Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Oct. 29, 1917 [October 29, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Rough-leg Hawk Fair.
Forenoon more or less sunny, afternoon
dark cloudy with now & then a brief
storm. Mild but chilly with fresh
southerly wind. Hard frost last night.
  Our dooryard birds reduced to 2 Robins,
one White-throat [White-throated Sparrow], a Song Sparrow &
3 or 4 Juncos. A handsome old cock
Pheasant stalked across open field in
front of house at luncheon time. During
a morning walk thro [through] woodland I met a
small flock of Chickadees with Gold crests
near Pulpit Rock & flushed 2 Partridges there.
Near Barrett Spring heard a Winter Wren
ticking in a brush pile & a Creeper among
some tall pines. At 11 A.M. a Rough leg
Hawk [Rough-legged Hawk] passed over Ritchie Place at a
great height (200+ yds [yards]) soaring in
narrow circles until lost to sight to
westward. It looked as big as an Eagle
but showed a relatively large tail as long
apparently as a Marsh Hawk's. When it 
came overhead I saw that it was a large
[female] in melanistic plumage showing white [?]
[?] [?] & transverse white tail base.
Its flight admirably easy & impressive.
  Spent most of day out of doors directing
work of men digging, chopping, etc.

Concord, Cambridge, Boston.
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Oct. 30, 1917 [October 30, 1917] Wea [Weather]
72 [degrees] max. [maximum] Stormy
Morning dark cloudy with strong
southerly wind which increased to a
gale 84 miles per hour, Blue Hill Obs. [ Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory] record. of uncommon fury, as the forenoon
wore on, and lasted well into the night
wrecking many an aged tree or ramshackle
building & accompanied after 11 A.M.
by incessant rainfall, for the most part
heavy & at times a veritable deluge.
  Altogether a very dreary day, also
uncomfortably warm & humid out of
doors & doubly so in steam heated building.
  Took 8.06 train from Concord to
Cambridge, sitting with Geo Keyes, as usual.
Spent most of forenoon in Museum, where
first E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] & next Miss Henders, joined me.
They both advised against my seeing C. [Caroline Brewster], who
was confined to her room after a wretched
night, and Dr. Stevens had also virtually
forbidden it. To men working on small
house furnace which proves in bad need of
extensive repairs. Called on Mrs. Bruce
who desires renovations to her house which
for the most part I had to decline.
  To Boston by noon getting rather wet on
way down to cars. Lunched at Thompson's Spa.
Galloupe & I visited Safety Vault & took out
Fisk mortgage to hand John Abbott.
  Back to Concord by 2.30 ex. [express] train.
Abundant dead ripe grapes (including Isabella 
& Catawbas) untouched by frost in Garden at Camb. [Cambridge]