Cambridge - Boston
Ther. [Thermometer]   FRI. APRIL 28, 1911 [Friday, April 28, 1911]  Wea.[Weather]
80 maximum [80 degrees maximum]        Fine
Another Summerlike day, cloudless
calm & uncomfortably warm. Vegetation
advancing rapidly. Larches green with
young foliage & horse chestnut [?]
unfolded on a few trees. Forsythia &
Mertensia beginning to flower. Mosquitos [mosquitoes] out
& a Garden Toad trilling in our pond.
Tulips, hyacinths & [?] in full bloom
2 Hermits [hermit thrushes], 2 Chippies [chipping sparrows], 7 Grackles & 4 Robins
in the Garden.
  Left house at 8.45 & joined Mackintire
at City Hall at 9. We made our [?]
tax return to assessor  - & I took oath
to its correctness. I then made my personal
return orally based on a letter written 
last year. The assessor said I need not 
swear to it & I did not.Went in
town with M. & was at office until 2.
Met Miss Purdie by chance. H.M. Spelman
came to [?] at Keyes Estate [?]
I got home at 3 P.M. & read until 6.
Called at Cunard office & gave up [?]
[margin] passage ticket for [?] [?] [?] May 2. Hope to have money refunded. [/margin]
Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer]   SAT. APRIL 29, 1911 [Saturday, April 29, 1911]  Wea. [Weather]
78 max. [78 degrees maximum]         Fine
Still another clear, calm unseasonably
warm day with light S.E. [southeast] wind.
I spent it in Museum writing letters.
Had a call from H.L. Blackwell
my tenant, in P.M. He proposes that
I allow him $200. annually for repairs etc.
I said I would consider it.
  Four Robins, a Chippy & 8 Crow Black-
birds seen & a Downy [downy woodpecker] heard in Gardens.
The Grackles came to bathe in the
little pond about noon. I watched
them from gate inside the front
door of Museum where I had a 
fine view of them. They were easily
divided as to sex. The males wore
splendid feathers with their burnished
bronze coats shining in the sunlight.
They seemed afraid of the Goldfish 
sidling off when they approached.
C.[Caroline]& E.[Elizabeth R. Simmons] went to the Opera with their
Bee in P.M. They read aloud to
me this evening.
3 Garden Toads in pond, 1 trilling, 2 paired.