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[[red underline]] Patchogue. [[/red underline]]  Hotel about same style as Prospect house in Shelter Island.
The lawn fronts [[red underline]] the Great South Bay, [[/red underline]] nearby there is a bathing establishment.
July 23 [[red]] ! [[/red]] [[red underline]] More good news from front. [[/red underline]] Another hot day. None [[red underline]] of the rooms I have had thus far in any of the hotels are half as cool [[/red underline]] or comfortable as my own room at home.
Went out [[red underline]] sailing in a cat - [[/red underline]] boat with [[red underline]] an old Captain 72 years old, [[/red underline]] who told me yarns of yore.
After lunch drove to New York [[red underline]] over burning hot roads, [[/red underline]] but the roads are excellent for driving.
Arrived at University Club about 6P.M.  This is the [[red underline]] first real comfortable [[/red underline]]
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[[red underline]] cool place since [[strikethrough]] last sat [[/strikethrough]] [[/red underline]] I left home.  After supper drove home and was glad to [[red underline]] enjoy my own [[/red underline]] room.
July 24. [[red underline]] More good news [[/red underline]] from Western front.  
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A letter from [[red underline]] Celine [[/red underline]] in the Adirondacks.  Tells me of [[red underline]] Nina's infatuation of a contemptible Hungarian Count, called Kalman [[strikethrough]] CS [[/strikethrough]] Csaki. Nina [[/red underline]] is so selfish and so [[red underline]] stupidly vanitous that [[/red underline]] she wants to listen to nobody and forget that [[red underline]] her greatest and only friend is her mother. She has given us trouble ever since she was a child. [[/red underline]] With her selfishness and her headstrong vanity she is bound to run in trouble all the time.  It is a disgrace that at a time when her brother and all our brave soldiers in Europe are pledging