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Just 10 years ago when Celine and myself were getting further news from George who was then in England.
Went to visit W.J. [[underlined]]Matheson[[\underlined]] had talk about [[underlined]]Hoover election[[\underlined]] where we had same opinion.  [[underlined]]He is shaking as badly as ever.[[\underlined]]
[[underlined]]Nov 13[[\underlined]]  Sent telegram greetings to dinner to French Chemists at Chemists Club.  Here all day cool.  But swimming tank water is 74°F
[[underlined]]Nov. 14.[[\underlined]]  Sunny but still cool.  ION is in the ways.  Clean hull.  Left early with Caltow and colored boy Curtis.  Erected rigging while Curtis swept the deck.  There all day.  Boat looks well.  Busy day.  Had forgotten this is my [[underlined]]birthday[[\underlined]] and realised that [[underlined]]I am 65[[\underlined]] when got telegram from Brock in Chicago and from Nina
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Luckily I feel well altho every year approaches me to my finish very rapidly. - [[underlined]]I am ready![[\underlined]]
[[underlined]]Nov 15.[[\underlined]]  Caltow went out with Curtis to Tracey's boatyard to clean up ION.  I had a busy day here with paperwork.  Cool and bright & pleasant.  [[underlined]]Have published an ad in the Miami paper[[\underlined]] for a generally useful man, caretaker who can handle automobile and boats and have had a stack of answers, which it took me long time to read.  Picked out 25 of the best.  Tomorrow shall have more.
[[underlined]]Nov 16.[[\underlined]]  Went to ION in the afternoon.  The only defective part in engine is a [[underlined]]steel[[\underlined]] wire guided in a [[underlined]]brass[[\underlined]] flexible tube which has become electrolytically corroded and which would have given considerable and serious trouble if we had not discovered it.  This is the way - by lack of