Glendale
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, July 23, 1915 Wea [Weather]
Fine
Brilliantly clear and no more
than comfortably warm with light
westerly breeze.
  Robins still singing delightfull [delightfully] at
all hours but less vigorously and
ceaselessly than two or three days ago.
Wood [Wood Thrush] & Hermit Thrushes altogether silent
even at sunset. Chippies [Chipping Sparrow] & Red-eyes [Red-eyed Vireo]
as incessantly vocal as ever. Wood Pewee
singing a little. Swifts apparently
increasing in numbers. Nine of them
flying about together at evening. Swallows
becoming scarcer every day.
  The tiny young Rabbit that lives in a
burrow in front of the house dashed
towards it over the lawn at top speed
this evening pursued by a dog. Strange
to say it looks no bigger than it did a 
month ago.
  Spent day in room writing letters. Jack
Daragh & Dwight Partridge departed at noon
Albert Fletcher, Reggie Sturgis & Mr. & Mrs.
arrived a few hours later. Mrs. French's
at home afternoon. Hosts of people came,
among them Joseph Choate.

Glendale
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, July 24, 1915 Wea [Weather]
Fine
Brilliantly clear with absolutely cloudless
sky and little or no wind. Cool in
early morning; agreeably warm through day.
  Two Robins singing steadily & well
through earlier part of afternoon, Red-eyes [Red-eyed Vireo]
& Chippies [Chipping Sparrow] all day. Wood Pewee sang
a little and so did a Bluebird (at 8 A.M. &
again at sunset). The Wood Thrushes
remained silent until after sunset when
one uttered a few clear, ringing notes.
Swifts becoming increasingly numerous
from day to day, whirling about in
parties of eight or nine towards evening
and dropping one after another into the
studio chimney. Their fluttering descents
into it remind of those birds only
partially disabled by gun shot wounds.
  Worked in my room all day
on correspondence and Concord bird
notes. Dan [Daniel Chester French] returned from New York
at 6.15 after which we were together
for half an hour. Evening spent in studio
Edith Dana's funeral at St. John's [St. John's Memorial Chapel], Cambridge
at 11 A.M. to-day.