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generously furnished basket of exquisitely selected fruit.  Flowers and [[peanuts?]] from others.
May 16  Beautiful calm weather everybody seems to be happy and cheerful.
Sent a Marconigram to Thurlow asking to mail me a sample of Townsend caustic to London.  [[underlined]] Elmer Sperry [[/underlined]] was with me.  This is my [[underlined]] first Marconi message [[/underlined]]  Operator was a man from Ostend.  Said SS Amerika was communicating with shore and therefore had to wait.  His receiver was a telephone receiver as used by telephone operators.  Reading was by sound.  Source of flashes same as for Morse
[[margin]]My first Marconi message[[margin]]
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[[Kroonland written in red vertically in margin]]
code.  I listened to it. could be distinctly heard.  Finally got connection with Cape Cod or Nantucket (I do not know exactly which) message was rapidly delivered.  Charges for following Baekeland Yonkers.  Thurlow mail sample Townsend caustic London cost $3.90 Charge to Development & Funding with $9.00 paid at Niagrara Falls for dinner holets.  Ornstein Marsh & Reily.  the [[strikethrough]] sparking [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined]] flashing of the sparks [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] made the whole very spectacular.  What new possibilities have come into the world! [[/underlined]]
[[M?]] Taylor of Penn Yan delegate of Am. Electrochemical
[[D & F Co. X $3.90 $9.00 written in left margin]]
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