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[[underline]] Office address [[/underline]]  = Union Carbide East 42 st
Journal of New York. Dr. L.H. Baekeland 
Office address = [[strikethrough]] 247 Park Ave. New York [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] Florida residence = 3715 Main Highway Coconut Grove. [[/red underline]] Fla.  In case of loss, please write to any of the above addresses. [[vertical note in left margin]] [[underline]] Yonkers [[/underline]] Residence N.Y. [[strikethrough]] The A [[/strikethrough]] [[/vertical note in left margin]] [[underline]] Monday [[/underline]] Januari 1- [[double underline]] 1940 [[/double underline]] - [[red underline]] Nina, Wyman and children [[/red underline]] all in Adirondacks camp. - Beautiful white snow here [[red underline]] Celine [[/red undelrine]] drove to George's house - while I am packing for Florida and putting things in order. [[strikethrough]] Jan 2 [[/strikethrough]] Jan. 2 = To office then Eastman Co for my photos. - Went to [[red underline]] Century Club [[/red underline]] to [[strikethrough]] an [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] register Professor Urey [[strikethrough]] for [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] (Nobel Prize [[/red underline]] for membership at the Century. - This on request of [[red underline]] Dr. Keppel [[/red underline]] Head of Carnegie foundation Bright but cold and snow. [[underline]] Jan 3. [[/underline]] At Snug Rock. - Made up 2 gallons Port-Wine and 4 pint bottles ditto. [[underline]] Jan 4 [[/underline]] At office then to [[red underline]] Pomeroy. 42 st [[/red underline]] for [[red underline]] fixing my truss. [[/red underline]] Then to Century Club for luncheon. [[underline]] Jan 5 [[/underline]] = Received a long letter from Prof. Barnett F. Dodge of Yale University. - Engineering division, Who announces that [[red underline]] Yale contemplates honoring Dr. William T. Barret, [[/red underline]] (head of [[red underline]] Union Carbide [[/red underline]]) with a [[red underline]] honorary doctor's degree [[/red underline]] and wants my opinion or endorsement. - Wrote him a one full page endorsing [[red underline]] Barret [[/red underline]] and giving him an account why; in giving my experience with B and how he developed the engineering and chemical branches of U.C. [[vertical note in left margin]] [[red underline]] My ^[[New York]] address is [[/red underline]] c/o Union Carbide East 42 street New York [[/vertical note in left margin]] Wrote also a letter to George B calling his attention to [[red underline]] Dupont [[/red underline]] Co, which has become one of the largest chemical enterprises in the world and how