Cambridge.
Ther. [Thermometer] SUN. [Sunday] MAR. 13, 1910 [March 13, 1910] Wea. [Weather]
Fine.
Sunny but hazy with chill east wind.
The plague of dust is upon us again.
It is stirred up incessantly by the 
automobiles & hangs over Brattle St.
like a pall of smoke.
C. [Caroline Brewster] & I walked down to church at
10.30. Dr. Hodges preached as usual.
Miss Knapp sat & walked back with 
us. Mr. & Mrs. Fitch, Miss Allyn &
Miss Howard dined with us.
I left them at 3 & wrote letters until 
6. At 6.30 C. & I went to tea
at Sarah Russell Bates'. No one
else there. She talked incessantly, in
a slow monologue, until 8.15 when we
came home. having said scarce a word.
The Garden rang with Flicker music
from morning to night, all from one
bird "shouting" ceaselessly. A Crow
Blackbird then "creaking" & crows cawing.
Heard a Downy in the Jungle but did not see 
him.
Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer] MON. [Monday] MAR. 14, 1910 [March 14, 1910] Wea. [Weather]
Fine
Clear & cool with strong, harsh
north-west wind.
  Spent day in Museum working on
reply to Dwight which nears completion.
Watson telephoned that Bassett is now
willing to resign within 2 years if he
may serve that time at same compensation
a my cousin received & be treated courteously
by all of it. This he will promise only orally,
however, but in presence of witnesses. I
said to W. over telephone I would consider
proposition & consult with Abbott et. al about
it. Said also it struck me rather favorably
at first blush. Wrote Abbott & Arthur & saw
Almy about it this evening. Almy is doubtful
about wisdom of accepting it & so am I now.
Dr. A.M. Tuttle, with a friend, called at 5 P.M.
bringing me a mounted Richardson's Owl as
a present, a Massachusetts specimen, very large.
E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read Mrs. Gaskell 8.30 -9.30 P.M.
C. [Caroline Brewster] went to bed early, being very tired.
At sunrise I rose & opened my window
hearing at once Crows cawing, a Jay
screaming, a Flicker shouting & then [?] of
lisping chirp of some sparrow I think Passerella