Cambridge.
Ther. [Thermometer] Wed. [Wednesday] Nov. 22, 1911 [November 22, 1911] Wea. [Weather]
Fine
Clear & cool with fresh N.W. [Northwest] wind.
It is still autumn, not winter here
the lawns remaining vivid green and 
the ground unfrozen except on the surface.
  Spent day in Museum writing
letters and cheques for bills. Gilbert
has appealed to me through C. [Caroline Brewster] to
help him meet debts incurred largely
because of the accident to his boy two
years ago & his wife's illness last spring. 
I paid his tax bill ( ) and
one of his doctor's bills ($75.) by cheque
on the Estabrook & Co. account to-day.
Nothing said between us or to how I
shall be repaid.
  E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] now wholly out of danger but
not improving rapidly & still in bed.
C. with her every forenoon. C. read 
Rockwood Hoar's life to me this evening
Heard Blue Jays & Chickadees in 
the Garden.

Cambridge.
Ther. [Thermometer] Thurs. [Thursday] Nov. 23, 1911 [November 23, 1911] Wea. [Weather]
Fair
Forenoon sunny; afternoon cloudy.
Cool with little or no wind.
  Spent day in Museum revising
The Purdie Memorial and adding
a little to it here and there.
  C. [Caroline Brewster] came back from her forenoon 
with E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] at the Thayers' very
tired & depressed. We lunched together
& she read a little to me afterwards
but later she had a bad nervous
breakdown. I telephoned to Miss Lintrop
who came out at 7.30 to give her a
massage treatment. Lizzy Fuller came
over at 7 to dine with me. At 8.10
H.L. Barrett of Jamaica Plain whom I had
never seen before came by appointment to see
some of my birds. He feels sure he saw a
King Eider at Nahant last Tuesday. He seems 
trustworthy & I liked him. He stayed until
10.30. A Blue Jay & a Chickadee in Garden
a [female] Downy in the lindens.