Oxford.
Ther. [Thermometer] SUN. [Sunday] AUG. 8, 1909 [August 8, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
Clear
Cloudless, calm, very warm.
  Breakfast 8.30. Spent forenoon
writing up diary & journal. At 12.10
C. & I walked to her friend Prof
MacDonalds' to call by he was engaged
& his wife was out. More writing after
dinner. At 5 P.M. we went
to Christ's Church. Beautiful 
service. Church crowd, mostly 
with English ladies in pretty
summer dresses. They interested
me greatly. Salvation Army
gathering in street as we went
back. After supper walked
half around Park. It was
thronged with people. Not 
many birds there. Plenty about
our house but only a few in
song now.

Oxford to London.
47 miles by Thames steamer.
Ther. [Thermometer] MON. [Monday] AUG. 9, 1909 [August 9, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
Clear
  Cloudless & warm. Light S. [South] wind.
Breakfast 7.30. Drove in cab to Folly Bridge
to take river boat for Henley. We had to wait
1/2 hour before it started (9.30). Reached Henley
at 7.30 P.M. & took 7.40 train for London,
arriving at 9.10 & taking 4 wheeler to Hall's
Hotel, Cork St., where we met E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons], Miss
Allyn & Miss Howard. 
  Our trip down the Thames, covered a
distance of 47 miles. The beauty & interest
of the stream & the abundance & variety of
its bird life simply amazed me. Some
of the scenery is scarce inferior in wildness
& picturesqueness to anything we have in New
England & its cultivated beauties far exceed
anything we can boast of. As for the birds -
they literally swarm. I saw two species
new to me, the Kingfisher (4 birds) & the
Common Sandpiper (1). Saw 2 [in a flock] Kestrels,
fully 500 Moor Hens, 4 Dabchicks, a [female]
Mallard, innumerable Rooks & Starlings,
about 300 Lapwings, 6 or 8 Wagtails, 200 or 
more Wood Pigeons, 100 Stock Doves, 20
Turtle Doves & hosts of smaller birds. 
Saw only two large Dragon Flies & about 5 
[?], Cabbage Butterflies by thousands
but no other kind. Myriads of Swallows, Martins
& Sand Martins. 4 Emus in Earl Harcourts grounds
Scores of Black & a dozen or more white Swans.
[margin]Boat crowded, chiefly with English people
most friendly & cordial I accidentally knocked man's hat into river.[/margin]