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102/ [[underline]] Sept. 4. [[/underline]] [[strikethrough]] Went [[/strikethrough]] Visited office. [[strikethrough]] Germany [[/strikethrough]] ^[[underline]][[George]][[/underline]] is in camp with the family (or running his boat?) [[underline]] Sept 5 [[/underline]] Servants all out. Mr. [[blank space]] came here to make my color pictures and moving pictures of myself in my laboratory or garden. - This man made a good impression and has a very complete moving picture outfit. - He paid $2000.00 for it [[underline[[ Sept 6. [[/underline]] Visited our offices. Had a talk with some of our men. [[red underline]] Business is very prosperous [[/red underline]] and [[red underline]] new plants are being built [[/red underline]] [[note in left margin]] [[underline]] 179.111 [[/underline]] [[/note in left margin]] Celine writes me that [[red underline]] Baekeland Roll [[/red underline]] is seriously ill (pneumonia?) Contracted it by swimming [[strikethrough]] during [[/strikethrough]] in our water during the recent very cold days [[vertical in left margin underlined]] At the Camp [[/vertical in left margin underlined]] [[underline]] Sept 7. [[/underline]] At Snug Rock all day. Beautiful weather. [[red underline]] Further killings [[/red underline]] by [[red underline]] Air planes [[/red underline]] both in [[red underline]] London [[/red underline]] and in [[red underline]] Berlin [[/red underline]] and other German posts keep on, ever increasing in ferocity and fatalities. [[underline]] Sept 8 Sunday. [[/underline]] Early morning news publishes further air attacks and still further killings and descriptions [[red underline]] H.G. Wells, the famous writer publishes a very caustic and damaging article in the New York Times [[/red underline]] of September 8 in which he shares the blunders and [[red underline]] lack of preparation of British politicians [[/red underline]] and [[vertical in left margin in red]] H.G. Wells [[/vertical in left margin in red]] [[end page]] [[start page]] \103  their men of the Army and Navy. Meantime [[red underline]] Roosevelt [[/red underline]] and [[red underline]] his politicians [[/red underline]] in Washington [[red underline]] commit the same blunders. [[/red underline]] - They now have postponed all discussion on enlistment until after election. Because they fear of losing votes and reelection if they act now. [[underline]] Sept 9 [[/underline]] Letter from Celine that [[red underline]] Baekeland Roll [[/red underline]] has [[red underline]] entirely recovered [[/red underline]] from his recent illness and is leaving camp with [[red underline]] Brooks [[/red underline]] to join their school and University (Harvard [[in left margin in red]] X [[/left margin]] [[bold red underline]] Sulpho-pyridin [[/bold red underline]] which cured me from my ear troubles, has had a rapid [[red underline]] curing effect on Baekel. [[/red underline]] Roll. To night beautiful [[strikethrough]] blossoming [[/strikethrough]] annual blooming of our night blooming Flower [[underline]] Sept 10. [[/underline]] Spent all day writing up my notes. [[red underline]] Andrew [[/red underline]] writes that he has laid the [[red underline]] new flooring [[/red underline]] tiles [[in right margin in red]] ! [[/in right margin]] [[in left margin]] 179.443 [[/left margin]] at "The Anchorage" and that the job has been a success and far superior to the old floor-tiles [[underline]] September 11. [[/underline]] Went to office where I found a letter from a German American signed [[red underline]] Hans Sperleer [[/red underline]] Northport, Michigan Box 131 September 8-1940. He tells me that his brother in law Dr. Adolphe Furth (at Ales-les-Bains, chez Madame Bourget, Oude France containing following extract from a [[red underline]] letter from his wife in Brussels as follows: [[/red underline]]