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[[red underline]] Dring [[\red underline]] and [[red underline]] Lowe [[\red underline]] who next week are leaving to study our plants etc in America took luncheon with us (Potter & myself). In the [[red underline]] laboratory [[\red underline]] are working 3 or four men. [[red underline]] Installation [[\red underline]] is [[red underline]] modest [[\red underline]] but entirely sufficient [[red underline]] without falling into [[strikethrough]] the cos [[/strikethrough]] our costly exaggerations at Bloomfield.[[\red underline]] The whole outfit and personel makes a [[red underline]]very good impression just as did Erkner. [[\red underline]] - I am much satisfied and [[strikethrough]] ver [[/strikethrough]] much pleased [[red underline]] how much everything [[\red underline]] has advanced since [[red underline]] 1926. [[\red underline]]
[[red underline]] All credit [[\red underline]] to [[red underline]] Potter [[\red underline]] and his [[red underline]] men. [[\red underline]] Back in London well before dark. - Trip takes about 2 hours train each way.
This evg about 8 - still very bright - along some of the quieter streets of the neighborhood I noticed in a side street before a 4 storey unimpressive flat or appartment house a few people looking at an ancient style gilded coach with 2 gaily bedecked horses and a drive in glistening red & gold costume, powdered wig and three corner hat, [[strikethrough]] and two [[/strikethrough]] & [[strikethrough]] white [[/strikethrough]] breeches & white stockings and silver buckled shoes and two ditto footmen ditto clothes but coched hats same as our admirals wear but more elaborate and set across instead of fore-and-aft.
Everything in spick and span condition as if it were new since yesterday. The three men stood at respectful attention, until a [[red underline]] wide robed lady [[\red underline]] left the door. She had a tall white wig and was ceremoniously escorted to the carriage
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by the [[red underline]] two footmen. [[\red underline]] The driver jumped on his seat and the [[red underline]] two liveried footmen, [[\red underline]] jumped [[red underline]] on [[strikethrough]] rear [[/strikethrough]] the platforms[[\red underline]] on the [[red underline]] rear [[\red underline]] of the carriage and stood there [[red underline]] erect, [[\red underline]] holding themselves on straps, while the carriage went forward. A picture of centuries ago. - Looked to me at first as if it were a cinema performance. - But I found out that there was a [[red underline]] royal presentation [[\red underline]] at court today and that this was probably the coach of the Lord Mayor of London. The street was Stafford Mansions.
There is still [[red underline]] much of the old pomp [[\red underline]] left in England - Military displays and drills and changing of the watch among the guards, where the men act as automatons same as they did in the 18th century.
On the other hand I notice [[red underline]] many limping [[\red underline]] old [[red underline]] decrepit people [[\red underline]] in the better classes as well as among the poor.  Is is gout or arthritis or what?
I notice also dissemination of old little public drinking places but [[red underline]] no drunkards as in the past. [[\red underline]] Same division between public bar entrance for the less pretentious, and saloon bar or saloon lounge for the more pretentious. Most of them drinking standing. Mostly drink weak beer on draught. As the bars close from 11 A.M. to 5.30 P.M. then at 11 P.M. there is a glut of business at certain hours and to such an extent that there is no more room inside so one sees a cluster of men and women [[strikethrough]] glass and in hand, [[strikethrough]] standing glass in hand, outside the door. - They certainly have not yet learned to drink pleasantly seated as in Germany France or Continental countries, and [[red underline]] these crowded standing groups make an unpleasant effect [[\red underline]]