Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, July 5, 1918 Wea [Weather]
62 [degrees] max. [maximum] My sixty-seventh birth day. Dull
Cloudy with strong, chill east wind
& a little fine rain.
  Garden birds. 2 Robins singing, several
young of assorted sizes in shrubbery & on
lawn; ad. [adult] Chippy [Chipping Sparrow] singing, spotted young
bird seen; 10+ House Sparrows on lawn;
Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo] & Kingbird heard calling &
a Flicker "shouting" (feebly)
  Spent most of day in Museum
writing letters. C. [Caroline Brewster] had arranged to
celebrate my birth day by having
the Emersons & Mrs. Almy at dinner
& George & Mary Deane to greet me
afterwards. This was given up because
I had had a bad night & did not
feel equal to seeing & entertaining any
one today. C. gave me Sanborn's
Thoreau & E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] a pen wiper. The 
Almys sent in a set of small flags
of all the Allied Nations in the war.
Mrs. Scudder sent a pretty picture
card from Chororua

Cambridge - Manchester.
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, July 6, 1918 Wea [Weather]
52 [degrees] min. [minimum] Fair
Partly sunny, mostly cloudy. Cool
with light easterly wind.
  Spent forenoon in Museum writing
letters. Started for Manchester soon after
dinner & took 3.15 train from Boston.
Found Edward Morse in smoking car,
enjoying his cigar, and rode with him as
far as Salem. He is eighty years old yet
vigorous still. Yale gave him his third
honorary degree of Doctor of Science, last
month.
  Dick Dana [Richard Henry Dana Jr.] met me at Manchester with
his Cadillac car. We motored direct to
his house. Walked along beach & in woods,
before supper. Low tide & a clean smooth
beach dotted with delicate pink & purple
strands of sea weed but with no stranded
fish that we could find. A few Gulls well
off shore. Bank of fog there. Woods gloomy
& silent under a clouded sky. Robin &
Chippy [Chipping Sparrow] singing near house, Song Sp. [Song Sparrow] by shore.
  Spent evening by parlor fire. Frances
(Mrs. Durand) keeping house. She came
in late in evening.