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what a [[red underline]] peaceful beautiful spot Snug Rock [[/red underline]] is.
[[underline]] July [[overwritten]] 14 [[/overwritten]] 17. [[/underline]]
Went to office. [[red underline]] New offices all installed [[/red underline]] and finished. Sales very satisfactory. Many of our head men on their vacation. Rossi is leaving Saturday for a cruise in a ketch. Everybody seems happy. 
So do I.
This evening [[red underline]] Sawyer [[/red underline]] the painter called and wants me to buy some of his [[red underline]] paintings. [[/red underline]] 
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[[underline]] July 16 [[/underline]]
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Busy here all day at [[red underline]] Snug Rock, [[/red underline]] unpacking, classifying, answering letters accumulated during my absence. [[strikethrough]] since 5 AM [[/strikethrough]]
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[[underline]] Saturday 18 [[/underline]]July. At Snug Rock all day, packing for going tomorrow to Baltimore.
Wrote letter to [[strikethrough]] Mis [[/strikethrough]] Mrs. Flowerdew [[red underline]] Lowson [[/red underline]] in answer to her invitation to [[red underline]] marriage of her son to daughter of Lord Stratconnah. [[/red underline]] 
[[left margin in red]] Cecil Roberts [[/left margin in red]]
Yesterday wrote a letter to [[red underline]] Mr Cecil Roberts [[/red underline]] in answer to his asking information about my work on Velox, which he intends to incorporate in a book he is writing.
[[underline]] July 19 [[/underline]] (Sunday) Pleasant weather. Reading all morning, charmingly quiet. [[red underline]] Hudson and my garden seem more beautiful landscape [[/red underline]] than ever. Took 3:30 P.M train for [[red underline]] Baltimore [[/red underline]] -  Thence bus to [[strikethrough]] Gibsin [[/strikethrough]] ^[[red underline]] [[Gibson]] [[/red underline]] 
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Meeting [[red underline]] Gibson Island [[red underline]] [[/vertical note in left margin]] 
[[red underline]] Island, [[/red underline]]  where the chemical conference is to be held at the hotel and buildings of the Yacht Club, on the shore of Chesapeake Bay - Beautiful resort with excellent landscaping
Found [[red underline]] Dr Tom Midgeley [[/red underline]] there of wartime and Dayton Ohio association [[red underline]] inventor of ethylgasoline [[/red underline]] etc etc. More alive and active than ever. Reminding me of my days at Dayton Ohio with him Kettering and Col. Deeds.
Also [[strikethrough]] Neil [[/strikethrough]][[red underline]] Dr Neil Gordon of Johns Hopkins University, who organised this conference [[/red underline]] on polymerisation and synthetic plastics [[red underline]] which I am to preside. [[/red underline]] Klotz and many others were already there, some with their wives and children who are to live here during the conference week. Pleasant quiet resort. So went to bed about 10 PM after meeting all the old friends. Felt rather tired but could not fall asleep until 2 P.M and got up at 5. A.M. Strong rain and wind on the Bay. 
[[underline]] July 20 [[/underline]] Heavy rainstorm this morning then somewhat busy. The [[red underline]] boathouse of the Yacht Club was our meeting place. [[/red underline]] Our chemical meeting had been presided since several weeks by other [[strikethrough]] conference [[/strikethrough]] similar conferences on other specialties in Science. Preceding one on physics was presided by the great Dr. Milliken. (Nobel Prize) The meetings start at 10.A.M. Dr. [[red underline]] Midgeley [[/red underline]] has been assigned [[red underline]] to me as an assistant. [[/red underline]] 

Transcription Notes:
Flowerdew Lowson is correct "Tom Midgeley" probably refers to Thomas Midgley, Jr., an American mechanical engineer and chemist. Robert A. Millikan, Nobel prize winner in physics 1923