London - Larbert
Ther. [Thermometer] SAT. [Saturday] SEPT. 11, 1909 [September 11, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
Partly fine.
Forenoon cloudy; afternoon sunny,
brilliantly clear just before sunset.
Left London by L.&N.W. R.R. [London and North Western Railway] at 10.05
A.M. & reached Larbert, Scotland about
7 P.M. The corridor train, a through
express, made few stops & ran at times
exceedingly fast. It had a dining car in
which I got an excellent lunch. Spent
most of day watching swift flying
landscape & the innumerable birds.
Near border we passed big mountains
covered with grass & blooming heather.
Here & beyond farm buildings mostly
one-storied, of stone, whitewashed, & fields
divided by stone walls. Saw immense
numbers of Rooks, Starlings & Lapwings,
many Gulls, one Partridge, 2 Pheasants.
Harris-Brown's trap met me at station. At
house I found 4 or 5 sportsmen just in from
grouse drive with guns & about 50 birds
piled up in hall. Warm welcome.

Larbert, Scotland.
Ther. [Thermometer] SUN. [Sunday] SEPT. 12, 1909 [September 12, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
Stormy
Cloudy with fine, drizzling rain.
Spent entire day & long evening in dining
room talking with Harvie-Brown & his
friend Col. Campbell. The former has
grown enormously stout & is unable to
move about freely but is as bright &
jolly as ever; the latter, tall, lean, erect,
dignified yet genial has served in
India & latterly as Commandant of Perth
prison. Both are deeply interested in
agates of which Harvie-Brown has made
a large collection of late. He lost all his
birds & eggs by fire in 1897. He has many
fine game heads (65 of Chamois) & in hall 
a beautiful m't'd [mounted] Scotch Wild Cat & Badger
& interesting series of mounted trout etc.
His ornithological library is very large &
valuable & he has lots of other books.
His hair is bushy & coal black, his beard
straggling & fiery red.