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[[underlined]] April 5. [[/underlined]] (Sunday). Celine still coughs and keeps quiet. Sent $30 to Marcel Outry for his Life-saving Society in Ghent. Visit of Mr. [[Leuart?]], a cripple formerly of Hackett's school in Riverdale, then Harvard & introduced by Hackett. A nurse is driving for him. Both legs lame.
[[underlined]] April 6. [[/underlined]]  Wine from oranges fermenting.
[[underlined]] April 7. [[/underlined]] Out with Ion, Murray & colored man Rowe. Engine worked perfectly and everything. Left harbor 10.A.M. anchored Bear Cut 10:40, no fish. All alone except one building sand dredge, and one man living in a hut on Virginia Key shore. Then went to sandy beach just north of Hurricane harbor near Matheson's Moorish palace. Found variety of sea shells, also large pointed tropical scallops. Returning home found Dr. William J. Hale (of Dow Co) his daughter, sister in law & other lady and a man friend eagerly inspecting my garden and interested in my plants etc. and my orange wine. - Pleasant gathering.
[[underlined]] April 8. [[/underlined]]  Mailed my New York State [[strikethrough]] Tax [[/strikethrough]] Income Tax returns
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[[underlined]] April 6. [[/underlined]]  Wrote another letter to George to let me know his [[underlined]] specific [[/underlined]] recommendations concerning increased salaries. Celine better and went tonight to Mrs. Henry L. Doherty's dinner in honor of President of Venezuela & his wife.  Doherty very ill 103° temperature says his wife.
Andrew as well as myself show strong eruption on skin of ankles & legs, due to plant poisoning - poison rubber?) during our orchid hunt a few days ago. I have been treating my blister [[strikethrough]] with [[/strikethrough]] by rubbing them with strong solution of Na2CO3. But am beginning now with hypochlorite of Sodium solution which I believe better.
[[underlined]] April 10. [[/underlined]]  Repeated announcement to Potter that am leaving with SS. Europa.
[[underlined]] April 11. [[/underlined]]  Yesterday had visit of concheologist Clench (?) of Harvard to see my garden with Mrs. Fairchild. George complains about Redman not cooperating with Wieth and working independently and not speaking to him. Also that last week Redman had three attacks. Wrote to George B. to be more specific and