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Company has written to [[underlined in red]] Nikolas [[/underlined in red]] that they intend to sue them on their patent - New complications in sight. - Dictated some short letters feverish haste. then a few supplies then finally - how glad am I. - on board of the [[strikethrough]] Wavelet. [[/strikethrough]] Cygnet. [[underlined in red]] Celine [[/underlined in red]] left for Vassar this morning to visit [[underlined in red]] Nina [[/underlined in red]] who is just there now one week.
[[written vertically in red in left margin]] Cruise to Florida [[/marginal entry]]
Lovely day - fine beginning for this trip. on which I am starting alone. - [[underlined in red]] What a rest it will be! [[/underlined in red]]
The new Davitts with dinghy were tried and found all right 
Left at 12:20 AM. Unusually smooth water, no wind, splendid weather. Arrived at dock of our factory at [[underlined in red]] Perth Amboy [[/underlined in red]] at 5:15 P.M. or about five hour's run. [[underlined in red]] Rossi [[/underlined in red]] there, spent evening with him

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going over factory matters - [[underlined in red]] Foersterling [[/underlined in red]] joined us for awhile.  [[underlined in red]] Rossi [[/underlined in red]] tells me that their [[underlined in red]] new vacuum drives [[/underlined in red]] work very well and allow them to make good molding mixtures [[underlined in red]] of excellent dielectric properties from powdered mixtures which have been lying [[/underlined in red]] about for a year. This is a further confirmation that the claims of [[underlined in red]] Aylworth and Redman [[/underlined in red]] - claiming  superior virtues for products made from [[underlined]] anhydrous [[/underlined in red]] materials are all [[underlined in red]] unwarranted. [[/underlined in red]] The question is not with [[underlined in red]] how much water you start but [[strikethrough]] with [[/strikethrough]] how much remains in your [[/underlined in red]] product after it is finished.
Oct 8 (Sunday) Tied up at our dock over night. It was pretty cold last night altho' I slept in a woolen sleeping bag. Beautiful sunny mild morning. Later on quite hot - 80°F. Left shortly before noon then thru two drawbridges 

[[notation in left margin]] Had conference with [[underlined in red]] Rossi and Lawrence [[/underlined in red]] as to future research worth laying outͯ
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ͯprogram for improving [[underlined in red]] 600 F [[/underlined in red]] by making solutions without excess of phenol or cresol and dissolving in alcohol to which add Reychler alcoholic solution of paraform. [[/marginal notation]]

Transcription Notes:
A davit is a crane-like device used for raising or lowering a dinghy or cargo onto a larger vessel. Instructions say to use the word 'underlined' in brackets when words are underlined in text. Seems appropriate because indicates past tense.