Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, July 15, 1914 Wea [Weather]
Fair
Forenoon cloudy; afternoon sunny.
Comfortably cool with light E. wind.
  Comparatively few birds in Garden.
Only a Robin & a Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo] in song.
Two Jays, a few Grackles & perhaps
a dozen Sparrows raiding the depleted 
supply of cherries. No Goldfinches.
Apparently there are none breeding in
the Garden this summer.
  Spent day in Museum. Worked 
on Great Horned Owl story in forenoon
but wrote only a single page of fresh
matter & part of this was compiled.
C. [Caroline Brewster] copied three pages revised by me
yesterday. I wrote a long letter to 
Dick Dana in the afternoon.
Gilbert took the Ford car to Concord
Junction & had shock absorbers put
on it there. He says it runs much 
more smoothly.
  C. & I called on Mary & George Deane
this evening. After returning played the
Victrola & she read "Tembarom" to me.
Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, July 16, 1914 Wea [Weather]
Fair
Forenoon cloudy; afternoon sunny.
Uncomfortably warm & humid. Light S.W. [southwest] winds.
  Robin, Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo] & Goldfinch singing
in the Garden. 2 or 3 Jays & Grackles
& 5 or 6 House Sparrows visiting cherry tree
now almost stripped of fruit. Swift
heard overhead. Sparrow Hawk seen
by Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] at Lowell Park.
  Spent day in Museum working all
forenoon & part of afternoon on Great
Horned Owl story. It makes but
slow progress & I wrote only a page
to-day, being sadly out of practise [practice].
  A man claiming to be an agent of
Stanley Bros came in one of their motor
cars at 3 P.M. & took me around
Fresh Pond in it. It ran very smoothly
I refused to commit myself in any way.
Gilbert motored C. [Caroline Brewster] over to Readville
in A.M. She saw Harry & May.
She & I read aloud & had Victor music
this evening.