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but keeps on complaining that no letters nor money have reached her.
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I feel tired, uninterested in my work and sad and irritable. I wish I were far away to hide my gloom. I feel profoundly discouraged and fear my own state of mind. This is a sad way of approaching the Christmas season. but I cannot help it
Dec. 25. 1914. Swan reports [[red underline]] Redman [[/red underline]] group is distributing [[strikethrough]] ly [[/strikethrough]] lies about our patent situation and is doing everything to persuade Westinghouse company to substitute their material for us.- All [[red underline]] this brings more patent litigation in prospect and possibility [[/red underline]] of losing each month $15000 of sales.- Stayed home till evening. This is [[red underline]] the gloomiest saddest Christmas I ever had and I suppose millions of people all over the world feel the [[/red underline]]
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same way. I went to New York towards evening. Took long walk to University Club and came back with 9:50 P.M train
It is very cold.
[[black underline]] Dec. 26. [[/black underline]] In all day. Towards evening went to 59 st and walked to University Club then [[red underline]] Public Library. [[/red underline]] Was astounded to find so many visitors there at about 10 P.M. Magnificent educational effort. Bitterly cold.
Dec 27 1914. (Sunday) Home all day. Read the newspapers and magazines all morning then dictated all afternoon from by belated letters.
Dec.28. Dictated all morning.
Afternoon wrote a letter to Professor [[red underline]] Joji Sakurai [[/red underline]] of the University of Tokio to thank him for his kindnesses during my visit to Japan.
Dec 29. Thick fog. and frozen slippery roads. Afternoon went to Brooklyn