Madison - Chicago Dec 30-1926 With Duncan started at 9:05 for Chicago. When we arrived at 1:30 P.M. A bright warm winter day. Had a good talk together. Bought a ticket and berth to Little Rock, Arkansas (29½) and checked my baggage. We then spent 2 hours at the Field Museum, and at 6:50 P.M. came off on the Chicago and Alton for St. Louis and Little Rock; at St. Louis we fro via Missouri Pacific Line. December 31 - 1926 En route to Little Rock. A little snows and ice and much mud down to Benton, Ark'. A cloudy cold day, and the swamps every- where reflect with water. At Poplar Bluff we leave the big Illinois - Beard mountain sheets and turn southward and go on the flat Mississippi bottoms with their hardwoods and small eg. farms there. Our train in St. Louis late. Put up at La. Fayette Hotel, a new one.