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160 Yacht on the River [[underline]] Sept 11. [[/underline]] Restful day in [[underline]] Philadelphia [[/underline]] while others go to Edgewood Arsenal. Afternoon went to [[underline]] Washington at Cosmos Club. [[/underline]] [[underline]] Sept. 12. Cosmos Club [[/underline]] meeting place of [[underline]] Foreign visitors [[/underline]] Bright weather. Evening [[strikethrough]] crowded [[/strikethrough]] reception in crowded apartment of [[underline]] Dr. Seydel. [[/underline]] At Luncheon had a large table of [[underline]] Foreigners [[/underline]] as my guests. Afternoon Tea and reception at [[underline]] Cosmos Club. Robert and Emil Mond [[/underline]] there. lively conversation with them. [[underline]] Emil Mond reminded me how in 1908 I showed him [[/underline]] small piece of [[underline]] Bakelite [[/underline]] [[end page]] [[start page]] 161 which I carried around in my pocket. [[underline]] Sept 13. [[/underline]] Met the [[underline]] anonymous advertiser [[/underline]] who wanted position with a chemical firm in their [[underline]] patent department [[/underline]] he gave his card [[underline]] Chester Tietig,[[/underline]] Division 6 Patent office, [[underline]] Assistant Examiner under Lewers [[/underline]] Chemical department. After awhile I find out he is the same man whom I met a couple of years ago and whom I referred to [[underline]] Wyeth [[/underline]] ^[[Wieth]] who got much embarrassed when [[underline]] Tietig [[/underline]] gave him a list of titles of [[underline]] paper inventions about uses of bakelite all concocted by sheer imagination and [[strikethrough]] more [[/strikethrough]] no actual work and [[/underline]]