Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, June 23, 1918 Wea [Weather]
Dull.
Mostly cloudy with fresh westerly
wind & occasional light showers. Still
very cool. Wood fires blazing in all
our living rooms.
  Garden birds. Robins, Red-eye, [in full song], Flicker [in weak song],
Blue Jay & Goldfinch heard, also Kingbird.
On lawn front of house were assembled
at one time in forenoon 4 ad. [adult] & 6 young
Robins 1 ad [adult] & 2 young Chippies [Chipping Sparrow], several
House Sparrows. The Chippies probably 
nested in one of the dense spruces at
back of lawn for I heard the male bird
singing there repeatedly in May.
Percy has seen the brood of young Blue Jays
in the lilacs since they left the nest but
only the old ones have been seen by me.
  Spent most of day in Museum
writing letters by a bright birch fire.
Miss Allyn & Miss Hoppin at dinner
with C. [Caroline Brewster], E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] & me. Mary Almy
called after supper to get us to take
war saving stamps. E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] took one & I
twenty.

Cambridge - Boston - Concord.
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, June 24, 1918 Wea [Weather]
Fine
Brilliant sunshine every now & then
obscured by cloud masses drifting across
the sky before a light westerly wind.
Just comfortably warm.
  To Boston at 10.30. At our office most
of time until 1.30. Signed quarterly
Estate cheques & visited Safety Vault to
cut coupons for Liberty Bonds & to deposit
Saving stamps (twenty of them) which our
postman, Coogan, brought me this morning.
After lunching at Thompson's went
to Faneuil Hall Square & bought an
"Iron Age" wheel cultivator for Farm.
Lots of people buying tomato plants, there.
  Took 2.30 train to Concord where Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert]
met me. After reaching Farm strolled
about for an hour. After supper
walked to Ritchie place. Birds
singing freely included Robins, Veery,
Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo], Redstarts, Indigo birds (2) Cat birds,
Towhee, Chestnut side Warbler [Chestnut-sided Warbler].
Strawberries passing. Many raspberries
ripe. Currants ripening.