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met him at [[underline]] Schweitzer [[/underline]] His wife a tall, white haired lady too appears a sensible woman who makes a rather good impression.  [[underline]] Duisberg's [[/underline]] boy looks sickly and pale, poor fellow has some constitutional trouble with one of his legs. His wife looks good and simple but insignificant he after all is the dominating personality. They all wanted to see my samples ^[[of bakelite]] after lunch and seemed quite interested. Stayed at table till about 3:30 P.M then I conferred with Prof [[strikethrough]] Knoffler [[/strikethrough]] Kloepfel who is patent attorney of Baeyer & Co. He is a friend of [[underline]] Schweitzer [[/underline]] so are all the men of Elberfeld. There seems to be two factions here. The Levenhusians and the 
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Elberfeldians. [[underline]] Duisberg told me they [[underline]] have lost many hundred dollars already with Eichengrüns work on acetate of Cellulose or Cellon and he seemed to infer very bluntly that there was little hope of doing something on account of the high cost [[underline]]  Met also a certain Dr  Schmidt of Elberfeld also friend of [[underline]] Schweitzer [[underline]] who seemed rather unsociable and soon withdrew I was told afterwards ^by [[Quincke?]]^ he had fever and felt ill hence his behavior. His appearance reminded me somewhat of that unpleasant cuss Gebhardt that friend of Wiechmann. Director Ott was much more friendly and showed me a hollow flanged cylinder made of bakelite or better paper impregnated of bakelite
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