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8/ After a specified time [[underlined]] Bakelite Corporation has the right to purchase for cash the present stock of B.G. [[/underlined]] at the rate of 150 marks per share. - (Or is this payment to be made out of accumulated funds?  
All this seems eminently satisfactory, and is a splendid way of celebrating my [[underlined]] 63d birthday [[/underlined]] I wired back [[underlined]] that all conditions are acceptable to me. [[/underlined]]
Has been raining dogs and cats and blowing half a gale all night. Kept [[underlined]] working in my room at cables and contracts [[/underlined]] till (Sunday) 
[[underlined]] Nov. 14 [[/underlined]] at 1 A.M. which as far as I remember from my mother was the [[underlined]] exact hour of my birth. [[/underlined]] This morning had visit of Mr. [[underlined]] Hugh Chester Bell [[/underlined]] a relative of [[underlined]] Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, [[/underlined]] who wants
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to go to United States to do chemical research work and [[underlined]] wants advice. He makes very good impression and his face reminds strikingly of the Alexander Bell family. [[/underlined]] Long chat at luncheon.
Afternoon got telephone from [[underlined]] Ferguson [[/underlined]] wants to talk to me privately so went to his hotel. Wanted [[underlined]] 1800£ royalty cancelled as liability [[/underlined]] as we never wanted to accept it and thus put them at a disadvantage. Agreed to [[underlined]] cancel half. [[/underlined]] He also wants to be compensated [[underlined]] personally [[strikethrough]] at the [[/strikethrough]] 500£ [[/underlined]] for the fact that we do not take him in as director and that in so doing he [[/underlined]] loses more than his two partners who have solely money at stake. I [[underlined]] accepted [[/underlined]] after some [[strikethrough]] wran [[/strikethrough]] discussion. He wants to be able to subscribe [[underlined]] 10000£ [[/underlined]] in new company. Told him that for reasons of our own which I might explain some other time and specially
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The reason is that he is an [[underlined]] employee [[/underlined]] of General Electric Co of Great Britain. [[/vertical annotation]]