Lancaster.
Wea. [Weather] Tues. [Tuesday] July 30, 1901 Ther. [Thermometer]
  Clear and oppressively sultry.
  C. [Caroline], Miss Swazey, Miss Foster & I walked 
through Cemetery Lane after breakfast. 
  I spent the remainder of A.M.
writing. At 5 P.M. C. [Caroline], Miss Swazey,
Purdie & I started for a drive. We 
went first to the big elm, thence to
the great colony of Eave Swallows on the
Harvard road, home by the Swan Bridges
road. Saw fully 50 acres of hardhack
in bloom on the intervale by the river.
Wea. [Weather] Wednesday 31 [July 31,1901] Ther. [Thermometer]
  A.M. hazy, P.M. cloudy. A calm sultry day.
  After breakfast C. [Caroline] Miss Swazey, Purdie & I
drove to Bayard Thayer's lily pond. I wrote 
the remainder of forenoon. C. [Caroline] took 3.15 P.M.
train to Groton to see Bessy. At 3 P.M.
Purdie & I started for a drive in the
buggy. Went up Shirley road, through
wood roads to white pine woods where
the Blackburnian's breed & where we heard
a Hermit, a Solitary Vireo, & 2 Tanagers in
full song. Also a Blackburnian singing feebly.
  On way back heard 2 Henslow's Sparrows
singing in meadow on the [pansy?] farm &
a third in field of [?] grass on [?] road.
  Met C. [Caroline] at arrival of 6.30 train.
[margin]First Tree Cricket this evening[/margin]
Lancaster.
Wea. [Weather] Thur. [Thursday] Aug. 1, 1901 [August 1, 1901] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Brilliantly clear & deliciously cool.
  Just after breakfast Purdie & I drove over
to John Thayer's seeing him, Mrs. Thayer &
the aviary.
  I wrote through the forenoon as usual.
With C. [Caroline], Miss Oliver, Miss Swazey, Miss Holman
& Purdie took the 2 P.M. electric car for
Whalom Park where we spent afternoon &
evening. Saw Rip Van Winkle at the theater,
the zoo, took a trip around the pond in the 
launch, took tea on the piazza of the cafe & 
got home at 9 P.M.
[margin]Splendid chorus of Robins at day break[/margin]
Wea. [Weather] Friday 2 [August 2, 1901] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Clear & slightly warmer.
  C. [Caroline] & I took Larry to the river after
breakfast. Found 2 species of wild
sunflowers growing along the river.
Meadow Larks rising from the fields, a
few singing.
  Spent A.M. writing. Wrote letters in
P.M. C. [Caroline] had a bad headache in P.M.
  Purdie went off alone in A.M.
In P.M. we drove Miss Swazey &
Miss Oliver to Clinton.