Concord - Cambridge - Boston
Ther [Thermometer] THURS. AUG. 28, 1913 [Thursday, August 28, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Executive Com. B.F.A meet. [Executive Committee Brewster Free Academy meeting]. Fine
Clear & cool with light E. [east] wind.
  With the Melvins & Will Baker
I left the Colonial at 8 A.M. &
motored first to the hospital where
I found Gilbert free from pain
but very weak. Thence we went
to Cambridge where I spent 1½
hours at the house & then went
to Boston to attend meeting (11 -
12.30) of Executive Comm B.F.A. [Executive Committee Brewster Free Academy].
with Arthur & Judge Bell who went
over school affairs with us. He [thought?]
we may raise our debt to $50,000
(but no more) & fully approves to Trustees
of Estate compensations as now arranged.
Lunched with Arthur at Youngs, made
a few purchases & at 3 P.M.
started back for Concord with Melvins.
Had a delightful ride thither.
Spent evening on piazza of Colonial.
Concord.
Ther [Thermometer] FRI. AUG.  29, 1913 [Friday, August 29, 1913] Wea. [Weather]
Stormy.
Cloudy with a succession of rather
heavy thunder showers in forenoon
and one or two others during the
following night.
  Spent forenoon on piazza of Colonial
talking with Jim Melvin & Prof.
Norton, asparagus expert. Heard
Yellow-thr. Vireo [Yellow-throated Vireo] & Bal. Oriole [Baltimore Oriole] singing
near house yesterday morning & this.
In afternoon Jim & I superintended 
the transplanting of 5 hemlocks
& thrice as many Mt. laurels [Mountain laurels]
from near Melvin Memorial to
elsewhere in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
A Wood Pewee singing & a Rose br Grosbeak [Rose-breasted
Grosbeak] clicking near us. Jays
calling on every hand. Sat on
piazza through evening talking 
with the Melvins & Mr. Norton.