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[[underline]] Sept 13. [[/underline]] (Sunday)  Ditto
[[underline]] Sept 14. [[/underline]]  Preparing for details of next Director's meeting. [[red underline]] Evg supper at U.C. Judge Ordway, Bridges, Dr. Holden & William Kissam at supper. [[/red underline]]
[[underline]] Sept 15. [[/underline]]  Rossi at home with a cold, Swan in Bloomfield: Meeting with Redman and George concerning proposed arrangement from [[red underline]] Rogers Paper Co [[/red underline]] tried to show them the unforeseen danger by [[red underline]] entering into too broad an agreement, unless we decide to stop ourselves our paper mill and all the expectated developments thereof. - Another way would be to make a new company where Rogers and ourselves would bring in our respective assets, [[/red underline]] ours [[red underline]] consisting of our paper mill [[/red underline]] and [[red underline]] research and patents, [[/red underline]] theirs ?? Even [[red underline]] this plan is difficult [[/red underline]] to carry [[red underline]] out in a simple way. George B [[/red underline]] finally suggested as a more
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appropriate way to [[red underline]] limit our arrangement with them to one or two well defined subjects. [[/red underline]] For instance our flexible varnish covering for coating their unsized paper in the making of imitation leather.
[[strikethrough]] Sept 16 [[/strikethrough]] Told to [[red underline]] Turkington and Redman [[/red underline]] of the [[red underline]] absurdity of publishing our ^[[U.S]] pending patents on oil soluble resins and varnishes [[/red underline]] in [[strikethrough]] countries like [[/strikethrough]] European countries including such countries as [[red underline]] Belgium, France, Italy! [[/red underline]] thus divulging everything to competition and infringers [[red underline]] long before the U.S patents [[/red underline]] require publication.
[[left margin in red]] Absurd!! [[/left margin]]
Told them of my discouragement when I see such blunders committed without asking my advice. This is murdering our best hope in the future of our enterprise where our other products submitted to fierce competition are ceasing to pay us profits.