Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Nov. 30, 1918 [November 30, 1918] Wea [Weather]
Fair
  Mostly sunny but partly cloudy.
Just seasonally cool; almost wholly windless
  Garden birds. A Chickadee in willow by
Museum gate; 4 vociferous Crows in Jungle.
  Leaving the house about noon I
walked up Brattle Street to Mount Auburn
and in the big greenhouse opposite the
entrance gate of the Cemetery spent half an
hour or so looking for flowering plants. of
which they seemed to have comparatively
few & these high-priced. After purchasing
a small Begonia & a so-called Bird's Nest
Fern (of recent appearance in flower stores
but now apparently very popular there)
I returned in time (or rather a little late)
for luncheon with E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons]. After it she
went to Ware Hall to read to C. [Caroline Brewster] & I
into Museum to write letters. Dick Dana [Richard Henry Dana Jr.]
came there as twilight was gathering & we
had half an hour or more of friendly chat.
He seems quite well now & in excellent spirits
but is "troubled" about his radical son, Harry.
- who delivered an intemperate socialistic address
in Faneuil Hall last Tuesday evening.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Dec. 1, 1918 [December 1, 1918] Wea [Weather]
20 [degrees], 24 [degrees] Fine
  Clear & cold with strong, harsh N.W. [northwest]
wind.
  Garden birds. None seen but Crows,
House Sparrows & at least one Chickadee
heard.
  Letter writing in Museum occupied
most of the day. Miss Allyn dined
with us as usual. In late P.M.
I callled at the Almys where Mrs. &
Mary received me most cordially.
We talked for upwards of an hour &
then I came home without having 
seen Charles Almy who was away
on Exemption Board duties.
  Brattle Street is now thronged of a
Sunday afternoon with swift-speeding
motor cars and at all hours during
most week days with these & heavy
motor trucks, some of which jar
our house perceptibly.