1892
March 26
Concord, Massachusetts.
Mass.
Concord. - Cloudless and very warm at noon with practically 
no wind until 4P.M. when a brisk & chilly S. E. breeze started.
Ther. 32[degrees] at sunrise, 51[degrees] at noon, 55[degrees] at 3 P.M.
  By far the warmest and pleasantest day of the Spring
thus far and, for those of us who have braved this
long, hard winter in the country, a red letter day, as
genial as March ever [delete]March ever[/delete] gives us in this latitude
and filled with the promise of still better things in 
the near future. The almost total absence of wind and 
the bright sunshine reflected from the snow which still
covers much of the ground or from the calm surface 
of the river made the heat at times really oppressive.
Of course the snow and ice wasted very rapidly 
under these conditions. The brook ran bank-full and 
the river was covered with cakes and small fields of
floating ice mingled with pieces of boards, old
railroad sleepers, logs, rafts of dead bushes, and every
other conceivable flotsam & jetsam all whirling down 
towards the sea in the strong currant. Although the 
water is low for the season the Great Meadows are, of
course, flooded. [delete]Still[/delete]. The are still for the most part
covered with ice but this is interspersed with ponds
of open water and near the river banks there are
deep bays which extend back for varying distances 
into the gray, water-soaked ice. The fields, where 
the ground is bare, are still [?] and brown with
no trace of green on the sunniest slopes. There is
still  much frost in the ground and the roads
and ploughed lands are morasses of soft, sticky 
mud. The pines, as I noted yesterday, have already
assumed their bright, lively spring coloring.
[margin]Progress of the
season[/margin]