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[[symbol of circle topped by cross in top left margin with note]] 2 hours R.BP. Co
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They seemed both interested very much. Porter asked me why I had not sent in my bill for retainer. Told him would do so. Charge [[black underline]] 2 hours [[/black underline]] Then went to University Club
Supper with Mershon and a certain M. Bowdoin a lawyer. All about the war and Belgium. Home with [[strikethrough]] 4 [[/strikethrough]] 10:45 P.M.
The [[red underline]] woods in the Palisades [[/red underline]] across the river [[red underline]] were afire [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] in many places making a long line of big flames.
[[black underline]] Nov. 5. [[/black underline]] Most of day dictating letters
Evening met [[red underline]] Byron Goldsmith [[/red underline]] for dinner by appointment at Delmonico. I asked him whether [[red underline]] Wiechman [[/red underline]] told the truth when he claims that he went to see Goldsmith for arranging a combination of all patents. Goldsmith says yes [[strikethrough]] but [[/strikethrough]] and that he had answered [[red underline]] Wiechman [[/red underline]]
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he would not oppose himself to such an arrangement provided it were acceptable.
[[vertical note in left margin in red pencil]] Wiechman [[/vertical note]]
[[red underline]] Does not think much of Wiechmann's [[/red underline]] abilities. Says [[red underline]] had him as a tutor [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] at [[/strikethrough]] Columbia and [[red underline]] all the students made fun of him and [[strikethrough]] po [[/strikethrough]] took special pleasure in trapping him with questions he could not answer and which displayed his ignorance. [[/red underline]]
Goldsmith says also has been approached by [[red underline]] Redman [[/red underline]] Group but that those people have an amount of [[red underline]] exaggerated self importance which [[overwritten]] seems [[/overwritten]] looks extraordinary. [[/red underline]] I told him that if in the interference proceedings he comes up on top we shall be glad to make suitable arrangements with him. He says [[red underline]] Zinsser [[/red underline]] has offered him for $7500 the controlling interest in [[red underline]] Phenoform [[/red underline]] Corporation.