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Restaurant in "passage" Crevettes, écrevisses & bottle Tisane.  Sleeping car to Berlin $66.75!  [[strikethrough]] Back [[/strikethrough]] Went back to Hotel, loved then conducted Celine to train which took her to Ghent while I went for my train.  By accident [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] met [[underlined]] Prof. Swarts [[/underlined]] who was with a lady.  He has aged very much and seemed very glad to see me.  Limps somewhat.  This is strange.  On my last visit in Europe I met him too by accident between two trains first time to shake hands.  My train left at 7:22.  This train de Luxe shakes so much that I had little  sleep.
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[[margin]] June 9. [[/margin]]  Arrived [[underlined]] Berlin [[/underlined]] at 7 AM.  Cloudy weather.  Fine city new part looks far superior to London Paris or Brussels.  Adlon Hotel - Splendid - better than any european hotel I ever saw.  $3.00 a day for small room & splendid bathroom attached.  Many letter writing for me.  Went to Meffert talk about patents.  Then went to eat Flundern at Weihen Stephan's [[insertion]] Bierhaus [[/insertion]] with him.  Splendid building of Deutsche Bank finer than anything I ever saw in that line.  At the hotel Porter was [[margin]] red vertical line [[/margin]] excited on [[underlined]] account of my trunk smelling carbolic acid [[/underlined]] = Can of Varnish stock had been smash [[insertion]] smashed [[/insertion]] and contents had spread