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130 experience to become the unwilling tools of [[red underlined]] merely money interests. Fortunately George expresses himself as not in favor [[/red underlined]] altho' he wants to avoid curtness or impolite refusal. [[red underlined]] If George were not such an exceptional man I would not care so much, but my aim is to keep this enterprise which I have founded and guided along higher lines of aims than a mere commercial money [[/red underlined]] enterprise, run by bankers or so called financiers who in their greed smugly think themselves the superiors to able chemists and engineers Altho' [[red underlined]] I have long expected such a step [[/red underlined]] I dislike very much to be confronted by it: I should be astonished if Karpen and his brothers, to whom money always looks bigger than to [[end page]] [[start page]] 131 me, might not influence the others to look favorably on the project. If I sell out it will mean an enormous change in my plans, [[underlined]] my hopes, my aims for George and my grandchildren. [[/underlined]] Celine and Cornelia arrived this evening in airplane from Havana. [[underlined]] March 15 [[/underlined]] Feel rather disturbed about ^[[George's]] news of yesterday. [[vertical annotation in left margin in red]] Dicky & Celine [[/left margin]] [[underlined]] March. 16 [[/underlined]] Went out sailing in Pram this morning. On my return found Peters (of Mantoloking his wife and a Belgian and his wife as visitors. They came in motorcar from New York. Afternoon had very pleasant sail in Pram with [[red underlined]] Dickie and little Celine, [[/red underlined]] took them out to the sail races, then visited Col. Munroe's home etc. They were both very happy Evening supper [[strikethrough]] Nina [[/strikethrough]] Nina Cornelia and George Roll as guests [[red underlined]] eating oysters collected by me this morning [[/red underlined]]