Sept. [September] 7 Sunny but very hazy. Warm.
  To Hawthornden with C. & E. [Caroline and Elizabeth] by
10.50 A.M. train. Arriving walked
through glen to Rosslyn, about 2½ m. [miles]
My hip gave out just before I got
to the castle but resting awhile I 
was able to climb to the road
on the crest of the hill where E. [Elizabeth] 
had a wagonette waiting for me.
We drove to the nearest rise for
lunch, then back to Rosslyn
Church where we spent an hour
or more driving to the station
for the 5.20 train back to
Edinburgh. The day's experience 
is more fully described in
my journal.
Sept. [September] 8.- Day spent in house writing
& reading. My hip aching badly.
Edinburgh. 
Sept. [September] 9. Cloudy & rather warm.
Spent morning in house. At
1 P.M. drove to University Club to
meet & lunch with J. A. Harvie-Brown.
Liked him at first sight; short, thick
set, rather fat man with blue eyes,
red beard and dark brown hair, the 
last perhaps dyed though I think not.
Very jovial quick at [a] joke and
reparti [sic] [repartee], yet withal a trifle awkward in
manner at times as if embarassed [sic] [embarrassed].
Evidently a frank, whole-souled
gentleman. He told me that Wild Cats
and Pine Martins are still common in Scotland north
of Caledonian Canal. The Martins occur
sporadically south of this but the Cats
not. Ospreys are nearly extinct. He
knows of only three nests inhabited this 
year. There was possibly a fourth but
certainly no more in all Britain.
Kites are almost as scarce but their
are three nests (carefully preserved of
course) on one estate in Scotland.

