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Lorenz Byck to start experiments  of [[red underline]] resins + hexamethylenetetramine so as to harden them. [[/red underline]]
Dec.4. (Sunday) Beautiful cold day. Spent all day planning [[treeplanting?]] for garden. Saw some rather good samples of transparent light colored Bakelite made with Hexa. quiet restful day. 
Dec.5. Must hurry up now my hexamethylenetetramine patents very busy with all this all morning. On coming in [[smear]] New York [[/smear]] New York office I find [[red underline]] May is ill [[/red underline]]. Has a cold. Armstrong [[strikethrough]] Dec.6.[[/strikethrough]] lining [[red underline]] Snug Rock [[/red underline]] with asbestos after my designs. 
Dec.6. Several inches snow [[red underline]] May [[/red underline]] ill. Dec.7. Went early to New York [[?]] to Greystone thru snow. Meeting Directors of [[red underline]] G.B.Co. Peters & Williams [[/red underline]]
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there. [[red underline]] May [[/red underline]] is ill. Explained subject of Dyers visit. Started meeting. Dyer came. Then I find we misunderstood each other. He wants to pay $5000 for offer then purchase for [[red underline]] $20000 perpetual license. [[/red underline]] I tell him we want $20.000 a year! Some discussion [[red underline]] finally [[/red underline]] agreed will write him a letter before next Wednesday. He goes to Montreal he says. 
Dec.8. [[strikethrough]] Got [[/strikethrough]] this morning received the [[red underline]] John Scott Medal of the City of Philadelphia [[/red underline]] on recommendation of Franklin Institute "for the most deserving". Big handsome bronze medal and diploma [[red underline]] for Bakelite [[/red underline]] In the afternoon had interview with [[red underline]] Rossi [[/red underline]] at office. Also two visitors, engineers friends of Rossi Got irritated at stupidity, carelessness, incompentency of stenographer 
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