Boston - Cambridge - Boston.
Ther. [Thermometer] SUN. [Sunday] DEC. 24, 1911 [December 24, 1911] Wea. [Weather]
Fair
Mostly cloudy with a little pale
sunlight streaming through at intervals.
Mild. No frost in ground, lawns
green everywhere, pools unskimmed with ice.
  To Athletic Club at 9 A.M. Wrote
some letters there & took cars to Cambridge
11.40. Crossing Harvard Bridge I saw
a little below it 4 Ducks & just above 
it about 50. Certainly most and I 
think all of them were Scaups but
whether Greater or Lower I could not make
sure from the rapid-moving car. All
were gone when I recrossed the bridge at 1.
My visit to Cambridge was made to get
some forgotten things at our house where
I spent half an hour. In P.M. C. [Caroline Brewster] & 
I called on Harry & May C. whom we 
found at home & on Frank Manning
who was out. At 7 P.M. we went
to St. Pauls' on Tremont St. where we
heard a musical service of exquisite
beauty. The Church impressed me deeply 
with its perfect symmetry & quiet simplicity.
[margin]Saw a Sparrow Hawk flying past the "Abbotsford" at 3 P.M.[/margin]
Boston
Ther. [Thermometer] MON. [Monday] DEC. 25, 1911 [December 25, 1911] Wea. [Weather]
Christmas at the Abbotsford. Fine
Brilliantly clear & just pleasantly
cool without frost. Wind light fr. W.
C. [Caroline Brewster] went to early service at Trinity
and to St. Johns Cambridge for the 
regular forenoon services with Lizzy Fuller
My hip was paining me a good 
deal so I got no further than 
the Athletic Club where I 
spent almost the whole forenoon
talking with the Americanized
Englishman, Mr. [?], a
man whom I have long known &
liked. C. & I lunched & dined 
together at the Abbotsford. We
spent the afternoon & evening talking
& reading in our rooms. These
we have brightened with wreaths,
mistletoe and pot plants (azalea,
begonia & broom) which I got at 
the "Rosary" last evening.