Cambridge - Boston.
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, July 11, 1917 Wea [Weather]
Stormy
Dark cloudy with chill N.E. [northeast] wind and
light rainfall beginning about noon and
lasting well into the following night.
  Motored to Harvard Square at 11.15 with
C. [Caroline Brewster] who kept on into Boston to keep an
appointment with Dr. Cheeney. I called at
Dr. Andrews's office & then went in town
to our office where I saw Galloupe & Darling.
After lunching at Marston's visited Rawson
Fiske & Fottlers to make some small
purchases and Steinert's where I tried
June & July records finally accepting
(& paying for) five all good & two
uncommonly beautiful. When I started
for home at 5 the subway trains were
densely crowded & I let four pass in
succession before getting a seat in the
fifth. Reached our house about 6.
  Played the new records to C. after
supper. She seems to like most of
them as much as I do. After that
E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read aloud from "Emma".

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, July 12, 1917 Wea [Weather]
First Cicada Fair
Partly sunny, largely cloudy. or very hazy.
Warm with light southerly wind.
  Garden birds. 2 Robins singing at sunset
half a dozen or more visiting cherry trees
through day. A Grackle & hordes of House
Sparrows also raiding the cherries.
Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo] singing fitfully & brokenly.
A Jay in Jungle, a Swift overhead.
Young Oriole calling & either the same
or another (which looked like an adult [female])
eating cherries in silence just before that.
  First Cicada shrilling at noon.
  Spent most of forenoon in the garden
with Percy pruning shrubbery & planning
things. After dining on back piazza
C [Caroline Brewster] & I set forth in the Ford car
she to look at rooms for Mrs. Sawyer,
I to visit Museum where I saw Henshaw,
Bangs & Clark (of Washington). Just
before entering watched blue jackets drilling.
While walking home met Harvard
recruits returning fr. [from] Fresh Pond.
E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read Emma this eve.