Cambridge - Boston.
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Nov. 7, 1916 [November 7, 1916] Wea [Weather] Fine
National Election

Sunny but hazy, windless, heavy with
frost at early morn, chill air all day.
Altogether ideal weather for the
Presidential Election.
  In Garden: 2 Chickadees, Goldcrest [Golden-crowned Kinglet] (heard),
2 Goldfinches (at sunflower seeds, front 
of Museum), 10+ House Sparrows, Downy [Downy Woodpecker]
(heard across Brattle St. [Brattle Street], in Hubbard Park)
  To Lowell St. [Lowell Street], at 10 A.M. Voted straight
Republican ticket throughout. Thence to
Boston where I spent 3 hours (12-3.30)
at our office, lunching with Arthur
at Youngs. The Ninth Mass. Regiment [Ninth Massachusetts Regiment],
returning from Texas, marched past
while we were there. Streets crowded 
with people who cheered only moderately.
  Home by 4.20 P.M.
  Alice & Harry Bartlett called at 8,
staying until 9. After that we tried
some new records from the November list.
Only three or four proved satisfactory.
A very beautiful one by Gluck-Zimbalist.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Nov. 8, 1916 [November 8, 1916] Wea [Weather] Fine
Blue Jay mimics Sparrow Hawk.

Clear, calm, comparatively mild.
Cherry trees still well clothed with
autumn-tinted foliage but the leaves
falling fast. Those of Japanese ivy nearly
all off. Few other trees & shrubs or vines
have any left.
  In Garden: 5 Chickadees [in a flock] & a Goldcrest [Golden-crowned Kinglet]
together in willow by Museum gate, Jay
screaming, 10 or a dozen House Sparrows.
  My right eye increasingly troublesome
since Friday last. Consulted Dr. William
about it at 8 A.M. He found & extracted
a loose eyelash but the discomfort has
not since much abated. While on way to his
office at 8 A.M. heard the rattling call of a
Sparrow hawk repeated many times. It was
presently traced to a Blue Jay among
shrubbery in Nichols place. I have seldom if
ever before heard a Mass. [Massachusetts] Blue Jay mimic
the Sparrow Hawk.
  Spent most of day in Museum. The
eye trouble prevented any work more arduous
than looking over papers & writing a few
short letters. E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read aloud in evening.