Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer] THURS. [Thursday] JULY 21, 1910 Wea. [Weather]
Fine.
Cloudless with fresh west wind.
A perfect summer day, just comfortably
warm.
  Working most of day on the
Umbagog book, C. [Caroline Brewster] copying all the
forenoon. At 4 P.M. I went to
work in the Garden with George.
We did a lot of pruning in
the lilacs & other shrubbery at the
rear of the house.
  C. went to evening service & R.T.
Jackson took supper with me on
the back piazza. We had a walk
in the Garden afterwards. He left
about 8.
  I hear very few Cicadas, scarce over
a week. Leopard Moths have attacked
several of our trees, especially elms.
but have done no serious harm as
yet.

Cambridge.
Ther. [Thermometer] FRI. [Friday] JULY 22, 1910 Wea. [Weather]
75 [degrees] Fair.
Forenoon sunny; afternoon cloudy.
Pleasantly warm - or cool.
  C. [Caroline Brewster] & I spent the forenoon
in the usual way. I am
still working at the introduction
and still making poor progress.
  In the afternoon C. & I walked
over to the Botanic Garden where
we stayed about an hour. No
sooner had we entered it than I
heard a Red-winged Blackbird
calling by the lily pond. Before I
could get there he flew off in pursuit
of a crow. Returning he perched in the
top of a lilac bush & sang a dozen
times or more. I next started a [female] & at
least 3 bob-tailed young from the edge of the
pond. A gardener told me that the old 
birds have been constantly about the pond
for 3 months or more. It has two large &
dense clusters of cat-tails.
C. read the de Willoughby Claim to me this 
evening.