Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer] MON. NOV. 22, 1909 [Monday, November 22, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
Dull.
  Cloudy & mild but chilly with
fresh east wind.
  To Boston at 9.45. Met Judge Abbott
in our office by appointment and 
talked with him over two hours about
Brewster Free Academy & Estate matters.
He expressed strong approval of the
retention during the remainder of his life, 
as Estate Trustee, with full compensation, of
my cousin J.L. Brewster; also of taking
$300 annually from the Poor Fund to
support the library (although technically this
may not be strictly legal, he said); also
of conducting a night school at expense of
Poor Fund. He says we are likely to get $40000
from [?] estate. I came out at noon
& wrote letters in Museum through P.M.
Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] went to Concord and Auburndale.
  3 Juncos & a Blue Jay in Garden. Flicker
in Hubbard Park.
Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer] TUES. NOV. 23, 1909 [Tuesday, November 23, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
Dull.
  Cloudy with a fine drizzle of rain
turning to sleet at evening. Very warm
in early morning, very chill at night.
  Spent day in Museum. Wrote
letters in A.M. In P.M. got to
work in the cellar with Gilbert &
George. Found everything in a
mess there but made a good
beginning at clearing it up.
  No callers except a man from the
American Painting Co. to talk over the
renovations at the Bruce's house. They
are laying oak floors there still.
Miriam Kettell dined with us at 7. 
Lotty Kettell takes breakfast with me now.
Lizzy is still confined to her floor & is, 
I feel, no better of her lameness.
  A Nuthatch, a Downy [Downy Woodpecker], a Blue Jay, a
Flicker & 4 Chickadees, in the Garden.
[margin]A single Cedar Bird [Cedar Waxwing] flying low over it tse-ing incessantly.[/margin]