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*"Tinsel Lady" by Channing Pollock
"How I Captured Hauptmann" by James J. Finn and D. Thomas Curtin.
*"The President's Mystery story" by Rupert Hughes Sammuel Hopkins Adams, Anthony Abbot Rita Weiman, S.S. Van Dine, John Erskine
"The Moon's Our Home" Faith Baldwin
"Love Can Happen" by Joseph Hergesheimer

[[underlined]] Tuesday, February 4, 1936 [[/underlined]]
Dick was out in the morning & away for lunch. I wrote some letters and read. After lunch I went to the P.O. & bought some of the current issue of stamps. The ones I got are - in order of issue - 1/2, 1, 2, 2 1/2, 1/, 2/, 3p, 6p, 4p, 1 1/2. Then I went looking for stamp buyers. I found one - old fellow by the name of Chapman - it will be difficult to do business with him.
Went to the library & got a book.
"Mayerling" - the Love & Tragedy of a Crown Prince by Claude Anet. Not a bad book at all. Throws some light on the suicide of Rudolph of Hapsburg. Must look up Countess Larisch's Memoirs when I get back to U.S. She tells her part - if I remember correctly.
While in the library I took time to
 
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look at a few magazines. In "The Queen" of January 1st 1936 I found this:
"An Interesting Legend" 
"Madam: I was much interested, while on a visit to the quaint town of Santo Domingo, Porto Rico, at a legend in which all the natives believe. I think it may, perhaps, be of equal interest to your readers. The rather fascinat[strikethrough]]ely[[/strikethrough]]ingly carved metal casket in my picture rests in the cathedral of the town, and is reputed to contain the ashes of the great Columbus, supposed discoverer of America. Once a year with impressive pomp this casket is opened." 
"Incidently, it is not, I believe, universally known that the actual discoverer of America was a certain Omerigo Vespuccio, after whom, as can be seen, the continent was named, and that the renowned Christopher was mistaken in his belief that he had found the new continent
Yours Faithfully 
Sarah McJames" 
Edinburgh."
As I was leaving the library Dick was just coming up on his motor so we walked home together.