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[[preprinted]] 154 [[/preprinted]] 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. [[end page]] [[start page]] [[preprinted]] 155 [[/preprinted]] [[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