Cambridge - Boston
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Dec. 23, 1916 [December 23, 1916] Wea [Weather]
Fine

Clear and cool with violent
N.W. [northwest] wind, dying away at nightfall.

  Garden birds. A Chickadee, a
Peabody bird heard chirping, a Flicker
[male] eating Parkman apples & about 80
House Sparrows.

  Spent most of day in house &
Museum, writing letters & making
various preparations for our
Christmas stay in Boston. C. [Caroline Brewster] &
E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] motored in before noon,
I followed by subway cars as
twilight fell. We have a pleasant
suite of rooms at S.E. [southeast] corner for the
ladies & a back room for me, all
on the 2nd floor. The hotel
seems attractive in every way
& the food uncommonly good.
E.R.S & I dined together at 7.
C. was too tired to come down.
I [?] acquaintance with a Mr. Bailey
in smoking room, very agreeable man.

Boston (Hotel Vendome)
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Dec. 24, 1916 [December 24, 1916] Wea [Weather]
Fair

Sunny for most part & seasonably
cool with moderate northerly wind.

  Spent most of day in the hotel
but called on Frank Manning at
3 P.M. staying about an hour.
Miss Holman & Miss Harkness, coming
from Lancaster, joined us early
in forenoon. C. [Caroline Brewster] has developed a
throat cold & did not venture out
all day but spent most of it in
bed although with us at breakfast
& luncheon in the dining room.
I passed several hours in smoking
room talking with various other
guests. One of these asserts that
Dr. Hugh Cabot said in his hearing last
night that he (Cabot) recently met a
German prisoner in France who was
with him at Harvard & who refused at
first to believe that England was not 
wholly overrun by Germans & in their 
possession!