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while Berolzheimer and myself took the Park Avenue car and then Berolzheimer told me that from what he (B) knew as far as he worked in the same laboratory and had seen Patsche at work he did not use phenol in [[strikethrough]] my [[strikethrough]] the way I do and that what he had accomplished thus far was very rudimentary and amounts to very little from a functional standpoint.  Told me that Patsche has too little knowledge of organic chemistry to know really where he is at and that this evening he had learned more by my own conversation than he ever knew before.  Berolzheimer did not dare to make any more definitive statements on
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this subject because he is employed under Patsche and evidently does not want to let himself be on bad terms with him.
March 21 Beautiful day. Baskerville boy here. Carpenter busy reframing barn and putting in windows.
[[written vertically in left margin]]Berolzheimer
In the evening received visit from Berolzheimer who came to fetch copy of my book.  I showed him all my samples of Bakalite and many articles manufactured by it also intermediary products and initial liquid. Showed him around my laboratory.  Seemed very much impressed with what I had accomplished and stated that what Patsche had done thus far was entirely out of compa- 
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