Cambridge - Boston
Ther. [Thermometer] Fri. [Friday] Aug. [August] 26,1910. Wea. [Weather]
Mixed.
Forenoon cloudy with heavy thunder 
shower. Afternoon sunny and cooler.
  I started for Boston just as the
showers began. Reached our office 
about 11.  Sargent & Lord there:
Judge Bell did not come. We 
interviewed two candidates for the
place vacated by Harthorne but
neither proved satisfactory.
  I took Lord out to lunch at the
Bunch O'Grapes. Left the office 
at 2.30 and went to Wilkinson's
where I bought rope & chain for Concord
Got home at 3.45 & packed my 
things for the start for Bethel to-morrow
A Phyllocereus plant I have had for 
years opened two blossoms last night
& a third to-night. We missed seeing the
two but spent most of the evening
admiring the third. Mrs. Scudder & Miss
Brown came to see it. I escorted them
home. Heard night call of Veery at 9 P.M.

Cambridge - Bethel
Ther. [Themometer] Sat. [Saturday] Aug. 27,1910 [August 27,1910] Wea. [Weather]
Fine
Clear & cool with fresh N.W [North West] wind.
Left Boston by 9 A.M. train. 
Eastern Div. and reached Bethel at 
4.20 P.M. going all the way through 
in a parlor car.  Read a magazines 
most of time. Mr. Rantoul on
train going to Shelburne. Talked with 
him for a hour or more. He has
been at Ellis Bay, Anticosti, this
summer. He says Canada Geese breed
there in immense numbers & are well
protected. No shooting is allowed for
game of any kind save by Menier
himself & his friends.
  Met Dr. G [Dr. John George Gehring] at the house. We had our
usual walk about place before dinner.
Very interesting evening in lounge.
Miss Adams & Miss South of Chicago
told us about a visit to Tolstor &
Miss Foulks sang delightfully.
I am quartered in Green Gables.