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while I stayed at "Snug Rock"
Yesterday at the Chemist Club of New York met many old timers I had not seen since many years. Wallace P. Cohoe seems to play an important Role.
Newspapers of today report that the Germans state the Capture of Sevastopol, while the British make [[strikethrough]] a [[/strikethrough]] stand in Desert Corridor.
Since a very long time, have received no news nor report from Brooksie who now since further engaged in [[strikethrough]] flae [[/strikethrough]] flying. Nor do we know whether he is still alive.
Last news was that he was cooperating with the Canadians or the British in Canada.
A beautiful day it was today. Had a long and pleasant conversation with Celine, about the past and 
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the present, and our children. Celine cheerful as ever is the head of [[strikethrough]] our[[/strikethrough]] our increasing [[strikethrough]] fa cimily [[/strikethrough]] family and beloved by all.
[[underlined]] July 21 - 1942. [[/underlined]]
This notebook has gone astray since quite sometime and I found it this morning. 
In the mean time plenty of bad news has been reported from Java and Europe and our country has joined the war. Brooksie is now in Canada training himself as a flyer.
Shell we ever seem him again? My dear wife Celine is busy and cheerful as ever; but has spent little time in our camp of the Adirondacks and is there today. Whenever she is there she is the star to all who are there.
My visit to Columbia and my fellow members. [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] I meet there but I have scant