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Window frames arrived finally.  Beautiful weather things progressing nicely  Visit of a certain Mr. [[underlined]] [[Briqet?]] [[/underlined]] of Paris who wants to use Bakelite for [[underlined]] portable batteries [[/underlined]] instead of celluloid.  Told him [[underlined]] celluloid is better. [[/underlined]]
Nina has sore throat and stiff neck since several days.
[[margin]] April 13. [[/margin]] Trees and Rhodondendrons arrived here from Yonkers Nurseries.  Busy day tree planting.  Got thru with all our evergreens.  Planted very big Austrian pine on entrance.  Weather warm got sunburnt in face Unpleasant incident with wife of Lewis who
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was impudent to Céline.  I believe I shall have trouble with that woman some day or another.  I shall prepare myself to get somebody else in that cottage who is not obnoxious and pay Lewis weekly wages and let him house where he wants.  The poor fellow is not to blame and is much to be pitied to be matched with such a wife.  I do not desire to talk this matter over with him because this might prove harmful to his recovery.  I have paid him regularly his wages during his sickness but somehow his wife has