Concord - Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Nov. 10, 1918 [November 10, 1918] Wea [Weather] 
Fair
Forenoon cloudy & warm with light
S.W. [southwest] breeze. Afternoon sunny with
fresher & cooler west wind.
  Birds at October Farm (8-9 A.M.) 3 Robins
on wing, 15+ Juncos in millet, several
Chickadees & 2 Brown Creepers in Run,
3 or 4 Jays in orchard, a Crow in Cornfield,
flight call (three-whistle one) of Pine
Grosbeak heard near house.
  Birds in Cambridge Garden (11 A.M. - 4 P.M.)
4 Robins eating hawthorn berries, a
Brown Creeper & 4 Chickadees in
lilacs, Goldfinch & Junco heard.
Peabody-bird & Flicker seen.
  before leaving Farm this morning I
went into woods near Pulpit Rock to
get rock ferns for Larry's & Timmy's graves.
Gilbert & I started for Cambridge at 9.30.
Reached there about 11. Planted ferns with
Percy's help. Then saw Lizzy. Miss Allyn
& Miss Hoppin dined with us at 1.30.

Cambridge - Boston - Concord
Great War really ended to-day.
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Nov. 11, 1918 [November 11, 1918] Wea [Weather] 
Fine
Brilliantly clear & frostily cold
with fresh northerly wind. Last
night coldest of season at Concord. Ground
there hard-frozen this morning. In
Cambridge Garden by Museum salvias
& nasturtiums continue in unmarred bloom.
  Birds in Cambridge Garden. Only some
Chickadees & a Downy [Downy Woodpecker], both merely
heard.
  Awakening at daybreak I heard
whistles blowing & horns tooting far & near
proclaiming news reaching this country an
hour or two earlier that an armistice with
Germany had been signed & the Great War
thereby finally ended. All day long the
din continued with varying intensity, no
doubt throughout our whole country. In Boston
it was fairly deafening when I reached our
office at 10.30 A.M. All streets in that
neighborhood were then ankle deep in torn-up
papers & confetti & densely crowded with motors
of every description crammed with young men 
girls & children, waving flags, cheering,
singing, blowing horns, beating on tin pans &
otherwise making all the noise they could.
  The shops were practically all deserted & closed
their employees having deserted in a body to
enjoy a holiday & celebration of their own
[?]. Our office, however, was open
as usual & all the Estabrook people at their
desks. I saw Arthur & the rest. Miss Walker
- Mrs. Watson since Oct. 10 [October 10, 1918] - has been replaced
by a very young girl stenographer said to be efficient.
  I lunched at Thompson's & took 2.30 train
to Concord where Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] met & motored me
to Farm to spend another week.