Glendale - Cambridge
Wea. [Weather] Mon. [Monday] July 2, 1906 Ther. [Thermometer]
  Chiefly cloudy with heavy thunder
showers at night.
  Spent most of day in studio reading.
Dan [Daniel Chester French] gave me a long sitting in P.M.
& almost finished my pastel portrait
which bids fair to be a good likeness.
  At 5 P.M. we started for a walk.
Went to Knight's ice pond where 
we found newts in usual numbers. A
pair of Carolina Doves flew over pond and
alighted in some dead pines giving me good view.
  Spent evening with family in studio.

Wea. [Weather] Tuesday 3 [July 3, 1906] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Partly cloudy and very sultry with heavy
rain at evening.
  Took 10.27 train for Boston. While
waiting at station saw pair of Rough Winged 
Swallows flying over Housatonic River with
6 Bank Swallows. The Rough wings had
3 full grown young perched on tel. wire [telephone wire] over
river & feed them repeatedly. I watched
them with my glass & identified them 
positively. As train was passing Lee saw
a huge fish swimming in river near surface.
At Pittsfield caught belated train
from Chicago & found George and Mary Deane
in parlor car returning from Alaska.
Reached home at 5 P.M. and found C. [Caroline] well.
About 65 Robins came into lilacs to roost
C. has seen them before this summer.

Cambridge
Wea. [Weather] WED. [Wednesday] July 4, 1906 Ther. [Thermometer]
Cloudy most of day with occasional
light showers.
  Spent A.M. in museum with Walter.
Sam Henshaw and Ben Curtis dined with
C. [Caroline] and me on back piazza 1 P.M. Wrote
letters in P.M. & walked up Highland St.
with Larry. A Robin, Yellow Warbler,
Yellow thr. Vireo [yellow-throated vireo], Yl. bill Cuckoo [yellow-billed cuckoo], Chippy [chipping sparrow]
and Flicker singing in garden. Two young Orioles
seen there. The spraying last May and June has
protected most of foliage & there are but
few Gypsy moths on the place.

Wea. [Weather] Thursday 5 [July 5, 1906] Ther. [Thermometer]
Clear & cool with light E. [east] wind.
  C. [Caroline] has had "Betty" & the summer
cariole brought from Concord during the
past week and this morning she drove
me around Fresh Pond. It was very
pretty there with chickory in full bloom.
Two men fishing from boat. Kingfisher
flying about. Spent most of day in
Museum. Surprise party for me at dinner
at Oakley Club at evening. C., Bessy Jefferson
& Howard, Walter & Margie, George & Mary
Deanne, Mr. Leverett.  We got home at 
9.30 p.m.  Our house alive with mosquitoes.
They come freely through the screens.