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April 15. [[red underline]] Brickenstein [[/red underline]] at office.- Feel very tired and nervous, and Brickenstein to bother me with that man Van Esem who has tried to register the name "Bakeland" for his pearls. [[strikethrough]] Then Seabury and Townsend here. [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] Seabury seems unbalanced [[/red underline]]
April 16. Went to office. [[red underline]] George Roll bought a house. [[/red underline]] All afternoon with [[red underline]] Redman [[/red underline]] on several pending matters. Told him to go ahead with a building in [[red underline]] Bloomfield [[/red underline]] for his lab, but to make it so that it could ultimately be converted for the transparent department
April 17. Long candid talk to Seabury in presence of Townsend. Told [[red underline]] Seabury [[/red underline]]
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[[red underline]] he has no business management [[/red underline]] in his factory, neglects his duties, are leaving them to others who are not suited and that he is more in condition of a
^[[red "X"]] [[red underline]] sick man [[/red underline]] 
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his father [[/annotation in margin]]
who does not realize his own ^[[serious]] condition
That I suggest to put whole matter in hand of [[red underline]] Hays and Sanford Brown [[/red underline]] and hear their further suggestions.
That I am willing to lose my own share in the loss if it can benefit Seabury but that I doubt whether anything can be done to patch up further the situation. [[red underline]] Townsend [[/red underline]] present at whole interview and when I asked his opinion he answered: [[red underline]] "I wish some friend would talk to me on my own affairs the way Dr. Baekeland has [[/red underline]]