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61/ [[left margin]] [[red underline]] Haleah [[/red underline]] [[/left margin]] transplanted these from their natural habitat the Everglades. [[left margin]] Royal Palms [[/left margin]] They are about 2 or 3 times the height of my [[red underline]] Royal Palms [[/red underline]] but much thinner. This is due probability to the fact that surrounded by other trees they grew in height so as to have access to sunlight sacrificing their thickness. This makes them look weird and not so graceful as the [[strikethrough]] lu [[/strikethrough]] shorter but [[strikethrough]] more [[/strikethrough]] thicker usual Royals such as I have in my garden. In the little lakes in the center of the immaculately clean race course I noticed white Swans and quite a number of pink [[red underline]] Flamingo birds. [[/red underline]] The whole place is unusually well planned and well kept and is arranged on a vast and modern scale. [[underline]] April 13. [[/underline]] Went to Miami, Miami Beach as far as Baker's Haulover. Most tourists have left and this makes it a pleasant excursion without the usual encumbrement of motor cars. [[underline]] April 14. [[/underline]] Wrote special letter to Hays concerning Celine's new will also to George. Suggested also to extend study of [[red underline]] better fiber than wood flour, [[\red underline]] for our molding mixtures. [[left margin]] Skin poison [[/left margin]] [[underline]] Sunday [[/underline]] April 15. [[strikethrough]] Celine made some m [[\strikethrough]] Am considerably annoyed by [[red underline]] skin poisoning due to Metopium [[/red underline]] toxiferum if not thru our Oleanders. My left wrist and right ankle infected, as well as [[end page]] [[start page]] \62 [[left margin]] Metopium [[/left margin]] [[red underline]] my brow, hands and legs. [[/red underline]] Treated with boric acid solution in alcohol but poor means. Am astonished to find so little information on this subject in medical books and even in those treating specially the skin diseases [[left margin]] British Bakelite [[/left margin]] [[underline]] April 16. [[/underline]] Wrote Rossi my reasons why it is preferable that I should not go to Germany, [[underline]] before [[/underline]] their annual meeting, where they try to use me as a rubber stamp to carry out anything they have concocted beforehand. Also a [[red underline]] letter to Potter [[/red underline]] repeating my approval to drop all foreign directors from their directorate so as to [[red underline]] prevent that competitors of Bakelite Ltd should exploit [[strikethrough]] our purpose [[/strikethrough]] the fact of our long list of American directors. [[/red underline]] [[left margin]] Ripper [[/left margin]] Received letter from [[red underline]] Ripper [[/red underline]] thanking me again and that he is leaving for [[red underline]] Switzerland [[/red underline]] on April 14, instead of going to Austria. Expects to come back here next autumn. Wrote to Sachs who suggested to us assisting La Bakelite with our money explaining shortly why our only answer to his request is: [[red underline]] No. [[/red underline]] [[left margin]] Sachs [[/left margin]] I suspect [[red underline]] Sachs [[/red underline]] who will be dropped by Bakelite Gesellschaft is trying to get a job either in La Bakelite or by Basso in Milan and is trying to ingratiate himself among both. [[underline]] April [[strikethrough]] 15 [[/strikethrough]] 17. [[/underline]] This morning Celine myself and Andrew left in