English Lakes - Furness Abbey
Ther. [Thermometer] Sat. [Saturday] Sept. 25, 1909 [September 25, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
Dull.
 Early morning clear: rest of day
cloudy. Rather warm.
  Col. Clough Taylor [Edward Harrison Clough-Taylor] & his wife,
Lady Mary [Lady Mary Stuart-Richardson] departed this morning.
I like him better than any man I
have met this year in England.
 We started for Furness Abbey at 
11 A.M. Went by boat to foot of
L. Windermere [Lake Windermere], thence by rail.
Lunched at Abbey Hotel at 1.30.
Spent more than an hour at the
Abbey. It is inferior to Fountain
Abbey in beauty but nevertheless is a
most impressive & picturesque ruin.
  Robins & Starlings singing there, a Dove
cooing, a great mob of Rooks &
Jackdaws clamoring. Saw great numbers
of Lapwings on sands of tidal river. 
About 80 Little Black Head Gulls & a
dozen or more Swans on Lake. Got
[margin]back to Windermere about 6.15.[/margin]

English Lakes - Windermere.
Ther. [Thermometer] Sun. [Sunday] Sept. 26, 1909 [September 26, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
Dull.
 Cloudy, calm, cool.
  Spent entire day in hotel. Talked
all forenoon in smoking room with an
Englishman of exceptional intelligence
who arrived here last evening. He spent
three months in Trinidad in 1896 & met
Lickfold & Henry Warner there.
  Worked on journal most of afternoon.
We had reading aloud in C's [Caroline Brewster] room before
& after dinner finishing A Recipe for
Diamonds by Cutliff Hine [Cutliff Hyne], a capital story.
  Two Starlings on the weather cock frame in
front of house "reeling" & whistling by turns
most of forenoon. Robins singing in every
direction far & near through entire day,
three of them close about our house. Wherever
one goes through this town now he is never
for a minute out of sound of the Robin's song
so evenly & numerously are the birds distributed.