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Celine telegraphed from San Francisco, all well. Will be here Friday.
[[underline]] May 10 [[/underline]] Drove to New York with bottled home made wine for the [[underline]] Turtle Dinner [[/underline]] which I gave at [[underline]] University Club, [[/underline]] to following friends:
                         Rushmore
x Pupin                  Taylor 
x Benedict             x Holden
x Oudin                  Newell Martin
x Ellwood Hendrick       18 in all.
  Henry de F. Baldwin    One [[underline]] big 
x Durant                 green 100 lb. turtle
  Geo Parsons            [[/underline]] was used 
  George Baekeland       for the dinner and its
x Peet                   shell, with flippers 
x Harden                 and head dressed with
x Chambers               flowers was on a side
                         table.
[[underline]] Turtle soup, turtle stew and turtle steak all [[/underline]] excellently prepared. Every [[underline]] guest carried [[/underline]] home a neat package containing [[underline]] 3 bottles [[/underline]] 
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of my [[underline]] home made wine [[/underline]] 
Everybody enjoyed the [[strikethrough]] Clu [[/strikethrough]] dinner very much. Witty speeches and general kind good humor.
[[underline]] George [[/underline]] and myself remained over night at the Club over night
[[strikethrough]] [[underline]] May 11. [[/underline]] [[/strikethrough]] ^[[underline]] May 11. [[/underline]] This afternoon [[underline]] Sanford Brown [[/underline]] told me that [[underline]] business is getting slacker in all electrical lines, principally radio and also in the motor trade hence our reduced orders for bakelite [[/underline]] Long interview with [[underline]] Hays [[/underline]] who strongly [[underline]] advises me not to buy more than 2500 shares from R&H [[/underline]] and not to offer more than [[underline]] 400$ [[/underline]] as an extreme price [[strikethrough]] May. [[/strikethrough]] 
Stayed at University Club
[[underline]] May 12. [[/underline]] Went to bank counting my bonds and make an inventory thereof. Slept at U.C
[[underline]] May 13. Celine [[/underline]] comes home this morning from her [[underline]] World's Tour [[/underline]] George at trial of [[underline]] Worden [[/underline]] case