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At office. Had a long interview with Carlson who is now specially entrusted with "Ply-bond" paper for glueing together thin slabs of wood. A development which is showing increased applications for endless purposes. He gave me a detailed description of the subject and believes there is a very large field developing. He is very enthusiastic about the subject, not only in the line of veneers but in many other fields.
[[underline]] Aug. 26. [[/underline]] At office.
[[underline]] Aug 27. [[/underline]] In Yonkers. Afternoon made experiments for Portwine from last years wine.
[[underline]] Aug 28. Sunday. [[/underline]] Wrote letter to Dr. Berl who criticized the names of those who figure in that Kekule group photograph.
[[underline]] Aug. 29. [[/underline]] Sent telegram to Dr. Howe that I have written letter to Dr. Berl of which I mailed him a copy. Went to Chemists Club library to read Dr. Howe's number in which that Kukule photographic group was published.
[[strikethrough]] Miss [[/strikethrough]] White haired and cheerful old Miss E. J. Fell is still in charge of Chemists Club library and [[strikethrough]] is as e [[/strikethrough]] loves her work as much as ever. I want to send her some of my Florida Fruit: Her domicile is 217 East 35 street Apartment 12, New York. Went to office. Rossi is there. George
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on vacation at camp.
[[underline]] August 30. [[/underline]] all day in Yonkers.
[[underline]] Aug. [[/underline]] 31. Ditto
[[underline]] September 1. [[/underline]] = (100.837.)
Putting [[strikethrough]] things [[/strikethrough]] my books in shape in Yonkers, and writing letters.
[[underline]] September 2 [[/underline]] Received a long nice letter of Dr. Berl, who tells me he spent 14 years of his life at Darmstadt, thus became well acquainted with historical facts concerning Kekule. Got a letter from George, wherein he tells me our camp has become so congested and so noisy, that there is little room for rest. - Too many guests and noise. - No wonder I came to this conclusion long ago. Beautiful weather. This afternoon Dick took me to the site of the coming New York World exhibition. The place is immense. So are the buildings and structures under construction. They surpass anything I have seen before. New roads and bridges, some of them enormous, under construction. It will be difficult to find one's way. In the neighborhood great activity everywhere in building homes and destroying antiquated houses. - Everything seems to be going on very actively and the men at work seem to be decidedly superior to Roosevelt's W.P.A. men. Levelling the