London to Oxford
Aug. 17 Clear and very warm (for England)
shopping all A.M. visiting Copper & Waters,
Lincoln & Bennett, & Briggs (umbrellas).
  Took 4.45 P.M. train for Oxford. Found
C. & E. well & delighted with Mrs. Bartlett's
(#19 Wellington Sq.) lodgings. Swifts in
consderable numbers flying about at
evening.
Oxford
Aug. 18. Clear and cool; a fine day.
  Started out with C. & E. at 10.30 & spent rest
of day sight-seeing. Christ's Church College
interesting especially the paintings (all portraits)
in dining hall, Magdalen College very beautiful
especially the winding and straight (Addison's)
walks shaded with trees about meadow with the
clear, shallow river and deer park, New College
also interesting its old garden with high
fortified wall superlataively peaceful & beautiful.
A Wood Pigeon cooing. Robins singing in
subdued tones. [blank space] Library. Saw only
the picture gallery with relics. The rest
closed.
Oxford to Lincoln
  Aug. 19. Cloudy & clear with frequent heavy
showers. Immediately after breakfast I
started out in search of a doctor a
trouble in my left ear, which began
Sunday, having culminated to-day in
almost total deafness. This proved to
be caused by a very simple difficulty which
was quickly removed by Mr. [blank space] on
whom I finally called. (Fee one guinea.)
  With C. & E. took the 12.05 train for
Lincoln. The journey proved very tedious
with no less than four changes. Second
class all the way. Country not
especially interesting. Very like that
in Cheshire but less hilly. Poppies still
in bloom but faded-looking. Saw two
clusters of golden-rod(?) It does not
seem to be common in England.
Saw one immense flock of Rooks but
very few single birds. Only two or three overall
flocks of Starlings. What has become of them?
Reached Lincoln at 6.35 & went to 
White Hart Inn. Swifts flying over the
town in considerable numbers.