Lancaster.
Wea. [Weather] Tues. [Tuesday] July 2, 1901 Ther. [Thermometer]
91 [degrees]
  Clear & oppressively hot with light
thunder shower followed by a cool breeze
at evening.
  C. [Caroline] and I  
took the dogs to the Lane after breakfast.
I wrote the remainder of A.M.
& much of P.M. After supper C. [Caroline] &
I walked to the post office & bank.
There were multitudes of fire flies
twinkling their tiny light in the
grass fields along the woods.
Miss Forster is here. The others are
Misses Oliver, Swazey and Ward.
Wea. [Weather] Wednesday 3 [July 3, 1901] [Thermometer]
85 [degrees]
  Clear & cooler but still very warm.
  Spent A.M. writing. Took a drive
in P.M. with C. [Caroline] & Miss Swazey calling
at the Thayers. Saw Mrs. Thayer who
told me that her husband had taken
a Blackburnian Warbler's nest in
the pine woods where we looked for 
one on June 12 & 13th.
Lancaster.
Wea. [Weather] THUR. [Thursday] July 4, 1901 Ther. [Thermometer]
76 [degrees]
  Clear & a little cooler still with
clouds gathering in late P.M. & light
rain a little before midnight.
  Spent the forenoon writing as
usual. C. [Caroline] read to me in P.M.
There was a constant din of
fire crackers close about the house.
At 8 P.M. C. [Caroline] Miss Swazey & I
were driven to John Thayer's where
we saw some fireworks. Met
Bayard Thayer for the first time.
Wea. [Weather] Friday 5 [July 5, 1901] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Cloudy with S.E. [southeast] wind & a few
light sprinkles of rain.
  To Whalom Park with C. [Caroline] at 12 noon. Dined at cafe, 
went around lake in launch, saw [?] at theater
in woods. A fine bull moose, a pair of Elk, some
Deer & a good Black Bear in the Zoo.
  A Vireo solitarius & a D. coronata [Dendroica coronata] singing in white
pine woods in pic nic [picnic] grounds. In woods about 
open air theater Oven birds, Redstarts, Vireos,
Redeyes & Pine Warblers singing & Red Squirrels
chattering.