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[[red underlined]] Bailey, [[/red underlined]] wife of treasurer of gas company [[strikethrough]]wanted [[/strikethrough]] sent her husband so that I might be introduced to her. She seemed witty and bright and not stupid at all; but she began by saying that she had listened with so much interest to my address and that her husband had told her [[red underlined]] that I was a chemist - but a chemist without a drug store. [[/ red underlined]] Now what could that be that a chemist without a drug store did?- This [[strikethrough]] will[[/strikethrough]] episode will give me a chance of a good [[red underlined]] popular story [[/red underlined]] on chemistry which I [[red underlined]] shall publish some day. [[/red underlined]] In all a very pleasant evening. [[red underlined]] Peniman [[/red underlined]]
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drove me back to hotel there I noticed a young man of about 21 on crutches with only one leg. He is the son of [[red underlined]] Marburg former U.S Minister in Belgium and lost his leg in french army, [[/red underlined]] and is hobling around on crutches alongside his young wife whom he wedded recently.
June 18. (Sunday) Left early in morning and arrived in New York about 1 P.M in time for lunch in Yonkers. [[red underlined]] George still ill in bed, [[/red underlined]] altho' better. At supper were here the two sons of [[red underlined]] Consul Abert Johnson [[/red underlined]] (Ghent) one who did not open his mouth, the other who made up for this by talking all the time.
June 19. Left with early train for [[red underlined]] Boston. [[/red underlined]] - rain again. Was at Lenox Hotel whence