London
Ther. [Thermometer] TUES. [Tuesday] AUG. 10, 1909 [August 10, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
Fine
  Cloudless, calm, very warm.
Spent forenoon in coffee room
writing up my journal for the 
delightful river trip of yesterday. 
  In afternoon C. [Caroline Brewster], E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons], Miss Howard
& I spent about two hours in 
National Gallery. I remembered very
many of the pictures. Rembrant [Rembrandt] 
impresses me as the greatest of all
& next to him Van Dyck.
  At 5 P.M. I strolled through
Haymarket & Pall Mall. Everything,
almost seemed changed. The 
taxicabs & automobiles are very 
numerous & the motor busses [buses] have 
well nigh replaced the horse-drawn ones.  
  Bought a straw hat & had hair cut. 
  We all dined together at 7. C read
aloud after dinner. Halls is a small
quiet old fashioned hotel, very nice. Saw
a Wood Pigeon on its [?] to-day. 
London
Ther. [Thermometer] WED. [Wednesday] AUG. 11, 1909 [August 11, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
Fine
  Cloudless, calm, very warm &
humid. Typical dog-day weather. 
  Spent entire day shopping
revisiting several of the stores I
became familiar with in 1891, among
them Cordings, Capper & Waters, 
& Allen’s trunk store. The Arcade
was new ground. Bought three
pipes, a bath robe, 1 doz. [dozen] silk 
handkerchiefs, some neck ties &
a few other trifles. The good things
are much more expensive than they 
were in 1891. This is especially true
of leather trunks & portmanteaus. 
  Lunched and dined at our
hotel. E.R.S. not well to-day.
The weather is really oppressively
warm & sultry now. This evening 
we are suffering from it. 