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resentment against Elon Hooker even on the part of his best friends like [[red underline]] Sage [[/red underline]] and [[red underline]] Remington [[/red underline]].  He bothers the life out of them at his meetings by taking up their time with technical details which they do not understand nor care to understand.  Result is they all run away. [[red underlined]] Remington [[/red underline]] was the only one who remained with us.  [[red underline]] They all ask me to become a permanent director, specially Elon Hooker insists but I refuse because [[/red underline]] I know [[red underline]] how it will end. 
[[/red underline]] Remained with Bush till 6 P.M. Charge 6 hours. 
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Took supper at Mouquin met there a certain Dr. Jarrett who knew Piffard and Woodruff and a certain Mr. Parsons who knew Aspinwall, and drove [[strikethrough]] home [[/strikethrough]] with them to station.
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Aug 13. Busy day here [[red underline]] with carpenters [[/red underline]] etc and dictating and telephoning.  Remained home all day, enjoyed the restful solitude of it.  Made some progress on my address for Seattle. [[Starting?]] outfit has arrived

Aug 14. Rather sultry weather.  [[red underline]] Peterson [[/red underline]] says [[red underline]] boat will be in water Tuesday. [[/red underline]] My rowboat arrived yesterday.  Yesterday Spent time designing ornamental hinge for new plate glass door [[strikethrough]] at [[/strikethrough]] for dining room.  Remained home till late in afternoon.  [[red underline]] Unpleasant news that British government prohibits shipping cresol we have ordered.  [[/red underline]] Spent most of morning drawing up affidavit to be approved by [[underlined]] british counsul. [[/underlined]] stating uses and purposes of bakelite.  [[red underline]] Rossi [[/red underline]] tells us we have anyway [[red underline]] Cresol enough to last us from 8 to [[/red underline]] 10 months.  Little Buick which has been out of commission since 

Transcription Notes:
Elon Huntington Hooker (1869-1938) ran the Hooker Electrochemical Co. Mouquin's was a French restaurant in lower Manhattan. Dr. Baekeland liked his "little Buick" car because usually his larger Stearns touring car was being repaired.