Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Nov. 18, 1917 [November 18, 1917] Wea
Perfect.
Clear, calm & for the season warm.
Streets thronged with motor cars,
sidewalks with pedestrians. Grass as
green as in early autumn.
  In Garden: A Brown Creeper, running up
trunk of linden; a Peabody bird; 2 Jays.
  Spent forenoon in Museum writing letters,
Miss Allyn at dinner with E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] & me.
A little Victrola music afterwards.
Still later I walked down to Berkley St.
with Mr. Allyn to see a portrait of her
neice by a Belgian painter now working
here. It impressed me very favorably.
We kept on through Phillip's Place & then
met Sarah Aves with whom I returned.
Leaving her at her house I next called at 
the Fairchilds where I saw both mother &
daughter besides three other ladies. Finally
I dropped in a the Almys' seeing there
Mr. & Mrs. A., Mary, Mrs. Arthur Cabot
Leslie Hopkinson. C. [Caroline Brewster] had a quiet
comfortable day. E.R.S. read to me from
Trollope this evening.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Nov. 19, 1917 [November 19, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear & cool with strong northerly wind.
  In Garden: Hermit Thrush, 2 Gold-crests [male female]
4 White-throated Sparrows together in the
grape arbor, apparently feeding on frozen grapes
which still cling abundantly to the vines &
are by no means unpalatable to my own taste.
I was surprised to see so many of the Sparrows
for hitherto no more than one or two seemed to
be haunting the Garden this month.
  The Hermit must have been a new comer.
As I opened the front door of Museum at
sunset he flew up just outside & for
half a minute fluttered within the wire
enclosure of the old time pigeon pen but
at length got through it somehow & sought
refuge in the Jungle.
The Gold crests were in shrubbery in front of
Museum where I see them almost daily - a
dainty little couple, most confiding & pleasing
to watch at scarce more than arm's length away.
  Spent day in Museum writing letters
& cheques for bills. Also selected a lot of things
which Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] took in to the Jumble Shop for
Sally Fairchild to sell for the [?] Fund
  Nuttall Club this evening. Townsend presided.
Large attendance, Ruth Deane & Oberholser there.
I heard Dr. Field on Bird Reservation & came
in at 9.30, before Mously began his talk.