Manchester-By-The-Sea (Massachusetts).
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, July 2, 1916 Wea [Weather] Fair
Stranded Hake & Herring.
  Sunny but hazy with clouds gathering in
mid P.M. and thunder showers later,
followed by ever rising east wind and incessant
roar of surf beating on ledge & beach. Cool.
  Dick Dana & his neice [niece] motored off to
church at 10.20. I sat awhile on back
piazza writing & enjoying the fine sea view.
Harry Dana joined me there about 11.30 &
later came Dick's sister Rosamund to dine
and his daughter Frances, with her small son,
still later to sup & spend the night.
  In afternoon Dick & I had a delightful walk
first down through his woods, where there seems
to be almost no bird life at present; next through
the Lanes' beautiful gardens & shrubbery, where
5 or 6 Song Sparrows & 3 or 4 D. virens [Dendroica virens] were
singing; finally along the exquisitely smooth &
hard beach of "singing sands" thickly strewn
at high-water mark for its entire length with
dead Hake of from 2 to 5 or 6 lbs [pounds] weight &
even more plentifully with young Herring 2 or 3 inches
in length. Most of the larger fish had been pecked
open & more or less eaten by Crows & Gulls. They 
had presumably chased the little ones ashore at
high tide last night & persisted with them by stranding.
In a few places the little ones covered square yards
of sand with an unbroken carpet of silvery bodies.
  We spent evening in living room talking
ceaselessly of various things.

Manchester- Boston - Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, July 3, 1916 Wea [Weather]
Dull.
 Cloudy warm & humid with a succession
of thunder showers in P.M., none,
however, of long duration or much violence.
  We breakfasted at 8 at the Danas,
Richard, his daughter Frances & his niece
Rosamund. Harry came down later.
After that we sat in the living room
together talking. At 10.27 Dick, Rosamund
& I started for Manchester in the Ford,
Dick driving it fast & accurately. On 
reaching the station we joined Rosamund's
mother, Rosamund, with whom I
journeyed to Boston - as with Edith Dana
two years ago. From North Station I
went to our office where I saw Galloupe
& learned of Edward Allen's death on
Saturday morning. It leaves Arthur & me
the sole survivors of the Brewster, [?] & Co's
office force of the early seventies.
Lunched in Exchange Building & came
out to Cambridge at 2 P.M. finding C. [Caroline Brewster]
at the house. E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] returned from Bangor
at 9 P.M. C. & I played eight new
records before that & found five of them worthy.