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Dr Hutchison here then also [[red underline]] Dr. Jeffrey; [[/red underline]] the latter to [[red underline]] try my truss. [[/red underline]] But could not use it on account of [[red underline]] 3 insect bites on my lower back, [[/red underline]] which have been bothering me for more than a week. Am treating them with [[red underline]] Iodine solution [[/red underline]] These [[red underline]] bites have occured during the first days I slept here. [[/red underline]] [[vertical note in left margin]] Showed them how to prepare & eat [[red underline]] Akees [[/red underline]] [[/vertical note in left margin]] [[underline]] Jan 20 [[/underline]] [[red underline]] Inauguration [[/red underline]] of [[red underline]] Franklin Roosevelt [[/red underline]] at Washington. Very rainy day. Radio broadcasting every detail of the Ceremony much handicapped by weather conditions. The [[red underline]] N.Y. Times [[/red underline]] has published a long list of men and their salaries received in 1935. which are over $15000. - this list refers only to State of New York. [[red underline]] A stupid piece [[/red underline]] of unneccessary - and [[red underline]] dangerous publicity, [[/red underline]] carried out by [[red underline]] one of the men of the New Deal in Washington. [[/red underline]] [[vertical note in left margin]] [[red underline]] Roosevelt and his New Deal [[/red underline]] [[/vertical note in left margin]] Giving only blunt sum as received, no reduction for taxes, or reimbursement for expenses. Letter to Rachel - Mehash & Breneck also to Brannon waiting for samples also to Remarchamps
[[underline]] Jan 21 [[/underline]] Mr. Daugherty (? of Biscayne Yacht Club came to visit me to ask whether I would serve on Chowder Party Committee of Biscayne Bay Yacht Club, at next Washington Birthday - yes 
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Afternoon went with Dr. [[red underline]] Fairchild to Chapman Field [[/red underline]] botanical garden to offer them a bagful of seeds of my [[red underline]] Blighia Sapida. [[/red underline]] Showed them the fruit and explained how to prepare it [[vertical note in left margin in red, underlined in red]] Blighia Sapida [[/vertical note in left margin in red underlined in red]] Fairchild showed me in one of the coral pits a very healthy specimen of a [[red underline]] Mangosteen [[/red underline]] tree. also a number of bearing [[red underline]] coffee trees [[/red underline]] with fine healthy foliage and berries
[[underline]] Jan 22 [[/underline]] A long letter of [[red underline]] George Roll [[/red underline]] again [[red underline]] about [[/red underline]] his son's [[red underline]] schooling [[/red underline]] etc. - Wrote him have referred letter to [[red underline]] Celine, [[/red underline]] who as [[red underline]] grand-ma has confidence of all our grandchildren. [[/red underline]] Steady fine weather. Also received letter from [[red underline]] Home [[/red underline]] ^[[by George Roll!]] wherein he contradicts some of the opinion of George B. regarding the great value of Geo Roll !! as adviser in tax matters !!! - Fool !!! [[vertical note in left margin in red]] [[red underline]] Hemorhoids [[/red underline]] [[/vertical note in left margin]] The new "two cylinder outboard" Johnson was delivered this morning Sailmaker came to measure the new jibheaded sail for [[red underline]] main mast of ION. [[/red underline]] Since several day [[red underline]] am much bothered with bleeding Hemorhoids. [[/red underline]] This [[red underline]] has only occured since I am back here. [[/red underline]] - Since last June when I left for England and took advice of George Baekeland to take every evening [[red underline]] Psyllium and [[/red underline]] before retiring - I have had