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172 [[red underline]] Forest fires and Everglades [[/red underline]] burning and send much smoke April 17/ [[underline]] Sunday. [[/underline]] All day here. April 18. No less than 24 letters in first mail! Wired George approving to start [[red underline]] grind stone patent suit [[/red underline]] after reading his letter of today. Good news from [[red underline]] Johnson & Johnson [[/red underline]] who are starting [[red underline]] 10000 yards [[/red underline]] a day for their new plasters and raincoasts coated with Bakelite flexible varnish George also report [[red underline]] Bloomfield [[/red underline]] succeeded in making much more rapid molding compounds. Mailed Celine's 1930 dividend sheet for her tax returns to Segal in Miami. One [[red underline]] large [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] cherri [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] Anona Cherrymoya fruit planted 4 years ago have an excellent ripe pinkish [[/red underline]] fruit weighing over 2 lb. My radio is out of order since Saturday afternoon and [[end page]] [[start page]] 173 house feels as quiet as a morgue. Hired a new one. This afternoon went [[red underline]] out alone in sloop to the shores of Biscayne Key. [[/red underline]] [[underline]] April 19. [[/underline]] Good strong rainfall of almost one inch this afternoon. Much needed! Studied question of transfer of my stock to family [[underline]] April 20. [[/underline]] Sprayed mangoes. [[red underline]] Hugh Matheson [[/red underline]] visited. [[red underline]] Germany sends a preemptory cable asking our decision about French contract. [[/red underline]] Wired to George for copy of that letter Feb. 9 to which they refer and which was never submitted to me. Evening bothered again by that ^[[former]] Canadian grindstone mfr who is on his uppers and wants some job or another. [[underline]] April [[strikethrough]] 23 [[/strikethrough]] 21. [[/underline]] [[red underline]] Dr. Meyers. [[/red underline]] English entomologist in Trinidad was here on a visit with Dr. [[red underline]] Fairchild [[/red underline]] and his daughter [[red underline]] Nancy Bell [[/red underline]] [[underline]] April 22. [[/underline]] Wired to office text of cable I intend to send to Germany, telling that my paramount object of my intended visit there, undertaken at great inconvenience to me, is [[red underline]] to settle Surcouf situation [[/red underline]]