Cambridge.
Ther. [Thermometer] Sat. [Saturday] Dec. 4, 1909 [December 4, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
Fine
Brilliantly clear, calm, rather
mild.
  Spent day in Museum working
on Merrill Memorial. Finished 
it practically by supper time
and absolutely by 10.30 P.M.
Lizzy, to whom I read it, thinks
it good. It has cost me a lot
of hard work done, of necessity,
within a very limited time.
  Packed my trunk in late
afternoon. Patsey & his three
men worked all day putting
up pines about the rhododendrons
and got the winter covering on
the ponds. A Flicker & a
Blue Jay seen in Garden.

Cambridge - New York City.
Ther. [Thermometer] Sun. [Sunday] Dec. 5, 1909 [December 5, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
Fine. Cloudless, calm, mild. A perfect
day typical of early November weather.
With E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] took the 10.07 A.M 
for New York. Mr. & Mrs. C.F.
Batchelder were in the next car. 
I talked with them a good deal.
Saw a few Crows & a small 
flock of Robins near New Haven.
The coloring of the woods, pastures
& marshes was very rich and
varied but wholly made up by
the stems & twigs of the trees &
bushes & by the dead grass. There
was little green in the fields yet
we saw cattle out in plains
most of them smaller ponds frozen over.
Took rooms at Murray Hill. C. [Caroline Brewster] &
Miss Swasey joined us at 6.30 &
dined with us but they returned
to their Martha Washington for night.