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[[red underline]] Pupin, Hutchinson, Anderson, [[Peet?]], Bridges, [[/red underline]] etc.

April 6. Letter from [[red underline]] Secretary of Navy [[/red underline]] asking me for suggestions for [[red underline]] bill for Government manufacture of nitrate [[/red underline]] to be introduced by [[red underline]] Padgett, [[/red underline]] chairman of Committee on Naval Affairs.- so spent all day on this subject. [[red underline]] George [[/red underline]] is home since last night seems taller than ever.

April 7. Had to prepare my [[red underline]] lecture [[/red underline]] for tonight. Evening went to [[red underline]] Seventh Regiment [[/red underline]] Armory where [[Patria?]] Club met. [[red underline]] Prof. Webster there. [[/red underline]] First supper. [[red underline]] Celine [[/red underline]] with me.
Big building with many rooms, paintings of militia men in [[red underline]] Uniforms [[/red underline]] everywhereͯ ^[[All Militia]] 
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ͯMilitia eager to show uniform! [[/symbol and annotation]]
What strikes me most is to see
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so [[red underline]] many uniforms. [[/red underline]] What a difference [[red underline]] with real Army or Navy where I never saw a uniform at Army and Navy [[/red underline]] Club. Gives me the impression of [[red underline]] Opera-Bouffe soldiers. [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] Dr. Alfred Meyer the [[/strikethrough]] First a supper, many women of undecided age. Next to me Col. [[red underline]] Lydecker. Mr. Tansley seems more loquacious than profound. [[/red underline]] After supper my address before a well filled room. [[red underline]] Dr. Alfred Meyer [[/red underline]] and his daughter there. Drove back with Nina and Miss Robinson and Celine and Webster who stays at Snug Rock till Sunday

April 8. Drove early to meeting of [[red underline]] Naval Board. [[/red underline]] All this [[strikethrough]] af [[/strikethrough]] before lunch time. Rains. Lunched with [[red underline]] Webster and Miller Reese Hutchinson [[/red underline]] who invited us at Engineers