Bethel - Boston - Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, June 26, 1916 Wea [Weather]
  Clear & warm with light southerly breeze.
  Left Bethel at 8.50 A.M. and
reached Boston at 3.35 P.M.
Mrs. MacVickar on the train with me
as far as Portland. We sat together
part of way & talked & looked out of
window at fields filled with golden
Buttercups and white Daisies in uncommon
profusion & fullest bloom. Orange Hawkweed
all the way to Portland and in some
fields ominously widespread.
  On reaching Boston went straight to our
office but found it closed. Thence to Cambridge
where I spent remainder of afternoon
writing & rambling about garden. C. [Caroline Brewster] & E.[Elizabeth R. Simmons?] had
gone off motoring with Gilbert but they
returned at 6.30. We had supper on back
piazza. Harry Bartlett came shortly after
it and spent evening.
  In Garden 2 Robins & a Red-eye Vireo singing;
one of the Robins with rare sweetness & fervor.
A Jay uttering medley of liquid notes at sunset
2 Swifts careering about overhead.

Cambridge -Boston - Concord.
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, June 27, 1916 Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear & oppressively warm & humid with
light southerly wind.
  In Garden 2 Robins & a Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo] singing,
8 Crow Blackbirds on lawn, 2 Jays in Jungle. 
Concord Farm. Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo], House Wren &
Chestnut side Warbler [Chestnut-sided Warbler] singing near house,
Crested & Least Flycatchers calling, a Veery (in
Berry Pasture) & 3 or 4 Robins singing at eve[evening].
Cat-birds [Catbirds] singing a little. Their nest in
shrubbery behind house held young to-day.
Several Flickers shouting persistently but briefly.
I took them to be young birds.
  To Boston at 10.30 A.M. Bought a pair
of tramping shoes at McNeil & Thayers. Thence
to our office where I saw Galloupe & Darling
& signed quarterly cheques. Dined at Marston's. 
Thence to Fottler's & Avery Plough Co. for a few tools.
  Took 2.40 train to Concord where Gilbert met
& motored me to Farm. Strolled about there
until sunset. Abundance of firm, large, ripe
strawberries. Few Mosquitos [mosquitoes]. Tree Toads in
trees close to house keeping up incessant calling
through evening.