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patronize one show this afternoon - when I saw two fair boxing bouts and a tip top and very funny wrestling match between a little boy and a bear - the bear won on points
Made a second visit on the French Line Office and learned that the Rochambeau docks tomorrow at 7. A.M. - To-bed then to look fresh and amiable - for Margaret -
Monday November 4 -
Dull-foggy day. and no strong likelihood that the Rochambeaux would come up on this tide - but nevertheless I arose at 5.15 and at 6.30 arrived at the dock where a few Gendarms stood about presently joined by two American officers - one of whom knew me. he was Major Newman. who had lunched with Miss Wilson and me, and a man named Harper in Washington - when I had been summoned to go there to talk over its proportion of making the Inaugural ceremonies more artistic and significant
The Major had been summoned and taken literaly out of the dug out. by Pershing to be in attendance on Miss Wilson - and represent the Army, to meet her. and be attached to her party -
We soon learned that the ship would'nt come up until late afternoon - so he invited me to breakfast with him which I did. I took him to see Mr. Scott who told him of the plans made for Miss Wilson and that thousands of soldiers were expecting to hear her. in the next 5 days - The Major listened - and merely suggested that the lady might want a few days rest before she started in on the work -- Scotts answer (guided by what we had learned from New York to the effect that she did'nt want to be treated as the daughter of the President - but as an ordinary Y worker

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Margaret Woodrow Wilson