Cambridge - Boston
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Aug. 12, 1917 [August 12, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Perfect
Cloudless, almost windless, warm thro [through] 
mid-day hours but very cool at morn
& eve. Altogether a truly delightful day 
not, however, without a suggestion of 
autumn which, indeed, really begins 
about this time as far as seasonal 
phenomena are concerned.
  Garden birds 2 silent Robins, Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo]
singing fairly well at sunrise, 4 Swifts
at sunset, Oriole & King bird heard
calling, only two or three, H. Sparrows [House Sparrows].
Several Tree Crickets after dark.
  To Boston by subway at 10.30. 
Met C. [Caroline Brewster] at St Pauls. Usual beautiful
music and an excellent sermon by
Mr. Sullivan. C. & I came out 
together by subway to Harvard Square
where Daly met us.
  Wrote letters in P.M with C.
spend half hour after sunset in
the Garden. Very beautiful & serene it
was at that hour. Reading and Victrola
to pass a pleasant evening in hall.

Cambridge - Concord
16 Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Aug. 13, 1917 [August 13, 1917] Wea [Weather] 
Perfect.
Brilliantly clear, almost windless, cool at 
morn & eve [evening], rather warm thro [through] day.
  Cambridge Garden birds: nearly full song of 
Oriole, evidently old [male], heard twice, 7 A.M.
Challenge notes of Wood Thrush repeated 
several times in Jungle 7 P.M. Latter bird must
be self same with one July 28 & August 4 & no
doubt has been lingering hereabouts all the while.
  Concord Farm birds. Ad. [adult female] Chestnut-side
Warbler [Chestnut-sided Warbler] in ragged nuptial plumage feeding
chattering young in full aut. pl. [autumnal plumage] with well-grown
wings & tail; Chippy [Chipping Sparrow] feeding young; Maryland
Yellow thrt [Maryland Yellow-throat] & Cat bird in bath; click note of
Grosbeak hd. [heard] near house; 12 [in a flock] Swifts on wing
over it; Barn [Barn Swallow] & Bank Swallows heard.
Indigo bird & Grass Finch singing on Punk.
Hill [Punkatasset Hill]. Song Sparrows in full song in several
places along road to village.
  To Concord via 8.17 train from
Waverley. Mc.Manus sent me to Farm
in swift, east motor car & took me
back for 5.05 return train. Flowers &
vegetables flourishing at Farm, woods
hit by bugs & drought. Many
young hemlocks dead.
  Lotty Kettell arrived to day from N.J. [New Jersey].