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[[red underline]] and sings in many languages [[/red underline]] including Slavonic and [[red underline]] dutch. [[/red underline]] Speaks dutch very well, also knows difference of [[red underline]] intonation in Flemish pronunciation etc. [[/red underline]]   
A very animated informal dinner. [[red underline]] Hewitt accompanied Prince's Piano and singing [[/red underline]] on a special [[red underline]] mandolin [[/red underline]] Hewitt [[red underline]] himself has constructed [[/red underline]] with his own hands and an excellent instrument it is. Has quite a collection of various antique musical instruments and keeps them in good condition and [[red underline]] knows how to play [[/red underline]] on each of them. [[red underline]] He is a very versatile [[/red underline]] man. Mrs Hewitt and her two daughters are all splendid [[red underline]] wide awake women.   This is certainly a distinguished family. Mrs Hewitt tells me that [[/red underline]] her husband, one day on the 
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Steamboat to Seabright, disguised himself as an [[red underline]] itinerant [[strikethrough]] streel [[/strikethrough]] musician [[/red underline]] so as to demonstrate that he could make a living with his banjo and collected [[red underline]] $18.00 [[/red underline]] in one day [[red underline]] with which he regaled [[/red underline]] ^[[some of]] his friends to a great dinner.
[[black underline]] March 15. [[/black underline]]
Here all day.  Afternoon at 5:30 P.M had another interview with [[red underline]] Frank L. Dyer, [[/red underline]] quite harmonious.  
Then went for supper at ^[[Albert R.]] [[red underline]] Kerr's [[/red underline]] ^[[house]] where I sat next to [[red underline]] Dean Sage and Barnard [[/red underline]] the defeated candidate for mayor.
[[black underline]] March 16. [[/red underline]] 
Big news a [[red underline]] bloodless revolution in Russia and the Czar has been compelled to abdicate [[/red underline]] and the Duma is running [[strikethrough]] the ent [[/strikethrough]] the Government. The army has joined the revolutionist and everything seems at peace now. The new government intends to carry out the war against Germany with more energy and has arrested those of former regime who seem to be in league with