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Dec 9. Feel [[red underlined]] worn out [[/red underlined]] and old and mentally depressed. If I only could get aboard of my boat in Florida. [[red underlined]] Disgusted with everything and myself [[/red underlined]] in particular.
Dec 10. Went to see Hamman to confer about [[red underlined]] bonus [[/red underlined]] and special compensation of officers etc. of the company. Also signed document for the sale of [[red underlined]] 
$500000 of Liberty [[/red underlined]] Bonds of General Bakelite Co.
Then went to [[red underlined]] Dr. Holden [[/red underlined]] to have new measurements for [[red underlined]] spectacles [[/red underlined]].
Evening met ^[[at Ritz Carlton]] [[red underlined]] Graesser [[/red underlined]] of England who furnishes us cresols. He [[red underlined]] wants to organize [[/red underlined]] Co in England for manufacture of [[red underlined]] Bakelite [[/red underlined]]. Told him same reasons why [[strikethrough]] we [[/strikethrough]] I cannot do anything at present as 
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I told to [[red underlined]] Kingsbury and to Lavalette. [[/red underlined]] His two lawyers were with him
Afterwards all had supper at Ritz Carlton Restaurant
[[red underlined]] Mrs. Greaves [[/red underlined]], the wife of his lawyer and a certain Col. Rice of Canada
Dec 11. Here dictating and bothering with endless business details which I hate to the limit.
Evening went to Columbia University Club to arrange for dinner to [[red underlined]] Mond [[/red underlined]] tomorrow
Dec 12 (Sunday) Here all day. Evening went to Col. University Club, where had invited [[red underlined]] Mond, McKee, Morgan, Zanette [[/red underlined]] and Hickson
[[red underlined]] Lewis [[/red underlined]] was late with his car then got [[red underlined]] arrested for speeding. [[/red underlined]]
Dec 13. Went to New York. Supper at University Club where met Lawson. Motor boat show uninteresting.
Dec 14. Went to New York in afternoon
Lawson here for supper tonight