Bethel Portland
Wea. [Weather] Fri. [Friday] March 8, 1901 Ther. [Thermometer]
+9 [degrees]
34 [degrees]
  Cloudy with almost no wind -
mere breaths from the N [North] or NW [Northwest].
  Spent entire day in the house 
packing for my departure to-morrow,
a wearying business always & especially
trying this time because I brought a
lot of things in December & have been
adding to them more since. I have two
trunks, two large boxes & a portmanteau filled
to [?]. Despite the hurry & worry of the
day I managed to write a bird (the Bank
Swallow) for the Cambridge list.
Wea. [Weather] Saturday 9 [March 9, 1901] Ther. [Thermometer]
44 [degrees]
  Cloudy, calm, mild.
  C. [Caroline] & I left Bethel by the 8.45
train this morning. At North Yarmouth
most of the fields were bare and the
roads deep in mud but the woods
were still buried in snow. Saw 2 Crows
in this town.
  There was almost no snow left in &
around Portland. We went to Congress Square
Hotel. Took a walk in P.M. and
exposed 4 plates 3 at the Carroll, one
at the Clapp house. The light was very poor
I gave 8 to 10 sec. [seconds] exposure.
Portland Cambridge  
Wea. [Weather] Sun. [Sunday] March 10, 1901 Ther. [Thermometer]
  Brilliantly clear with light N.W. [Northwest]
wind. Much colder but thawing at noon.
  In A.M. C. [Caroline] & I went to services at
the stone church (St. Paul's). We did not
have the old parson this time but a
man not much over thirty.
  Returned to hotel for the camera &
took several photographs of old houses
before dinner. Spent P.M. in room.
C. [Caroline] had a cold coming on.
Wea. [Weather] Monday 11 [March 11, 1901] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Heavy rainstorm beginning last 
night & lasting most of to-day. At Bethel
as I heard later, about 12 in. [inches] of snowfall.
  C. [Caroline] & I spent the morning in our
hotel. At noon we drove in a
carriage through a pouring rain to the
Union Station whence we took the
12.45 train for Boston. There was
a little snow as far as Portsmouth;
beyond there the country was almost
wholly bare. Reached the house at 5 P.M.