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[[underline]] Avocet [[/underline]] arrived towards evening. We both went aboard for a while. Took supper with George at the Club. - Beautiful day
[[underline]] June 18. [[/underline]] Beautiful weather. Drove to Larchmont before luncheon.  Went aboard [[underline]] Avocet [[/underline]] watching sail race.  Got sunburnt.
[[underline]] June 19 [[/underline]] (Sunday) Rain. Kendalls here.
[[underline]] June 20. George [[/underline]] went to [[strikeout]] hospital [[/strikeout]] [[underline]] Roosevelt Hospital [[/underline]] to night to prepare for operation of [[underline]] appendicitis [[/underline]] to morrow. He was at office all day. 
[[underline]] Col. Pope [[/underline]] and his captain came to 
office to hear my log of cruise to [[underline]] Chicoutimi [[/underline]]
[[underline]] June 21. Operation successfully [[/underline]] performed on [[underline]] George [[/underline]] this morning. [[strikethrough]] At [[/strikethrough]] Doing well.  Baron G. [[underline]] de Bethune [[/underline]] called at office intends to live

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here with his family. Afternoon went to [[underline]] Avocet [[/underline]] and paid [[underline]] checks for salaries [[/underline]] and bills to [[underline]] Pattison, Wirth Munroe, and Catlow [[/underline]] the two latter up to date. Pattison up to June 15. Remained aboard till about 6 P.M.
[[underline]] June 22.  Rossi [[/underline]] back from Europe since yesterday. This morning gave short report about conditions there. [[underline]] France seems very unsatisfactory. England and Germany better [[/underline]] Reports [[underline]] from George excellent
Catlow [[/underline]] at office cashed his check and paid him 65$ extra for return fare. Evening dinner by [[underline]] Johnson Mali [[/underline]], Consul of Belgium in honor of [[underline]] Ambassador de Cartier [[/underline]] who is transferred to [[underline]] London. [[/underline]] Dinner was at University Club, about 36 guests. Made short speech