Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, July 31, 1914 Wea [Weather]
Dan French [Daniel Chester French] departs Fine
Clear & very cool with little or no wind.
  A Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo], a Flicker & 3 or 4 Robins
in the Garden, a Swift flying over it.
Noted nothing else. The Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo] was
the only bird that sang. He kept it
up for half an hour in the early morning
& was in fairly good voice. The 
Goldfinches seem to have deserted us &
I am now quite sure they have not
bred near here this year.
  Dan & I went through the Garden just
before breakfast which we had on the
back piazza. Soon after it I went
with him to where the foundations for
the Memorial have recently b [been] put in
Longfellow Park. We parted there
he taking the car for Boston to return
to Glendale this afternoon. I worked
all day on Gr. H. Owl [Great Horned Owl] story compiling
2 pp. from the Umbagog note books.
Mrs. Cobb supped with me & her sister
called later when we had Victrola music.
C. [Caroline Brewster] was up stairs with a head ache.
She sent "Sun" back to Wellesley to day
[margin]because he had been in three dog fights
this week.[/margin]
Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Aug. 1, 1914 [August 1, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear & cool with almost no wind.
  Three or four Robins flitting through the
Jungle, a Jay screaming there, a Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo]
singing well in the lindens at early morn,
Crows cawing afar off, a silent Least
Flycatcher dressing its plumage while
perching in the sun on a dead twig
within two yards of my study window
and a few scattering House Sparrows:
these make up the full list of birds
seen & heard about our place to-day.
The flower show now at its best
or nearly so with Zinnias, bergamot,
Shirley poppies etc. in full bloom.
  Spent day in Museum working on
Gr. H. Owl [Great Horned Owl] story & adding two pages
besides revising most of those already
written. It is nearing completion at last.
Never before, perhaps, have I spent so
much time on anything to so little purpose.
Lizzy Fuller & Mrs. Cobb at dinner, the
latter at supper. Mary Deane spent most
of evening. We had lots of Victrola music
Mrs. Cobb having brought us many new records.
[margin]Tense excitement over war news from Europe. Newspapers overflowing
with it.[/margin]