Wea. [Weather] FRI. DEC. 4, 1908 [Friday, December 4, 1908] Ther. [Thermometer]
Cloudy with light rain.
  Spent day in house.
My cough bad. Dr. Jarrett came at
8.30. Walter called later.
I read & C. [Caroline] read aloud to me.
I was in the den most of day.
Have given up smoking for
this time. I cough heavily
& frequently by day & still more
so at night.
Wea. [Weather] SATURDAY 5 [Saturday, December 5, 1908] Ther. [Thermometer]
Clear & cool with W. [west] wind.
  Spent day in house in the Den.
Read most of time. Dr.Jarrett
called in forenoon. I saw no one
else, except Miss Swazey who dined
with us. She & C. [Caroline] went to some
theatricals in Boston in P.M. &
E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] went to Dramatic Club
performance this evening when C. [Caroline]
read aloud to me in the hall.
My cough better to-day but still
not a little troublesome.
Wea. [Weather] SUN. DEC. 6, 1908 [Sunday, December 6, 1908] Ther. [Thermometer]
Clear, calm, mild.
  Spent day in house. My
cough better. Read & looked over
old photographs. Dr. Grenfell,
Frank Manning & Miss Allyn
dined with us at 1.30. Dr. Grenfell
went in town with C. about 3 P.M.
  Frank stayed an hour later talking
& smoking in the hall.

Wea. [Weather] MONDAY 7 [Monday, December 7, 1908]  Ther. [Thermometer]
Cloudy with violent S.E. [southeast] wind and a
flood of rain.
  Spent day in Museum writing
letters etc. Discovered that the collection 
of bird nests in the gallery is badly
infested with [Anthrinae?] They have done
a lot of damage & are distributed through
at least eight or ten large [cans?]. How Walter [Walter Deane]
& Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] can have let them get such a
foothold I cannot understand. Nuttall Club
meeting this evening. I read a short 
paper on birds spreading gypsy moths.