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on Seabord Air Line [[strikethrough]] for the[[--ing?]] of [[/strikethrough]] for end of month and paid in full. This night it started raining and kept on continuously. This is the first real rainfall we have had since last year
[[underlined]] May 11. [[/underlined]] Still raining. Then all day raining at intervals. - No wind moderate temperature.
Telephone call that Mrs. Huchinson has died.  Then later on a telegram that my dear good friend Elon Huntington Hooker has died in California. Did not even know he was ill.  This is the third of the Hooker brothers who died shortly within each other. Feel very sorry to lose one of my dearest and oldest friends. 
Busy all day preparing for my approaching departure.
[[underlined]] May 12. [[/underlined]]
Beautiful bright day. Have sent a telegram to Mrs. Hooker condolences for the death of her husband. Miss Barbara Reed, this morning brought me her typewritten account of the story of Bakelite. I made a few corrections.  She made a very good job of it.
[[underlined]] May 13 [[/underlined]]
Again clear skies and moderate temperature.  This morning at 6:30 AM the thermometer in the patio marked 66°F.
This afternoon visited Capt. Dougherty of Biscayne Bay Yacht. Has built himself an unusually fine house. His wife is a writer.
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this morning sent a night letter to meeting of Institute of Chemists for tomorrow evening's award of medal to Dr. Cottrell.
[[underlined]] May 14. [[/underlined]] Various correspondence.
[[underlined]] May 15 (Sunday) [[/underlined]] Here all day in this quiet place. Water in swimming tank 85°F
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[[underlined]] May 16. [[/underlined]]
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Continuous rain steadily all day. 2¾ inch.  First real rain in 7 months. Much needed.
[[underlined]] May 17. [[/underlined]]
Rain has ceased and grass & plants look better. Except the orange and grapefruit trees, the other trees have suffered less by the drought. In fact Akees, Mangos, Sapodillas, Avocado and flowering trees look better than any other year. 
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[[strikethrough]] Sunday May 15. [[/strikethrough]]
[[underlined]] May 18. [[/underlined]] Answered belated letters. One of the kittens has disappeared. The [[strikethrough]] cat [[/strikethrough]] mother cat has carried the 2 [[strikethrough]] rema [[/strikethrough]] remaining kittens from their underbrush shelter, where probably there are too many ants, to the rubber mat of the read door the the house.
This morning went for short visit to Mr. Weaver ^[[underlined]] [[Weaver]] [[/underlined]], the painter, who showed me how the ^[[little]] plants he gave me have grown so much in his garden. Andrew since three days has begun importing soil for the [[strikethrough]] lower [[/strikethrough]] lower garden, by means of the recently acquired second hand motor truck for which I paid $65.00. Two of the old tires bursted and have to be replaced at cost of $50.00