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from them.[[vertical red line in margin]] Says ^[[Says]][[red underline]]wants me connected permanently with his enterprise as a director or under retainer or otherwise. [[/underline]] At 4 P.M visit of Mr[[red underline]] [[Raikes?]] [[/underline]] an englishman just arrived and who calls himself director of the [[red underline]] Damard [[/underline]] Company.  Had a rather vague and insinuating conversation belittling our patents or insinuating things to that effect.  Tried to make us believe that it would be better if we did not enter each others field etc.  I told him that if they could
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make a lacquer which does not infringe our patents what would prevent others from doing likewise and that if they made it infringing our patents we would take care of that.  Under circumstances I do not see how we can stop competition by making an arrangement with them.  He looks rather clumsy and seems to want to insinuate more than he knows. Jones called to Buffalo [[Banalo?]] has trouble with his [[red underline]] bedstead varnish [[/underline]] on account of wrong thinner  Jones reports also that cans opened at American 
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