Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer]   SAT. MAR. 29, 1913 [Saturday, March 29, 1913]  Wea [Weather]
Fine
  Clear, calm, mild. Ground hard
frozen in early morning. This does
not seem to have hurt recently
unfolded leaves. Grass intensely green.

  A Robin, Chickadee, Flicker [in full song], female
Downy [Downy Woodpecker], 2 Jays & 14 Crow Blackbirds
in the Garden.

  Spent forenoon in Museum working
at various odd tasks. Overhauled M.S. [manuscript]
of Umbagog book to put in storage
for summer. It will make over 400
printed pp. [400 printed pages] like those of Camb. Birds
[Cambridge Birds].

  At 2 P.M. walked down to Radcliffe
with E.R.S.[Elizabeth R. Simmons] & Walter Deane to see operetta
Egyptian Princess- very pretty & good.
Osborne here when I got back. Seeking
position of Principal at Wolfeboro.
Will & Alice Stone & Mrs. Purdie dined with
us & stayed until 9.30.
Cambridge-Concord.
Ther [Thermometer]   TUES. APRIL 1, 1913 [Tuesday, April 1, 1913]  Wea [Weather]
Fair
Sunny but the sky veild [veiled] in thin
clouds or thick haze. Cool with
raging W. [west] wind.
  In the Garden heard a Crow, a 
Robin, a Flicker [in full song], a Downy [Downy Woodpecker], the
Peabody bird [in weak song], a Blue Jay[in full song] (making
various subdued liquid & gurgling sounds
some rather musical). Saw about
6 Crow Blackbirds.
C. [Caroline] left house at 11.30 to take 
3 P.M. train for Lyme, Conn.
E. started earlier. I walked down to
river with C. Spent most of day
in Museum writing letters & cheques.
Took 5.05 train for Arlington for
Bedford & trolley car thence to W.
Bed. [West Bedford] bridge where Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] met me.
River meadows well flooded &
white-capped waves [?] over them
when we crossed to Ball's Hill
where we are to stay for the present.