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me a long letter expressing [[red underline]] anxiety about her husband's health. [[/red underline]] She has been told that he [[red underline]] has the same ailment as Townsend. [[/red underline]] She says [[red underline]] Redman [[/red underline]] relies so much on my advice etc and wants me to write to him. Instead I wrote a long answer to her and wrote it in such a way that she can show the letter to Redman himself. - Howard here this afternoon is ready to lay up his boat until next year
[[underline]] April 19 - Sunday. [[/underline]] Letter writing all day. Evening Fairchilds here
[[underline]] April 20. [[/underline]] Letters!--Letters!!
[[red underline]] Lawrence Byck here, [[/red underline]] before returning North. - Says he would like to be transferred to Patent Dept if he has to change his present position. - Told him he should see George after his return and I would write to George in meantime. 
Afternoon Dewhurst, [[strikethrough]] I [[/strikethrough]]
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[[red underline]] Income Tax examiner [[/red underline]] here on account of Celine income tax of 1930. - He convinced me that instead of reducing her tax she has to pay several thousand more on account of the R&H preferred I gave her and for which she received cash.
[[underline]] April 21. [[/underline]] Left on the [[red underline]] ION for Elliott Key with Drs. Fairchild and Cooke [[/red underline]] to locate there a special date palm only to be found on that Island. Had [[red underline]] Murray and Sands [[/red underline]] for crew and the botanists had two assistants. Excellent weather. Hacked our way by means of [[red underline]] machete [[/red underline]] thru the dense Jungle, over the trying rocky surface until we emerged on the Ocean side Beach, which resembles much the similar beach of Sands Key. One abandoned windowless dark unpainted frame bdg with cement rainwater

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Realized that Leo Baekeland's boat was named ION. On previous pages I thought he was writing 10N as in 10 "North"