Cambridge - Boston
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Dec. 24, 1915 [December 24, 1915] Wea [Weather]
Fine
  Clear, calm, mild- although frosty
in early morning. A late autumnal
sort of day.
  In Garden: a Chickadee, Golden-
crested Kinglet, Fox Sparrow, 2 Peabody
birds (one showing an almost clear
white throat, the other very dull colored),
about a dozen House Sparrows, a Jay
(heard screaming).
  Spend forenoon and part of 
afternoon in Museum writing letters etc
C. [Caroline Brewster] & E.R.S [Elizabeth R. Simmons] motored into Boston at 11.
Just before sunset I joined them at
the Abbotsford, where we are to 
spend Christmas with Miss Holman
& Miss Harkness, who had already
arrived from Lancaster to be our guests.
C. went off with them in a motor car
at 7 P.M. to see illuminations etc. on
Beacon Hill, not returning until 10.
Lizzy and I passed the evening together, she
reading aloud to me from Trollope's
"The Duke's Children".

Boston - Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Dec. 25, 1915 [December 25, 1915] Wea [Weather]
40 [degrees] Christmas at "The Abbotsford" Fair
  Forenoon sunny but very hazy; afternoon
cloudy. Windless & mild all day. Raining
soon after dark.
  We met down stairs at 8.30 for breakfast.
Soon after it I walked across Public Garden
& Common to St. Pauls church where I
left her with Lizzy Fuller and went out
to Cambridge. There I spent remainder of forenoon
in Museum returning to Abbotsford
at 12.30. As our train crossed W. Boston
Bridge [West Boston Bridge] I saw in space between it and
Craigie Bridge certainly more than
1000 Gulls, & perhaps twice or thrice as many,
packed closely together on thin ice bordering
open water & covering half an acre or more of it.
  After luncheon we played the Victrola
in our parlor for upwards of an hour,
Miss Holman & Miss Harkness seeming to 
enjoy the music.
  We all dined together in the little
private dining room at 7 P.M.
  The evening was passed up stairs in
our guests' apartment where also we had
afternoon tea at 5 P.M.