Cambridge - Boston
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, April 1, 1916 Wea [Weather] Fine
60 [degrees] First Bees.
Clear, calm, very warm. City
lawns for most part free from
snow and ice, the grass showing
green in sheltered spots. Our
crocuses and snow-drops about at
their best. Squills only beginning to
show here & there. Bees out in
plenty about these flowers today.
  In Garden: 2 [male] Robins running on
lawn with occasional jealous bickering;
Song Sparrow singing freely; 3 Fox 
Sparrows, one of them in faint song;
2 Jays; 5 Crows; [female] Downy [Downy Woodpecker]; 3
Bronzed Grackles, Peabody bird singing
sotto voce; Purple Finch ditto. Robin
in full joyous song in early morn
& again just after sunset.
  Wrote letters in forenoon. To Boston at
11.30. Called at Columbia [?] to return
records; at Dr. Blake's office to have my 
ears looked after. Lunched at Copley-
Plaza. Called on Alice Stone in [?].
She showed me all Will's paintings - a
goodly sight which I enjoyed greatly.
After that called at 19 Arlington St. to see bird paintings by __. Did not like them at all.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, April 2, 1916 Wea [Weather] Fine.
Clear, calm, slightly cooler.
  In Garden: 2 Robins; Bluebird unseen,
warbling on wing in direction of the
Horsfords' house; Purple Finch, [male] singing
sotto voce; Peabody bird, one in dull
plumage; Downy [Downy Woodpecker], [female]; 2 Jays; 3 Crows;
9 Bronzed Grackles on wing.
  Spent most of forenoon in
Museum writing letters. Escorted
C.[Caroline Brewster] to St. John's at noon, leaving
her there for Communion Service.
Returning met Will Hall & stopped
for talk with him. He still skates.
He was leading in leash a very
handsome Welsh terrier.
  Walter & Margie Deane dined
with us. Harry & May Cunningham
arrived to call before they left.
After all had departed I went down
to see Miss Allyn who was not well,
taking several records to play to her.
Played various others to C. this
evening.