Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, July 19, 1918 Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear & just agreeably warm with
little or no wind. Big Swallow-tailed
Butterflies, flapping & floating about
the old lindens, over the lawn and
Brattle Street, just as they have always
done at this season ever since I can
remember.
  Garden birds. 2 Robins in full song in
late P.M.; 2 Red-eyes, the [male] singing only
infrequently; a Chippy do [singing only infrequently]; also a Flicker;
Goldfinch calling; Swifts twittering
overhead at sunset when 2 Grackles
passed, flying N.W. [northwest]. I still hear one
or more Kingbirds daily. They must
have bred somewhere near perhaps at
the old Wyman place where I noticed
a pair in early June.
  Spent most of day in Museum, writing
letters. Walked up Brattle St. [Street] to Elmwood
in late P.M. A young German doctor
came in forenoon to test C's [Caroline's] eyes for
possible infection. She & E.R.S. [Elizabeth Simmons] with
me in Garden after supper. Later we
had two chapters of "Orley Farm" in
front hall.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, July 20, 1918 Wea [Weather]
Dr. de Sweinitz consults with C. [Caroline Brewster] & Dr. Cheeney. Fine
Clear, calm & very warm, yet not
oppressively so. A thunder shower
passed close to northward at 4 P.M. but
without giving us a single drop of rain.
Gilbert, who motored to Concord for eggs &
berries, reports that a large oak standing
just behind our old barn there was
struck & shattered by lightning, Thursday P.M.
  Garden birds A Robin in full song at
evening, a Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo] at intervals thro [through] day;
a Chippy [Chipping Sparrow] singing occasionally & briefly;
a Jay screaming & a Kingbird calling
in the Jungle; 2 Swifts circling low
at sunset.
  C. with Margaret motored in town to meet
Dr de Sweinitz in consultation at Dr. Cheeney's.
After the former had made a through
examination of her eyes it was decided that
the left eye shall be operated on by Dr. Cheeney
early next week. This is merely to test the hoped
for success of such an operation & not to save
that eye, now wholly sightless. If all goes well
the right eye will be operated on a month or
so later. This plan was suggested by Dr. de
Steinitz I understood. C. will go to a
hospital in Newbury St. & have her old nurse
Miss Leadbeater.
  I spent most of day in Museum. Walked 
to Elmwood in late P.M.  Bad attack
of bladder trouble of late but now better.