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man, altho' quite intelligent. Undoubtdetly devoured by [[strikethrough]] vanity and [[/strikethrough]] egotism and disappointed vanity. He was very polite and pleasant to be except that at the end he said he [[underlined]] was the enemy of the Naval Board and intended to attack it whenever he could. [[/underlined]] He ran down almost everybody particularly Edison, then [[underlined]] Alexander Graham Bell [[/underlined]] etc. He told me had no grudge against me and that everybody who had mentioned my name spoke about me in the most culogious[[guess]] terms. Drove home about 6 P.< all together.
Jan. 23 (Sunday) Here all day. Spent morning dictating
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belated letters on [[?]] dine
[[strikethrough]] Aft [[/strikethrough]] towards evening went to University Club where took supper with [[underlined]] Anthony [[/underlined]] and [[underlined]] Courtland Parker. [[/underlined]] and drove car alone with Nina and Mr & Mrs Rose.
Jan 24. Went to New York. our [[underlined]] net profits are about $229.000 [[/underlined]] which is quite close to figure [[?]]ted by me. I went to see Sam T. Peter to tell him about it and show him balance account for 1915. He agrees with me it will be best to put a [[underlined]] generous amount in reserve and declare a 10% dividend. [[/underlined]] I am astonished myself [[underlined]] how [[strikethrough]] little [[/strikethrough]] indifferent I have become to the financial success of our enterprise and how little I [[?]] money since I have more than enough for our modest wants. [[/underlined]]