Oxford.
Ther. [Thermometer] WED. [Wednesday] SEPT 15, 1909 [September 15, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
Partly cloudy.
Alternately sunny & gray. Rather warm.
C. [Caroline Brewster], E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] & Miss Howard went off
early for day at Warwick & Stratford.
I spent most of day in my little
smoke room down stairs, writing letters
paying bills, etc. Walked down
town & back in P.M. calling at
Blackwell's book store and buying
two old pictures one, a shooting scene, 
at a picture shop, the other, entitled
"Starting for the Fair", at the antiques
shop. Miss Allyn & I had afternoon
tea at 5 P.M. Howard joined us a
little later. C. & the others got back
at 7.30. We had the brace of
Black Game for dinner. I like them
best of British birds & next to them
the Partridge. Grouse I do not care for.
Mr. Whitwell called on us at 8.30 &
stayed until 10.30, a bright man.
Oxford.
Ther. [Thermometer] THURS. [Thursday] SEPT. 16, 1909 [September 16, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
Foul.
Cloudy with showers. Very mild
  Spent most of day indoors, in
my little den, writing up my journal.
Went out about noon to call on
Capt. Rynd at the County Hospital
of which he is the Head. He took
me all over it a most interesting
place with all the latest improvements
but ill-heated from our American point
of view & with beds as hard as rocks.
Also he showed me his tortoises,
fish, mussels etc. in a large, circular
pool of clear water in the outer courtyard.
The Japanese ivy on the walls of this
hospital & that on those of the old
stone house in front of Mrs. Bothe's,
has turned the most vivid scarlet &
crimson in the last week. I have never
seen it finer colored in America. I
have seen no trace of any bright coloring
yet in native English or Scotch foliage.
We read aloud in the parlor all this evening