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[[136 in left margin]] [[margin note]] [[symbol of circle topped a cross]] [[/margin note]] products presented to Congress. Spent all afternoon and [[red underline]] portion of evening with Hookers book. [[/red underline]] Got it finally [[red underline]] corrected! [[/red underline]] Wrote a letter to Celine. [[vertical red line in margin highlights the next two sentences]] The [[red underline]] kids [[/red underline]] are [[red underline]] A 1. [[/red underline]] very serious and well behaved. [[red underline]] They probably think of mother who is absent.[[/red underline]] Oct.7. Beautiful autumn day. Dictating letters all morning. Then came Paulus. with his latest designs of cells. Kept at it till 4 P.M. Charge 5 hours [[margin note]] [[symbol of circle topped with a cross]] $50.00 [[/margin note]] Oct. 8. A very busy day [[red underline]]writing article on President Taft's Speech for Whitaker [[/red underline]] ditto revising french translation of my article etc. [[margin note]] Whitaker was then Editor of J. M. Eng. Chemistry. [[/margin note]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[137 in left margin]] After lunch I received the sad and unexpected news of the [[red underline]] death of Dr. Morris Loeb. [[/red underline]] One of the best men ever lived. I feel staggered at the news. Evans phoned me he died of pneumonia as a complication of typhoid. I can hardly think of anything else all day. I wired to Mr. [[Maussolf?]] asking to be excused from participating at dinner I had accepted for to night. [[red underline]] Fine, noble fellow that is gone! [[/red underline]] Oct. 9. Very busy all day correcting french copy of my paper and revising papers on [[black underline]] Inconqruities of american patent litigation [[/black underline]] for Whitaker's journal. Frequent interruptions by [[end page]]