Cambridge - Boston
Ther [Thermometer] FRI. NOV.14, 1913 [Friday, November 14, 1913] Wea
Dull.
Cloudy with fine drizzling rain
at intervals & little or no wind.
A Hermit Thrush, Field Sparrow & 
2 Peabody Birds in Garden.
Spent forenoon in house & Museum
making preparation for trip to
Bethel to-morrow. Started for
Boston about noon. Spent 3 hours
in our office consulting with Arthur
concerning Estate interests & various
matters at Wolfeboro, dictating letters
etc. Lunched at "Bunch O' Grapes".
Visited Wilkinson's to purchase padlocks
& matching [?]. Home by 5 P.M.
C. [Caroline] & E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read to me in hall
after dinner. Cambridge lawns still
as green as in early autumn.
Ladies' delights & chrysanthemums only
flowers blooming now in Garden.
Cambridge - Bethel.
Ther [Thermometer] SAT. NOV.15, 1913 [Saturday, November 15, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Brilliantly clear with light W. [west] wind.
Early morning frosty.
  To Bethel by 8.55 train from Boston.
Left our home at 8.15, in a nervous flurry,
being delayed at last moment by various
things that had to be done. Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert]
motored me over to Porter's. Ride
to Portland uncommonly diverting because
of extreme beauty of scenery as seen in
the clear, still November sunshine with
trunks & stems of trees & shrubs softly revealed
& much color still persisting in marshes
& thickets. Saw an adult Red-shouldered
Hawk perched in leafless swamp maple, 
a Northern Shrike hovering low over rank
meadow grass, a flock of 25+ Old [?] 
rising from the shoal water (Old Orchard).
Reached Bethel at 4.30 & was given room
in brown cottage. Spent evening in [lounge?]
talking with Doctor & family.

