Concord - Cambridge.
Ther. [Thermometer] MON. [Monday] AUG. 22, 1910 August 22, 1910] Wea. [Weather]
Fine
Clear & cool with little or no wind.
The river & sky & woods were
all entrancingly beautiful and the
air was sweet with delicious
fragrance when I stepped out of
the cabin door early this morning.
After breakfast & a walk behind
the hill I crossed the river & took
the 8.14 train for Cambridge.
Reaching home at 9.20 I went 
to work at once on my usual
task keeping at it all day. C. [Caroline Brewster]
was in the Museum all the 
forenoon busy on her typewriter.
I noted no birds in the Garden
except 4 or 5 Robins, 2 or 3 Jays,
several Crows & a Swift overhead.
Mr. & Mrs. Scudder called in the 
evening. E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] returned from
Monadnock Saturday night.
Cambridge.
Ther. [Thermometer] TUES. [Tuesday] AUG. 23, 1910 [August 23, 1910] Wea. [Weather]
Fine
Clear & warmer with light S.W. [southwest] wind
A good summer day almost too
warm & humid for comfort, however.
C. [Caroline Brewster] & I worked all the forenoon
in the Museum as usual and I 
kept at it all the afternoon, also,
up to half-past six yet the 
total results of my labors were
but two pages of new manuscript.
Billcliffe came in the afternoon
to get my final instructions
about the skylight in my study I
then bricked in apple & root closet
in Museum cellar which he is 
to put in as soon as we leave
the house 1st of next month.
C. had Miss Lintrop this evening.
E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read to me in the hall.
Heard a Sparrow Hawk screaming in 
early morning also a Red-eye singing.
A Screech Owl wailing in lindens 9 P.M.