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38/ [[underline]] December 26, [[/underline]] Holiday. Am laboring under a cold, and much coughing last night. Somewhat better this morning. [[underline]] Dec 27 [[/underline]] Spent all day writing and studying. All the help is on vacation. George B. came here [[strikethrough]] ton [[/strikethrough]] this evening on a short visit, intends to leave Friday for [[red underline]] Adirondacks with Dickie, Brooksie and Celine Roll. [[/red underline]] [[underline]] December 27. [[/underline]] My cold about same as yesterday, but went to Dr. Fuller the dentist at 9 A.M. to have one gold crown put on lower molar. - Then back home and took a restful day to nurse my cold. Rainy weather. [[underline]] December 28. [[/underline]] Feel somewhat better altho coughing, and general tiredness. Dense fog envelops the garden. George left this morning for Adirondacks with Dickie, Brooksie and Celine Roll Have received a large pack of letters and pending patent applications from office to study here. But am rather at a disadvantage to give this my best thoughts. Rain. [[underline]] December 29. [[/underline]] Reviewed Foreign pending [[red underline]] patent applications. [[/red underline]] There are still about [[red underline]] 50 cases [[/red underline]] pending. I have reduced this from the former absurd number of over 400 Foreign applications permitted to be filed by the Operating Committee without even submitting me for approval during former years when [[red underline]] Redman [[/red underline]] alone decide what and where to file and the Operating Committee simply put its O.K. on his decisions [[red underline]] Most of the patents are worthless [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] by themselves others are taken in countries where there is little if any hope of commercial applications, and we have been all along [[red underline]] paying for this! [[/red underline]] [[note in left margin]] Still much coughing altho' better [[/left margin]] [[end page]] [[start page]] 39/ December 30 - 1932. At 9 A.M at dentist who [[strikethrough]] put [[/strikethrough]] inserted crown of gold on my lower left side molar. Drove to office and drove back home at 1 P.M. Rossi is back. - [[red underline]] George in Adirondacks. [[/red underline]] Long letter to Sachs concerning [[red underline]] European patents, [[/red underline]] recommending. That each of us should bear all the costs of any exchange patents which [[strikethrough]] we file [[/strikethrough]] each wishes to file in its own territory, and same arrangement between Bakelite Corporation and Bakelite Ltd: My annual medical examination resulted in a good report from Life Extension Institute. [[underline]] Dec 31 [[/underline]] Altho' feel much better, decided not to expose myself to the fatigue of New Years Eve celebrations at Century Club. Celine had invited Nina and Cornelia and the Wunderlich's for supper here, under the belief I was to spend the evening at the Century. - So her arrangements were changed to meet at [[red underline]] Cornelia's [[/red underline]] who is kept at home on account of her dislocated shoulder. - So I had a quiet evening alone [[strikethrough]] listeni [[/strikethrough]] reading and listening to the Radio. [[left margin]] Radio [[/left margin]] At 5:55 P.M heard the midnight celebration [[overwritten]] of [[/overwritten]] in Leipzig at Auerbach's Keller and the student songs there and a few minutes later the celebration in Berlin. Then at 6 P.M. the celebration in London; with the sound of the Big Ben clock of Westminster. Went to bed at 9 P.M after restful day. [[note in left margin in red]] Meditations [[/left margin]] [[underline]] Januari 1 [[/underline]] - 1933. Bright clear day spent indoors, writing and reading. My cold almost over. Spent day with [[red underline]] Celine, meditating on past times and present problems [[/red underline]] and [[strikethrough]] what a h [[/strikethrough]] how happy we should feel, with such a nice little family and [[strikethrough]] promising [[/strikethrough]] grand children. [[red underline]] Celine is a wonder [[/red underline]]
