Cambridge - Boston
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Mar. 23, 1917 [March 23, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Sunny & mild with light southerly
breeze. Clouds gathering in late P.M.
Most spring like day thus far. Air wholly
without chill. Snow & ice all gone except
from shaded places.
  Garden birds. 3 Robins seen by Percy.
Between 9 & 10 A.M. I noted the following.
A Brown Creeper in sidewalk maples on 
Riedesel Ave.; a Fox Sparrow singing
divinely in lilacs as it rambled about
over bare ground & snow banks; a Jay;
2 Flickers shouting alternately, one near,
other afar off; Starling [?] in
apple tree; 2 Grackles; Crow cawing;
a few House Sparrows.
  Called on Walter at 9 A.M. but he was
away in motor car. Returning wrote to
him a note of sympathy etc. C. [Caroline Brewster] went
in town with our car at 9.45. Walter
used it later. I started for Boston at 
11.45. At our office 12.10-3.45.
except when lunching at Marston's.
Called at 53 Devonshire St. at 4 P.M.
to instruct Mr. Brown about codicil to
C's will. Home at 5, very tired.

Signed order for 50 more shrs. [shares] Manhattan Market

Cambridge - Boston. First crocuses & Snow drops.
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Mar. 24, 1917 [March 24, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Migrant Shrike's third visit. Mixed
A warm rain falling through last night
& this forenoon has melted practically all
remaining snow & ice. The afternoon
sunny & serenely calm & beautiful.
Two white crocuses in bloom front of
house, many snowdrops front of Museum
both flowers appearing thus for first time.
  Garden birds: Migrant Shrike perched in
hawthorn singing ceaselessly 10 -10.30 A.M.
Identified him positively this time.
2 Jays, 2 Grackles, 3 Crows, several
House Sparrows.
  Wrote letters and bird noted 9-1.30 A.M.
Went in town at noon. Spent two
hours at office. Signed quarterly
Estate cheques. Lunched at
Cole & Marshalls', Merchants' Row, a 
resort for marketmen where I had a
delicious tenderloin steak, perhaps the
best for forty years. (We used to get them
in similar places in 1871-72)
  Home by 4 P.M. Margie Deane's funeral
at 3 - Christ's Church. C. [Caroline Brewster] & E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] were there.
I could not go because of my physical infirmity.