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178 cries, and always [[red underline]] smiles and gives little or no trouble [[/red underline]] June [[overwritten]] 21 [[/overwritten]] 20. [[red underline]] Celine [[/red underline]] and myself signed our holographic wills in presence of Golhelf, Lewis & Jim to whom the contents were read before they signed as witnesses. [[red underline]] Cornelia and her two babies arrive today. [[/red underline]] In order to make room in the house for the added little family I am going aboard the Ion. We left Spuyten Duivel about 3:30 P.M and arrived at anchor on [[red underline]] Manhasset Bay [[/red underline]] about 2½ hours later. Beautiful weather. On the way stopped to see the Typhoon at anchor a well built little ship. June [[overwritten]] 22 [[/overwritten]] 21. Went out sailing with dinghy and [[red underline]] leeboard [[/red underline]] which permits more latitude against the wind. Evening [[end page]] [[start page]] 179 [[red underline]] Townsend and his son Blake [[/red underline]] came aboard. Warm day. June [[overwritten]] 23 [[/overwritten]] 22. Another warm day 90°F in my cabin but feels comfortable altho' there is no wind. Blake came aboard for lunch. Afternoon went sailing in dinghy. Evening [[red underline]] Dr. Jacoby, [[/red underline]] professor astronomy Columbia came aboard and I visited his houseboat "Barnacle" June [[overwritten]] 24 [[/overwritten]] 23. Went to Perth Amboy. Prof Jacoby was kind enough to drive me to station. At Perth Amboy ([[red underline]] Townsend, [[/red underline]] Barret and Davis accompanied me) I suggested to Townsend and the others to make a molding mixture of [[black underline]] graphite [[/black underline]], [[red underline]] bakelite and powdered metals for dynamo brushes [[/red underline]] which idea seemed to interest [[red underline]] Townsend [[/red underline]] so order was given to start experiments after the expert on carbon brushes of Carbide Co had met Rossi