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# 156 chilly, rainy and foggy all day. Dismal weather. Open fires in dining room and hall. May 22. Foggy rainy weather but [[strikethrough]] much [[/strikethrough]] warmer/. Feel much better. [[underline]] May 23 [[/ underline]] (Sunday) Beautiful weather. Afternoon went to fetch D. Baskerville and wife brought them here for supper. Then later took them home. Evening telegram announces [[red underline]] Italy has declared war to Austria.[[/red underline]] May 24. War between Italy and Austria has started and Germany has declared war on Italy too Early to office of Hooker Co to confer with [[red underline]] G. H. Hooker, Rowland and Dr.[[Blanc?]] relative to [[/red underline]] [[?amylacetate]], [[red underline ]] pentene [[?]] chloride and monochlorobenzol equipment. [[/red underline]] [[on left margin]] 8l [[letter L]] [[/left margin]] Kept at it from 10 A.M. to about 6 P.M., uninterruptedly charge 8 hours. I went alone for neffer [[?]] to mouquin [[?]] then [[end page]] [[start page]] [[symbol + on top of circle O on top of 1h]] 157 at 7 P.M. went to moves in Hippodrome. Felt very tired and depressed before. Rainy foggy day but spectacle "Ole Thunderer" and soothing organ music made me enjoy the performance very much. Home with 9 [[underline]] 50[[/underline]] P.M. May 25 [[on left margin symbol of + on top of O]] A beautiful day. Went thru belated correspondence. Charge me hour [[?]] to R.B.P. Co telephoning and Brooklyn and New York office are relative to oxalic equipment [[red underline]] Gottelf [[?]] [[/red underline]] is in Perth Amboy [[?]] again. May 26. Some hurried dictation of letters till Townsend came to prepare for tomorrow's testimony - [[red underline]] naphthalene interference [[/red underline]] between me and [[red underline]] Aylesworth [[red underline]]. Then came Seabury, Gottleff [[?]] and Thurlow for identifying letters, notebooks, samples, etc. All except Townsend