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I calculate that this house where I only spend a few weeks a year and where Celine has been absent every year several months cost us about $15000 a year to barely run it, not including cost of food, nor automobile or chauffeur, merely on taxes (city & state), interest at 5% on assessed value, depreciation and repairs, coal, minimum cost of service and gardening, or about 5000 divided by 365 = $44.00 [[underline]] per day [[\underline]](!)
[[strikethrough]] Feb 13 (Sunday) Here all day [[/strikethrough]]
[[red underline]] Arthur [[\red underline]] came here for lunch
first went to [[red underline]] Ion[[\red underline]] to inspect place for stepping [[red underline]] tabernacle [[\red underline]] etc. then here for lunch then planned together about sails, masts etc for [[red underline]] Ion [[\red underline]] according [[red underline]] to my [[\red underline]] own plans. He is to make final drawings and specifications. My
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own project adopted practically without alterations except as to details.
Feb 13 (Sunday) Here all day.
Feb 14. Went to see Frankel and representative of Connaut[[?]] as to result of computation of [[red underline]] Tax for 1920. [[\red underline]] George Roll with me. Saw Hamman for a few minutes and spoke about Embed art. He thinks it is a dangerous precedent of letting our employees go in private enterprise.  Told him he should reserve his opinion until he sees what is really intended. [[red underline]] Our tax [[\red underline]] will be about [[red underline]] $131000. [[\red underline]] 
Lunch with George Roll at Columbia University Club then down town to meet [[red underline]] May, Swann [[\red underline]] & Fuller at office. [[red underline]] First discussed [[\red underline]] situation of transparent materials, then gear