  Wea. [Weather] Fri. [Friday] Jan. 31, 1902 [January 31, 1902] Ther. [Thermometer]
12 [degrees]
  Cloudy & [and] cold.
  Spent the entire day in the
museum working on the Lower Cala [Lower California]
paper. I am evidently in for a
severe cold. We expected John Thayer
& [and] his wife to spend the night but they
telegraphed their boy was ill & [and] they could
not come. Lizzy, Miss Howard, Miss Windsor,
Miss Bishop, Mr. Leverett, Purdie & [and] Walter
dined with us & [and] afterwards went to the
Dramatic Club rehearsal of the Rival's. We 
had a wild turkey for dinner.

  Wea. [Weather] Sat. [Saturday] Feb. 1 [February 1, 1902] Ther. [Thermometer]
14 [degrees]
38 [degrees]
  Cloudy with sleety rain
beginning about dark & [and] changing to
snow later.
  I was to have gone to the farm this
afternoon to spend Sunday with
Abbott Thayer but a heavy cold & [and] a
sore throat laid me low. I managed to work through the day, however, & [and]
got on well with the introduction to
Lower Cala. Birds [Lower California Birds]. Mrs. John Elliot
called in A.M. to borrow some Warblers
for a third Audubon Calendar.

  Wea. [Weather] Sun. [Sunday] Feb. 2, 1902 [February 2, 1902] Ther. [Thermometer]
40 [degrees]
  Cloudy with steady rain which
removed most of the snow that fell last night.
A Crow cawing in the lindens.
  My cold much better but C's [Caroline's] rheumatism
worse. We spent the afternoon in her
room reading Scudder's "Lowell" aloud.
I wrote letters in the forenoon. No one
came to the house except Lizzy who
dropped in at 5 o'clock (her usual hour).
The ground is still thinly encrusted with
snow & [and] ice but the streets are bare.
  
  Wea. [Weather] Monday 3 [February 3, 1902] Ther. [Thermometer]
28 [degrees]
31 [degrees]
  Clear