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their protests about salaries of [[underline]] Schleussner, Karpen and [[/underline]] myself. Received a letter from [[underline]] Mortimer Harveyͯ [[/underline]] 
[[vertical annotation in left margin]]  ͯemployed by Edison [[/left margin]] calling my attention to an inaccuracy in my review of Edward Weston's career where I attributed the latter the achievement of having been the first in the world to build dynamos giving 90% efficiency.
Evening received a similar letter from [[underline]] Thomas A. Edison [[/underline]] accompanied by a photostat of a page of Scientific American 1880 where Weston in a letter ridiculizes Edison's statement of obtaining 90% efficiency and declares it impossible. Have immediately written to Weston so as to give the latter an opportunity to state his case.
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[[underline]] Rossi [[/underline]] has given me repeated embarrassment by not carrying out orders after he had promised to do so. I had urged him during our troubles at our phenol plant in Cleveland to immediately get in touch with [[underline]] Henry Howard, [[/underline]] who more than anyone I know of is acquainted with all the practical details of phenol manufacture and who is near at hand and has expressed to me his willingness to assist us. 
I have also urged him to see [[underline]] Ralph McKee [[/underline]] before using the [[underline]] sulphite [[/underline]] method which is patented by the latter. Yesterday [[underline]] McKee [[/underline]] told me that in an article by Kellifer where the latter describes in details with photographs, the