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177/ [[underline]] Dec. 21 [[/underline]] At office. George and do not see the necessity of retaining Andrew Murray for testing paint panels in Coconut Grove. [[underline]] Dec 22. [[/underline]] At Snug Rock all day Celine in New York with the grandchildren. [[underline]] Dec. 23 [[/underline]] The man who made two rope ladders for fire-escapes delivered them. $84.00
[[underline]] Dec 24 [[/underline]] (Sunday) At Snug Rock all day Crisp bright day. Celine had several of her friends to call this morning. - Also arranged her Christmas tree. Was busy all day compounding the Port-Wine for Columbia older graduates meeting and indexing my daily note-book In doing so I felt several years younger rereading my notes about [[strikethrough]] repeated [[/strikethrough]]  past events [[strikethrough]] of 19 [[/strikethrough]] from Dec 25-1933 to December 31-1934. [[underline]] Dec. 25 [[/underline]] Xmas. The whole Baekeland family [[insert]] X [[/insert]] [[vertical note in left margin]] X except Brooksie who is still in India [[/vertical note in left margin]] at Snug Rock for dinner Christmas tree and trappings there to as usual. Philip Wyman and his children, Nina and her children [[strikethrough]] The [[/strikethrough]] George B. and his wife and the "Newly-Wed's" = Frederic von Hessert and Dickie. Fine cheerful spirit for all I feel more a patriarch than ever. [[underline]] Dec. 26 [[/underline]] Stayed at Snug Rock attending to belated work. [[note in left margin, underline]] 205.093 [[/note in left margin]] [[end page]] [[start page]] \178
[[underline]] Dec. 27 [[7 overwrites 6]] [[/underline]]. - To office in New York arranging matters. All day cold and freezing [[underline]] Dec 28 [[/underline]]. Went to see Phillip Wyman to tell him the lies and presumption of Phineas Rudish a former student of Cornell University, who now is a citrus fruit farmer in Columbia and claims that he invented a mixture of Phenol and formaldehyde of which he made a varnish and then gave it up after reading the publication of my paper on Bakelite in 1909. Same old trick! - I had filed my patents in the U.S. in 1907 and following years. - so everybody could read them They caused a sensation here and abroad. [[strikethrough]] At noon [[/strikethrough]] At the Century today I got acquainted with Mr. Frederik Ziegler a German born American
[[underline]] Dec. 29 [[9 overwrites 8]] [[/underline]] At Snug Rock all day indexing my former note-books. - Celine went to New York and took supper [[strikethrough]] at [[/strikethrough]] with Gerard Hessert and Dickie. [[underline]] Dec. 30 [[/underline]] Beautiful snow all over the landscape this morning Spent all morning fixing fire-extinguishing glass bulbs containing CCl[[subscript]]4[[/subscript]] in every room of the house. Dick helping me very skilfully in this work. [[vertical note in left margin]] Carbon tetrachloride against fire [[/vertical note in left margin]] Afternoon finished making a provision of "Port-wine" from my home made wines which had accumulated here for many years. - Intend to send my home made Portwine to the [[strikethrough]] meeting [[/strikethrough]] annual meeting of the Society of the Older Graduates of Columbia; as I have done in past years since prohibition