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are coming in more and more. Tomorrow at aeronautic dinner ^[[for]] others [[red underline]] have to refuse. [[/red underline]]

Jan 12. Most of day preparing my address for Perkin Evening. Tonight went to [[red underline]] Biltmore [[/red underline]] Hotel as guest of [[red underline]] Aero Club [[/red underline]] for their tenth annual Banquet. [[red underline]] Celine and Nina [[/red underline]] joined in gallery. A big gathering. [[red underline]] Senator Dumont and Alexander Graham Bell [[/red underline]] spoke, also Peary there  Much enthusiasm. The whole big tall room filled.

Jan 13. Altho' felt somewhat tired from late homecoming spent most of day on my address. Paulus tells me [[red underline]] Waldenberger [[/red underline]] has given out again, our surmise now is that the man is [[red underline]] mentally unbalanced. [[/red underline]]

Jan 14. Spent another day writing
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and correcting my address so as to have it finally typewritten

Jan 15. Weather getting quite cold near zero F. Left early this morning with Celine and Nina in car. At 11, meeting with Geary to talk over situation at Brooklyn. Told him that in case we do not succeed in obtaining sufficiently large yields with third cell ^[[(converter)]] we can still start a [[red underline]] profitable oxalic plant, [[/red underline]] then put alongside a smaller installation for regular [[red underline]] manufacture of tartaric [[/red underline]] acid [[strikethrough]] even if this [[/strikethrough]] and study the process on a larger scale, so as to improve it by experience that even if we lost some money on that part of the process it would be amply compensated by the profit on the oxalic acid end
He made me acquainted with that man [[red underline]] Haydenheim, a typical german Jew, [[/red underline]] with