Lancaster - Concord.
Wea. [Weather] Fri. [Friday] July 26, 1901 Ther. [Thermometer]
  Clear and cool.
  Took the usual walk through
Cemetery Lawn with C. [Caroline] & [and] the dogs
just after breakfast.
  Wrote the remainder of the forenoon.
 In late P.M. drove out 
along the Shirley Road.
Wea. [weather] Saturday 27 Ther. [ Thermometer.]
  After breakfast, C. [Caroline] & [and] I drove over
to Bayard Thayer's place to see his
lily pond. It was most beautiful
& [and] interesting with an island in the center
of lotus foliage & [and] flowers and plants of
various kinds of Nymphaeas in full bloom
about the margins.
  Took 3.15 P.M. train to Concord
whence I drove to Ball's Hill.
Walked to Barrett meadows after supper.
Concord - Boston - Lancaster 
Cambridge,  
Wea. [Weather] Sun. [Sunday] July 28, 1901 Ther. [Thermometer.]
  Cloudy with several brisk showers & [and]
a perfect deluge of rain beginning soon
after midnight & [and] lasting until nearly
day break next morning.
  Spent A.M. transplanting ferns from
the woods on the north side of Ball's Hill
to about the cabin. In P.M. drove
to the farm where I spent an hour,
afterwards walking slowly back through
the woods. Mosquitos are almost gone
& [and] deer flies getting scarcer. Mr. Hutchins & [and]
sons called when I was absent from cabin.
Wea. [Weather] Monday 29 [July 29, 1901] Ther. [Thermometer.]
  Cloudy & [and] cool with E. [east] wind.  
Took 8.13 A.M. train for Boston to
keep an appointment at 10 A.M. at
Dr. Blake's. He now says the hearing 
in my left ear will be almost wholly
restored. Went to Cambridge at 11.30
dined at Harvard Square, spent P.M.
weeding the wild gardens at our place,
& [and] took express at Porter's at 5.06.
Purdie was on the train. He will
spend rest of week with us. C. [Caroline] met 
us with Dando in Lancaster station.