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110 [[underline]] delayed their engagements of Townsend. Jan.27. [[/underline]] Very busy morning Edward F. Chandler here to try to interest me in [[strikethrough]] his [[/strikethrough]] patents for electrolytic deposition of cellulose from its solutions. Law Voge also here. At 1 P.M Luncheon meeting of [[underline]] Institute International Education at Century Club. Dr. Pritchett [[/underline]] presides he is leaving for [[underline]] California [[/underline]] has undergone lately serious operation and has not entirely recovered others present: [[underline]] Morgenthau, John Bassett Moore, smiling as ever and fully recovered from his late illness, [[/underline]] goes back to the International Court at [[underline]] the Hague; [[/underline]] Paul [[underline]] Munroe, Stephen Duggan, Stokes, Ames. [[/underline]] [[strikethrough]] Law [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined]] Jan 28. [[/underline]] Afternoon went to meeting Faculty Pure Science 2:10 P.M. Nicholas Murray Butler presiding. Jan 29. Busy morning. Evening [[end page]] [[start page]] 111 went for dinner at Century Club. Edwin [[strikethrough]] LeFebre [[/strikethrough]] [[underline]] Lefevre, James Kendall, Hendrick [[/underline]] there. Brought [[underline]] some of my wine. Dr. Alexis Carrel [[/underline]] later in the [[strikethrough]] smoking [[/strikethrough]] [[/underline]] Graham library. Very enjoyable evening. [[underline]] Jan 30 [[/underlined]] (Sunday) [[underlined]] Busy [[/underline]] morning making final calculations for my tax [[underline]] tax returns for 1926. [[/underline]] Remains to make my State Tax returns. [[underline]] Jan 31. [[/underline]] Got a letter from [[underline]] Petersen whereby he announces that he [[underline]] wants to leave [[/underline]] as he has found an easier job near at home. [[note in left margin]] Petersen [[/note]] [[underline]] I am disgusted at his cowardly conduct, after I have kept him doing next to nothing all summer. When he left me here and [[strikethrough]] acct [[/strikethrough]] let me buy his ticket for Miami [[/underline]] it was of course understood that he accepted to stick to his job till the [[underline]] end of the Florida season. [[/underline]] I feel much disgusted with [[underline]] boats in general on account of crews. [[/underline]] Went to bank to get Geo B. [[strikethrough]] ce [[/strikethrough]]