Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer] TUES. [Tuesday]. MAR. [March] 9, 1909 Wea. [Weather]
  Stormy
Cloudy & chilly raining steadily
all afternoon. Wind east. 
  Spent day in Museum
writing letters, copying bird notes etc.
  Plant stand in my den taken
down this morning & chosen pots
of white & yellow tulips sent around
to the neighbors. Some are very 
fine now. We have stand in
dining room filled, a brave show. 
  C. [Caroline] spent day packing trunks. 
  We sat in hall after dinner. C.
finished Lord Cromer’s Egypt. We
have been at it all winter. 
  The parlor & huggermugger closed now. 
  Heard a Flicker & a Blue Jay 
in Garden. About 2 doz. [2 dozen] white & 
lavender crocuses in bloom front of 
house & 6 or 8 yellow ones at Museum.
Cambridge - Boston.
Ther. [Thermometer] WED. [Wednesday]. MAR. [March] 10, 1909 Wea. [Weather]
  Cloudy.
  Cloudy & chilly. Dense fog in early
morning. Snow & ice almost wholly gone.
Streets deep in mud.
  Spent forenoon in Museum
writing letters. Made out a new
private cable code for C. & me.
  To Boston at 3.30 to attend
meeting [of] Directors [of] Audubon Society at
Mrs. Cabot's. Harry Bigelow in car.
He says Dr. Phillips is just back
from Cat Id. La. [Cat Island, Louisiana] with news that
there are no birds there & never have been
any. He considers it a promotor's [promoter's] scheme.
  Meeting interesting. Mrs. Cabot, Mrs. Elliot,
Mrs. Bolles, Miss Kimball, Hoffmann,
Allen, Bigelow & Forbush there.
Miss Kitty Thompson called on us this eve [evening].
Heard a Flicker & a Blue Jay in
the garden.