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[[underlined]] May 22 [[/underlined]](Sunday) Home all day.
[[underlined]] May 23 [[/underlined]] Wire from Patteson that [[underlined]] Avocet [[/underlined]] had arrived in Charleston. Headwinds and trouble with engine Wired him $400 c/o Western Union Charleston S.C
[[underlined]] May 24. [[/underlined]] Sent $100 to [[underlined]] Rachel for Leonie [[/underlined]]. Office all day
[[underlined]] May 25 [[/underlined]] Ditto
[[underlined]] May 26. [[/underlined]] Have sent [[underlined]] $13000 more to  Jacobi [[/underlined]] as a loan
[[underlined]] May 27. [[/underlined]] Office as usually
[[underlined]] May 28. [[/underlined]] Beautiful but cool weather.[[underlined]] George is on a cruise on Pope's Houseboat [[/underline]] Sent Cable to [[underlined]] Rossi ^[[Berlin]] about laminated importations [[/underlined]] by Germans. 
Nobody at office.
[[underlined]] May 29 [[/underlined]] (Sunday) All day at home.
[[underlined]] May 28. [[/underlined]] ^[[At]] office [[underlined]] Decoration day [[/underlined]]
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[[underlined]] May 31. [[/underlined]] Decision in our favor from [[strikethrough]] Tax Com [[/strikethrough]] Tariff Commission.
[[underlined]] June 1. 1927 [[/underlined]] Wednesday. Office all day. After 6 P.M. [[underlined]] Commencement exercises at Columbia open air. [[/underlined]] Beautiful weather and beautiful sight of this open air ceremony. First time in the open. Last year not possible on account of rain storm.
[[underlined]] June 2 [[/underlined]] Office all day
[[underlined]] June 3 [[/underlined]] Ditto.
[[underlined]] June 4 [[/underlined]] Telegram that [[underlined]] Avocet [[/underlined]] arrived Norfolk 3 P.M
[[underlined]] June 5 (Sunday. [[/underlined]] At home all day reading and writing
[[underlined]] June 6. [[/underlined]] Night letter from [[underlined]] Avocet [[/underlined]] that tomorrow morning will set out for [[underlined]] Philadelphia. [[/underlined]] Lunch at [[underlined]] Century [[/underlined]] supper at U.C.
[[underlined]] June 7. [[/underlined]] At office all day
[[left margin]] X [[/left margin]][[underlined]] June 8. [[/underlined]] At office Italian professor of Genoa took him and his companion