Wea. [Weather] Thur. [Thursday] July 6, 1905 Ther. [Thermometer]
  Clear & warm with light E. [east] wind.
  Spent forenoon in Museum
writing letters etc. To Boston at
noon with C. [Caroline]. We visitated [visited] Paine's
to look at a couch bed she has
bought for the farm & also a wall
paper store. Attended a meeting
of our Building Com. [Committee] at 15 State St.
2 to 4 P.M. Arthur, Leander,
Colby & Mackintire there. Passed on
various matters concerning Academy building.
  Wea. Weather] Friday 7 [July 7, 1905] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Clear and warm with light W. [west] wind.
  Spent day in Museum, clearing
up my desk, writing letters etc.
Lizzy Fuller dined with us on
the back piazza at 1.30.
In the evening C. [Caroline] & I called 
on the Howes & Coolidges.
Walter & Margie Deane started 
for Shelburne this morning.
Gypsy Moth caterpillars are fast
stripping our lindens.
  Cambridge - Boston - Concord.
  Wea. [Weather] Sat. [Saturday] July 8, 1905 Ther. [Thermometer]
  Clear and hot with S.W.  [southwest] wind.
  To Boston at 10.30. Went
direct to offices & visited Safety
Vaults with Mackintire to cut
off Fisk Wharf coupons for Estate.
Saw Arthur & Colby our architect.
Got home at 1 P.M. & lunched on 
back piazza with C. [Caroline]. We took
4.47 train from Boston to spend
Sunday at Concord, Ida with us.
Tuttle drove us to the farm.
  Wea. [Weather] Sunday 9 [July 9, 1905] Ther. [Thermometer]
92 [degrees] max [maximum]
  The Farm, Concord
  Clear & intensely hot
Two thunder showers at evening
C. [Caroline] & I took a short walk after
breakfast, visiting the barns, cow pasture
etc. Spent most of A.M. reading aloud
in the parlor. C. [Caroline] & Ida left at
3.30 driving to Concord to take 4.11
train for Cambridge.
  We had a splendid bird concert
at the farm in the early morning nearly
all the birds living there being in full
song for two or more hours. The mosquitos
have ceased to be troublesome.