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[[underlined]] Very strange boy.  Very developed in some ways and yet very much of a child yet.  The day before yesterday he was playing marbles.[[/underlined]]  For his birthday we let him ask what he wanted. [[?]] party etc.  Well he only wanted [[underlined]] a big glass marble and a Brownie Camera![[/underlined]]  Celine found out that they wanted to make [[underlined]] George [[/underlined]] president of his class but he refused and afterwards when asked why by his master said he was satisfied with the thought that they had asked him.
More letters of inquiries about Bakelite came pouring
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in.  [[underlined]] Thurlow [[/underlined]] left for Schenectady teaching General Electric how to use Bakelite for insulators.
Feb. 9.  Big mail again.  Very little time for laboratory work.
Feb 10.  Unpleasant warm weather and pouring rain.  Spent most of day answering another batch of inquiries about Bakelite.  Hope this will end soon and busy me something more real.  I write this in the evening.  [[underlined]] Nina [[/underlined]] is in bed.  Stomach upset ^she ate ^too much orange, cake, chop, fudge etc.  Celine is helping [[underlined]] George [[/underlined]]in his grammar like usually.  George was learning by memory.  Walt Whitman's:
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