Glendale
Ther [thermometer] Friday, Aug. 16, 1918 [August 16, 1918] Wea [Weather]
56 [degrees] at 7 A.M. Perfect.
Brilliantly clear & delicious cool
with fresh westerly wind.
  A Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo], Chippy [Chipping Sparrow], Baltimore Oriole,
& Wood Pewee the only birds heard
singing. Not many others seen.
Migrating Warblers passing over in 
great numbers between 9 & 11 P.M.
on August 13 & 14. but none to
be found by day after these nocturnal flights.
  Spent forenoon in chamber, 
reading & writing letters, notes etc.
Mrs. French's weekly reception in
studio grounds 4-7 P.M. Upwards
of twenty five people attended it
among them Mrs. Choate & her
daughter. We all sat around in chairs
on lawn next pergola wherein the
tea, lemonade & cakes were served.
Mrs. Will French appeared to
join the household guests of whom
Mrs. Powell alone is left just now

Glendale
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Aug. 17, 1918 [August 17, 1918] Wea [Weather]
57 [degrees] at 7 A.M. Perfect.
Another day of cloudless skies &
brilliant sunshine tempering a cool
north-westerly wind.
  Little or no bird music from anything
save a Goldfinch and a Wood Pewee.
Saw an adult [male] Hummingbird at
Cardinal flowers & a Least Flycatcher
in alders, by the brookside at the
Smith place. Heard call notes of
Hermit Thrush & Black-thr. Green Warbler [Black-throated Green Warbler]
in the pasture by Outlook.
  Shortly after breakfast Dan [Daniel Chester French] & I
walked down the road to visit the
Smiths. Mr. Smith took us up 
the brook to where his daughter
& a girl friend, both in overalls &
one wearing rubber boots, were at
work in a pond they had dug &
surrounded by brilliant flowers of
various cultivated kinds.
  In late P.M. Dan & I went to the
Pasture Outlook & sat there talking
until supper time. Flushed a brood of 6+ well grown young Partridges