Cambridge
Wea. [Weather] ThUR. NOV. 26, 1908 [Thursday, November 26, 1908] Ther. [Thermometer]
Cloudy, calm, mild with misty rain.
Thanksgiving Day. C. [Caroline] & I attended
service at St. Johns in forenoon.
Geo V. ? & Mrs. Mansfield dined
with C., E.R.S [Elizabeth R. Simmons] & me at 1.30. Mr.
Leverett stayed on until 5 P.M. talking
with me in the Museum where Ruthven
Deane joined us at 4.30, staying
until 6.15. C. & E.R.S.  read aloud
in the hall in the evening. I saw no 
birds in garden to-day.
Wea. [Weather] FRIDAY 27 [Friday, November 27, 1908] Ther. [Thermometer]
Clear & cooler (but not frosty) with fresh W. [west] wind.
Spent day in Museum. [?] called
at 10 A.M. with some papers from Nat.
Audubon Soc.[National Audubon Society] for me to sign. He sent
for Ames to witness them as notary.
Edward Emerson called at 2.30. I
walked with him to Memorial Hall
whence he kept on to call on Miss Norton.
Soon after my return I had a visit from
John Farley who brought me in the flesh
a fine Skua killed in Nova Scotia by a
fisherman to whom I sent $5 for [?] [?]
is to make a skin of it for me.
[margin] No birds sighted to-day.[/margin]

Cambridge - Concord.
Wea. [Weather] SAT. NOV. 28, 1908 [Saturday, November 28, 1908 Ther. [Thermometer]
Clear; cool but not frosty; fresh W. [west] wind.
Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] & I took 9.08 train to Bedford
driving there by stable train to W. [West] Bedford
& crossing the river in our iron boat. No
ice, snow or frost any where. I spent
forenoon taking photographs at & near the
cabins while Gilbert painted the new tin
roofs. After lunch which I ate lying in the
sun on south slope of Ball's Hill I walked
to town where I found James & Pat loading
young pines in Birch Field. Said goodbye to
poor old Charley horse who is to be killed
soon. The new hen house is nearly finished. Took
4.24 train back to Cambridge.
Wea. [Weather] SUNDAY 29 [Sunday, November 29, 1908] Ther. [Thermometer]
Clear & cool with light W. [west] wind. 
Spent forenoon in Museum writing letters.
Charlie Lamb called bringing six
Buff-breasted Sandpipers to compare
with my [small?] series. He tells me that John
Hardy has secured one European Wigeon
shot recently in New Hampshire.
Will & Alice Stone came at 1 to 
dine with us. We had some medlars, an
odd fruit sent me by Mrs. Brown
of Philadelphia. The Stones departed
at 4.30. 2 Chickadees only birds seen
in Garden to-day.