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78/ [[underline]] April 19. [[/underline]] [[red underline]] Frieda left [[/red underline]] this morning for Yonkers. Celine intends following Saturday if I am better [[left margin in red and underlined]] illness [[/left margin in red]] [[underline]] April 20. [[/underline]] [[red underline]] Condition about the same still easily tired. [[/red underline]] Difficulty in writing and handling my pen. [[red underline]] Slow in thinking as if my brain [[/red underline]] were poisoned by ptomaine [[underline]] April 21. [[/underline]] Feel somewhat better feel less tired. Celine out visiting with the Ritters [[red underline]] Calverts [[/red underline]] starts his digging for foundations one house and a garage appartment [[left margin in red]] Better [[/left margin]] [[underline]] April 22 [[/underline]] [[red underline]] Better [[/red underline]] - Headaches almost gone. But still that [[red underline]] tired feeling [[/red underline]] Celine postpones her departure till tomorrow morning [[underline]] April 23 [[/underline]] (Sunday). [[left margin in red and underlined]] Celine goes north [[/left margin]] Drove [[red underline]] Celine [[/red underline]] to station this morning. Dr & [[red underline]] Mrs. Fairchild were there to [[/red underline]] see her off. We returned together [[underline]] April 24 [[/underline]] - All alone, moderate eating continued. - Fuller amelioration. Temp. normal. Good appetite. [[underline]] April 25. [[/underline]] Mr. [[red underline]] Hodenpyl [[/red underline]] died in Richmond Virginia. He left here a few days ago with Mrs. H. in his Limousine for the North. His heart disease carried him off. I [[red underline]] remember him as a very pleasant and interesting kind man. [[/red underline]] A loss for Coconut Grove where he had made many friends. Also hear that Dr. [[red underline]] Fairchild [[/red underline]] [[end page]] [[start page]] 79 is laid up with [[red underline]] Influenza [[/red underline]] which he probably caught in Nassau, or in the flying machine which brought him from Nassau to here, after his exploration work in Haiti. [[underline]] April 26. [[/underline]] Good nights rest, first since weeks. Fine weather. Again at my work preparatory to leaving here [[underline]] April 27. [[/underline]] Brought [[red underline]] General Rivers [[/red underline]] here from [[strikethrough]] Coca [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] Coral Gables [[/red underline]] where he is staying with friends [[underline]] April 28. [[/underline]] [[strikethrough]] I am [[/strikethrough]] Wind in N.W with temp. 80°F and only 40% humidity! Mosquitoes begin to show for first time since many months [[left margin in red]] Hutchinson attacked [[/left margin]] [[underline]] April 29. [[/underline]] Wrote Miss Bidwell to receive cabin on SS. Manhattan leaving New York May 24 - noon. Cary Hutchinson visited here with Mrs H. The [[red underline]] politicians who try [[/red underline]] to get in by [[red underline]] attacking the Miami & Power Light [[/red underline]] Co etc. have already [[red underline]] assailed him [[/red underline]] and are continuing doing so to buy votes. He certainly has [[red underline]] no pleasant task [[/red underline]] in sight Told him in presence of Mrs H. that is he loses his sense of humor and gets angry during his job he will be a loser. [[underline]] April 30 [[/underline]] (Sunday) Wrote long letter to [[red underline]] George [[/red underline]] - by Air Mail. He [[red underline]] wants to resign as member of the Finance Committee. [[/red underline]] Told him urgently that if he does so, whatever his reasons may