Cambridge. Concord. Boston 
Wea. [Weather] Wed. [Wednesday] July 18, 1906 Ther. [Thermometer]
  Clear & warm with light S.W. [southwest] wind.
  To West Bedford with Gilbert by 8.34
train. Crossed river & walked to Ritchie
place. Barn & shed wholly gone the ruins
still smoking. The neighbors got out all our
farming tools & the old Goddard buggy. 6 tons
oat fodder, 3000 ft. [feet] chestnut planks, 400 ft. [feet]
pine slabs & 3/4 ton phosphate were burned.
Dined at farm house & took electrics W. Bedford [West Bedford]
to Cambridge at 2 P.M. reaching home about 4.
The very last signatures Birds of Cambridge
printed to-day. Walter is very tired by his final
work on this task.

Wea. [Weather] Thursday 19 [July 19, 1906] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Clear and warm.
  Devoted most of day to Duve the
Cambridge furniture mover. He called by appoin'ent [appointment]
at Museum at 9 A.M. & at our Boston office
at 2 P.M. He is financially embarrassed &
C. [Caroline] & I decided to help him out if his story
proved true. He deceived us however as I
found out this evening by telephoning to
Dr. Trueman of Somerville to whom he
claimed he had paid $500. for an operation.
Called on Mr. Leverett at his office 12 n. [noon] He
advises me not to consent to changing our
U.S. to Mass. Bonds. Afterwards told Buttrick
& Bemis of this. Got home at 5.30.

Cambridge - Concord.
Wea. [Weather] FRI. [Friday] July 20, 1906 Ther. [Thermometer]
   Forenoon sunny; afternoon cloudy. Warm.
Duve called at 9 A.M. I accused him of
deceiving me about his debts etc. He at first
denied & finally confessed it. I then told him
we should not help him.
  Mrs. Wyman, Mrs. Howland & E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons]
took tea with C. [Caroline] & me on back piazza
at 6.30. Young Curtis & a boy friend of
his called at 8 P.M. Walter & Margie D. [Walter & Margie Deane]
went to Shelburne N.H. [Shelburne, New Hampshire] to-day. A stitched
copy with plates Birds of Cambridge sent to
me from binders for approval this morning.

Wea. [Weather] Saturday 21 [July 21, 1906] Ther [Thermometer]
   Cloudy, calm oppressively sultry. Tremendous
thunder shower 7-8 P.M.
  To Concord by 9.06 A.M. Fitchburg R.R. train.
Tuttle's man drove me to farm where I met
Gilbert & Forbush. Dined there & drove to
Ball's Hill in farm wagon at 5 P.M.
  Paddled up river in Stella Maris canoe
& floated for an hour opposite Bensen's landing. 
Counted 162 Red-wings flying to west.
Two Night Herons [black-crowned night herons] & 5 [in a flock] Black Ducks passed
over high up. The mosquitoes are falling off
Bull Frogs & Green Frogs have nearly become
silent. A quiet comfortable night