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[[in pencil]] 56 [[/in pencil]] and to [[red underline]] engage new stenographer for office [[/red underline]] as work is accumulating too much. Busy all day dictating and occasional visits to lab. [[red underline]] George [[/red underline]] out again to NY. selecting automobile. Gothelf announces that boiling [[red underline]] acetic anhydride [[/red underline]] plus [[red underline]] fused sodium [[/red underline]] acetate gives permanent color to pipe stems this tinted by this boiling mixture for about 10 minutes. This confirms my views that we must try to [[red underline]] eliminate free phenol [[/red underline]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[in pencil]] 57 [[/red pencil]] on this and transform it into a light permanent combination. Nov. 29/ Busy here dictating and directing further experiments in treated pipe stems and other subjects The new experiments confirm the first tests announced by Gothelf. [[red underline]] Gothelf [[/red underline]] came back to laboratory after supper and both we remained until 10 [[underlined superscript]] 30 [[/underlined superscript]] P.M. preparing more samples important to see further results. Nov. 30. Thanksgiving day. Gothelf here part of morning. We need [[red underline]] more stems [[/red underline]] in various ways [[end page]]