Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer] TUES. [Tuesday] DEC. 14, 1909 [December 14, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
Fine
Clear, calm, very mild.
  Spent day in Museum
devoting most of forenoon
to planning, with Gilbert’s help, 
further rearrangements of the books. 
Billcliffe & another carpenter 
began work at noon on a new 
tier of book shelves for the 
gallery in the large room. 
 I had started to write letters
in mid afternoon when Ruthven
Deane called. He spent nearly 
two hours with me and was 
as entertaining as usual. He
says Mr. Brown of Belmont heard
a Mt. Tom Wild Turkey years ago. 
I think I heard Chickadees in 
the Garden & am sure I 
heard a Blue Jay. 
Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer] WED. [Wednesday] DEC. 15, 1909 [December 15, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
Fine
Sunny but hazy; calm; mild.
Spent day in Museum overseeing
rearrangement of cases etc. in Big
room where Billcliffe put up one
new book case & prepared for a 
second. George dug up all the
remaining pots of tulips in the garden
where the frosts has been wholly talken
out by the recent rain & mild weather.
At 5.30 P.M. E.R.S [Elizabeth R. Simmons] started for
Boston in haste, in a carriage, to meet
C. [Caroline Brewster] who had come on from New York
by one of the noon trains without
sending definite word in advance. At
least no word had come when I saw E.
about 4 P.M. She got off before I saw her again
but C. had to wait at the station I believe.
I dined at 5.45 and went in town a little
later to a "We Dine" at Townsend's. Everyone
but Chadbourne was there. We had a rather 
hot discussion of the Cook-Perry matter
after dinner.
[margin]At 4.15 P.M. heard the Carolina Wren in hemlocks in clothes yard
calling teetleee many times[/margin]
[margin]Saw a shrike perched on a tall tree in garden - at 8 AM
[delete]& a Flicker later[/delete] & later a Flicker & a Downy.[/margin]
