[almanac: Moon phases, etc. December 1910]

Cambridge - Boston
Ther. [Thermometer] Sat. [Saturday] Jan. 1, 1910  [January 1, 1910] Wea. [Weather] 
5 [degrees] 28 [degrees] Fine.
Clear, calm, warmer.
  To Boston at 10 A.M. With
Mackintire visited safety vaults
(11.30) where we got the 4 notes
of Hospital Life & took them to
office of company to draw the
interest. When we took them back
(12.15) we cut off Fisk Wharf coupons.
Deposited the whole with E. & Co. about 1.
  I got a pound of black Hamburd
grapes for C. [Caroline Brewster] & came out at 2.30.
Spent rest of P.M. writing letters.
E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read John Marvel to me
after dinner.
  As I was dressing this morning I
saw a Shrike in close pursuit (about
a yard behind) a House Sparrow which
sought shelter among the broken-down
snow laden lilacs. Over these the Shrike
hovered like a Kingfisher, dropping into
them repeatedly with closed wings but
failing apparently to locate the Sparrow &
certainly failing to secure it.