Wea. [Weather] Fri. [Friday] Aug. 3, 1906 [August 3, 1906] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Cloudy with cool E. [east] wind.
Heavy rain after dark & through night.
  Spent day in Museum writing 
letters etc. Gilbert went to Concord.
Walter with me through forenoon.
We sent off more "Birds of Cambridge".
I have distributed nearly 100 copies
thus far. O.A. Lothrop took tea
with me on back piazza & spent
evening. No birds sang in garden to-day.
Save a Red-eye & he but feebly.

Wea. [Weather] Saturday 4 [August 4, 1906] Ther. [Thermometer] 
  Cloudy with frequent showers
of fine rain in A.M. & a succession
of heavy thunder showers in
late P.M.
  Spent A.M. in Museum writing
letters. To Concord with Purdie [Henry A. Purdie] 
by 4.47 train from Boston in P.M.
Forbush met us at W. Bedford [West Bedford] with
rubber coats & books. We waited in
station over an hour until the
heavy rain ceased & then crossed
the river & walked to the farm.
It was hot, sultry & calm.

Wea. [Weather] Sun. [Sunday] Aug. [August] 5, 1906 Ther. [Thermometer]
  Cloudless, calm, humid, intensely hot.
  Purdie [Henry A. Purdie] & I walked about the farm
after breakfast & to Petersens at 11 A.M.
We went to Ball's Hill in P.M.
spending an hour or more with Forbush
in his cabin which was agreeably cool.
It was stifling everywhere in the
woods & blinding hot in the fields & roads.
Birds sang rather freely in early morning
when I heard Song sparrows, Field Sparrows, 
Wood Peewees, Indigo Bird.
 
Wea. [Weather] Monday 6 [August 6, 1906] Ther. [Thermometer] 
93 [degrees] max [maximum]
  Clear with light S.W. [southwest] wind. The
hottest day of the summer thus far. A
thunder shower in late P.M. cooled the air a little.
  Purdie [Henry A. Purdie] Gilbert & I drove to Concord to
take the 8.06 A.M. train. I reached
home at 9.30 and spent day in
Museum writing letters & notes. Almost
every mail brings letters of acknowledgement
for my book. All seem appreciative
& some are very kind especially one
from Faxon & another from Witmer Stone.