Wea. [Weather] Mon. [Monday] Aug. [August] 7, 1905 Ther. [Thermometer]
  Clear & warm with light W. [west] wind.
  Spent most of day in Museum
working on proofs of Camb. Birds [Cambridge Birds].
C. [Caroline] was much better this morning
but in the afternoon she had
a relapse with severe pain.
  Dr. Mackintire gave her something
that relieved her & she had a fairly 
good night. E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] & the Bowditches
called in the evening. Dora Thayer
died in New York yesterday.
  Wea. [Weather] Tuesday 8 [August 8, 1905] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Clear & warm with light S. [south] wind.
  Spent most of day in Museum
writing letters & revising M.S. [manuscript].
C. [Caroline] very much better & wholly
free from pain.
  An Oven bird in the garden.
Excepting a Black & White Creeper
seen here last month this is the
first migratory visitor of the summer.
Saw a Cedar Bird carrying off a
big piece of something like [?]. It
must have been building a nest.
Wea. [Weather] Wed. [Wednesday] Aug. [August] 9, 1905 Ther. [Thermometer]
  Cloudy, warm, very humid, with
light rain in P.M.
  C. [Caroline] much better today but still 
confined to her couch. Gilbert went
to Concord where he & Forbush are
painting the parlor at the farm house.
I spent most of day in Museum
revising M.S. [manuscript] of Cambridge Birds.
Took Larry to walk in P.M.
Lots of Swifts about. Counted 14
last evening & 10 this evening. 
Wea. [Weather] Thursday 10 [August 19, 1905] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Clear & very warm with strong
S.W. [southwest] wind.
  C. [Caroline] had a comfortable day but
she spent it on her couch.
  I worked in Museum at final
revision of Cambridge Birds.
Some passages I cannot improve,
others I alter or even rewrite.
Took Larry to walk in late P.M.
& read to C. [Caroline] for half an hour after dinner.
J.A. Farley, A.C. Hill & W.E.
Freeman called in late P.M., &
Mr. Hammond in the evening.