Cambridge - Boston.
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Nov. 18, 1915 [November 18, 1915] Wea [Weather]
Perfect.
Brilliantly clear & almost perfectly
windless with warm sunlight
but keen, dry, frosty air.
Altogether an ideal late autumnal
day.
  In Garden: A Chickadee, White throat [White-throated Sparrow]
about 15 House Sparrows, a Flicker,
and a White-breasted Nuthatch
calling wot-wot-wot in lovely full
tones.
  Although most of our trees are now
quite bare a few retain autumnal
tinted foliage while that of the
ivy on Museum walls is still
abundant and very brilliant.
There are also a few flowers still blooming
At Concord yesterday I left yellow
Coreopsis, Ritchie pink, purple ladies'
delights & one dandelion, in bloom.
  Dan [Daniel Chester French] & I went about the place 
after breakfast. He departed at 9.30.
I worked in Museum until 1 P.M.
Went in town after dinner. Saw
Arthur & John Abbot at office.
Bought another pair White fantails
[margin]Home at 5 P.M. E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read Trollope to me after dinner[/margin]

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Nov. 19, 1915 [November 19, 1915] Wea [Weather]
Bal. Oriole [Baltimore Oriole] reappears in Garden. Stormy
Heavy easterly storm, with violent wind
and floods of rain, beginning about
9 A.M. & over by 7 P.M. when the
clouds parted & the moon shone out.
Morning chilly, evening almost sultry.
  In Garden: two Blue Jays seen and
a Chickadee heard. Baltimore Oriole [female] juv. [juvenile]
in tupelo by pond at 9 A.M. staying there about 2 min [minutes]
  Spent entire day in Museum
writing & filing letters etc.
  Billcliffe & another carpenter worked
on pigeon house extension most
of forenoon, despite the rain.
  With an agent of Tel. & Tel. Co.
I agreed to have a telephone installed
in Museum about December 1
and signed a contract for its use
for one year. It is to be wholly
independent of the one in house.
  E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] went to her Bee at 5.30
& I passed a solitary evening in
hall, reading war news & playing 
Victrola.