]]
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[[underline]] is not entirely very busy makes matters go very slowly. [[/underline]] If he felt the sting of want or had other responsibilities in life he would probably put more energy in availing himself of these opportunities for working out more streneuously this very promising field.  But I have to take him as he is, with his shortcomings as well as his excellent qualities.
I find that [[underline]] in one ^full day assisted by [[margin]] my gardiner [[with line to Lewis]] [[/margin]] Lewis I can terminate more work than Thurlow can accomplish in a week [[/underline]] and yet he is very valuable to me even if it were only by criticising me and thus either make me look at the other side of a proposition or arouse me to more emphasis in my views.  Then if I came
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