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[[underlined]] Oct 1. 1927 [[/underlined]] At [[strikethrough]] th [[/strikethrough]] Hotel Daniele hotel met [[underlined]] Dr. M. O. Foster (former husband of the daughter of W H Nichols) now of the Indian Institute of Science [[/underlined]] at [[underlined]] Bangalore S. India. [[/underlined]] _ We were both glad to meet. He says he likes India very much and has just taken a vacation is leavg today, by an Italian ship for [[underlined]] India [[/underlined]] So I went in his [[underlined]] Gondola [[/underlined]] to the ship which seems very comfortable.
Afterward went on visit to [[underlined]] San Marco [[/underlined]] Church then the chamber of the [[underlined]] Palace of the Doges, [[/underlined]] very very interestig and really the two [[underlined]] most impressive things [[/underlined]] in [[underlined]] Venice [[/underlined]] - See Baedeker. Large number of Legionnaires now guided by Italians
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who explain everything in English. One very large painting. - the guide says the largest in the world - [[underlined]] represents Heaven and Hell [[/underlined]] When the painter started the painting he included amongst the figures living in heaven [[underlined]] his recently acquired wife. [[/underlined]] Three years later when his painting was about finished he [[strikethrough]] just [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined]] painted her in hell. [[/underlined]] Went to U.S. Counsel for cablegrams. Long Gondola trip to get there; first thru Grand Canal then thru smaller side canals until finally landed on the [[underlined]] stone steps of the Consulate [[/underlined]] This water - surrounded consulate where one gets by the water-wagon Gondola [[underlined]] ought to gladden [[/underlined]] the [[underlined]] heart of Volstead [[/underlined]] 
Bought [[underlined]] some glass [[/underlined]] and  

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