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[[start page]] [[left justified]] 56/ Potter [[strikethrough]] sta [[/strikethrough]] with me till I got in sleeping car. - Was still in my evening suit. Quiet night. Awakened at 7 P.M. at Waterloo station. [[red underline]] Boat train for Southhampton at 10:10 A.M. [[/red underline]] [[left margin in red]] Montagu Perkins [[/left margin in red]] While in my compartment had pleasant surprise of [[red underline]] Montaque Perkins. [[/red underline]] (our attorney and director of Balelite limited) and his daughter, to remind me should send him copy of my "Family motor trip through Europe" Cold and rainy landscape. [[left margin in red]] Back to America [[/left margin in red]] [[red underline]] Steamer Bremen, [[/red underline]] sistership to SS. Europa with which I arrived sailed at 12:15 P.M. for Cherbourg. Course led us along the endless yachts (on Solent? and around [[red underline]] Isle of Wight. [[/red underline]] Then stopped at Cherbourg [[strikethrough]] about [[/strikethrough]] Usual [[strikethrough]] bl [[/strikethrough]] band playing there while additional passengers entered boat. Was delighted to find a nice [[red underline]] letter of [[bold red underline]] Dickie [[/bold red underline]] Baekeland, [[/red underline]] also [[strikethrough]] di [[/strikethrough]] latin dipoloma of Fellow of the [[red underline]] Royal Society of Edinburgh [[/red underline]] which was sent by [[red underline]] Kendall [[/red underline]] together with Scotch Newspapers announcing the events. Am delighted to see that [[red underline]] Dr. Sarton and Prof. Wheeler [[/red underline]] the entomologist both from [[red underline]] Harvard [[/red underline]] had been [[end page]] [[start page]] [[right justified]] 57/ honored in the same way. Sent a telegram of thanks to [[red underline]] Kendall. [[/red underline]] As usually have instructed not to print my name on passenger list. Did not expect to meet any acquaintances. [[left margin in red]] Nicholas M. Butler [[/left margin in red]] But there walks aboard Dr. [[red underline]] Nicholas Murray Butler [[/red underline]] President of Columbia U. friendly chat etc. Then later [[red underline]] Colonel Warfield [[/red underline]] just returning from India where he was 6 months in service of Am. [[red underline]] Cyanimid [[/red underline]] Co. Pleasant meeting. [[left margin in red]] Nina [[/left margin in red]] Then [[strikethrough]] wen [[/strikethrough]] while standing near the gang plank where incoming passengers etc. came aboard, was suddenly confronted in the crowd with a lady who acted rather familiar with me [[red underline]] passing her arm around me [[/red underline]] and I taken by surprise, ready to say: "Madam, you take me for another!", when I found [[red underline]] it was Nina [[/red underline]] laughing aloud, and accompanied by her husband, who had been touring thru England, Scotland, Netherland, Belgium and France in their motor car which had been put aboard our steamer at Cherbourg. - A great and unexpected surprise to me