Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Sept. 7, 1917 [September 7, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Perfect.
Brilliantly clear & somewhat more than
seasonably cool with fresh N.W. [northwest] wind.
One Cicada shrilling.
  Still no trace of any small birds
obviously coming from further north.
The only Warblers of any kind that I
could find were 2 Black-thr. Greens [Black-throated Green Warbler] &
an Oven bird. The only other small
birds encountered during several woodland
walks were a Phoebee [Phoebe] & a Chickadee.
Our dooryard was however enlivened
by the presence of rather many birds
evidently attracted thither partly by the
bath, also by abundant elder berries now
nearly or quite ripe. The bathing birds
included 4 Chippies [Chipping Sparrow], a Cat bird, a Goldfinch
& a [male] juv [juvenile] Maryland Yellow-throat; the berry
eaters 5 Robins, a Brown Thrasher, a Catbird
& a Cedar bird.
  Timmy started 3 young Partridges near
Pulpit Rock . All three "treed." I forgot to
mention a Tanager seen there in a pine.
Except for some yellow on belly & a little
greenish on back his body plumage was
uniformly scarlet & head & neck wholly so.
  Spent most of day in Pulpit Rock woods
where the men were working as before.

Concord, Cambridge, Boston, Manchester
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Sept. 8, 1917 [September 8, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Mixed.
Raining heavily at daybreak, moderately up to
9 A.M. Afternoon sunny but hazy. Cool.
  Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] & I attempted to leave Farm at 9 A.M.
but Ford car balked so persistently that we
had to summon Macone Bros. by telephone.
They soon got us started but not until
10.30 so we did not reach Cambridge much
before noon. Lunched with C. [Caroline Brewster] in her Peace
Room. She seemed in good spirits but was
very depressed yesterday, Charlotte says.
  Went in town about 2 P.M. & spent
about an hour at our office where I drew
a cheque for Mass. Inc. Tax [Massachusetts Income Tax] bill & dictated a
letter to Judge Abbott. Took 4.27 train
for Manchester where Dick Dana [Richard Henry Dana Jr.] met me
with his Cadillac & we were soon at his
house. Strolled about neighboring woods
until sundown & spent evening in parlor
with family & guests - now including
Miss Alice Longfellow and the two sons
Dick & Alston with their wives, Alston's three
children & Edmund's son, a remarkably
handsome & winning boy. We all talked
incessantly until bed time.