Wea.[Weather] Tues.[Tuesday] Dec.[December] 9, 1902  Ther.[Thermometer]
Clear & intensely cold with                                                  -10 [degrees] at
high N.W.[North West] wind.                                               daybreak.

  At 7.30 C.[Caroline] & I drove to the polls & voted.
We then took 8.13 train for Boston & 9 A.M.
train for Portland where we arrived at 1.50
(2 hours late). Went to Lafayette Hotel where
we met & consulted with Dr. Gehring.
Started for Boston at 6.20 P.M. getting in
at 10.13 & taking 10.20 train for Cambridge. 
All trains late. Engines could not make steam.
Salt water [?] everywhere with clouds of
vapor. Ther[Thermometer] -20 [degrees] at Bethel this morning.

Wea.[Weather]  Wednesday December 10, 1902  Ther.[Thermometer]
Cloudy & chilly with snow squalls                           20 [degrees]
                                                                                36[degrees]
  Spent most of day in Museum
writing. Abbott Thayer called about noon
to help us put together the pieces of the
Pileated Woodpeckers' nest I saw at [Monadnock?]
last June. He & Gerald cut down the tree
& the nest part broke striking a wall.
At 4 P.M. attended meeting Audubon
Society at Mrs.Cabot's. Present Hoffman,
F.H.Allen, Mrs.Elliott, Miss Hall, Miss
Richards.

Wea.[Weather]  Thur.[Thursday] Dec.[December] 11, 1902  Ther.[Thermometer]
Cloudy & chilly. Snow began                                                  24 [degrees]
falling at evening continuing well into
the night, adding about 4 inches to the
depth of the body already on the ground.
  Spent A.M. in Museum finishing
the copying of bird notes from Lamb's
journal. Went to Boston in P.M. &
had a number of teeth filled. Also
did some Christmas shopping.
A Robin & a Blue Jay visited the Garden
The former flew from the Parkmann's 
apple which is crowded with ripe fruit.

Wea.[Weather]  Friday December 12, 1902  Ther.[Thermometer]
Another gray, cheerless day.                          18 [degrees]
                                                                        24[degrees]

  Worked from morning to night on
an obituary notice of J.C.Merrill
for January Auk, making fair progress.
  Two Robins appeared in the Garden
about noon. The Gray Squirrels
are keeping close hid. I do not
see one in three days, on the
average.
  The coal famine becomes more acute.
Few houses in this neighborhood are fully
heated now. It is almost impossible to
get coal, even soft coal.