Cambridge.
Ther. [Thermometer] Wed. [Wednesday] Jan. 6, 1909 [January 6, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
60 [degrees]
  Cloudless with light westerly 
winds. Forenoon warm & springlike.
All snow & ice gone, lawns distinctly
green, streets deep in mud.
  Afternoon cooler with high N.W. [Northwest] wind
Crows cawing loudly in lindens
in early morning. Chickadees 
heard in Garden in forenoon, 
one of them giving the phoebe
call many times.
  Spent day in Museum
struggling with Barrow's Golden
eye article. No callers.
Pierce & one man cutting off
browntail nests. Lunched
alone. C. [Caroline Brewster] & E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read Cromer's
Egypt aloud in evening. C.
had letter from Fond du Lac
Aunt Ruth failing fast.

Cambridge.
Ther. [Thermometer] Thurs. [Thursday] Jan. 7, 1909 [January 7, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
20 [degrees]
  Cloudy & cold the ground
hard frozen, the air intensely
chilly. Westerly winds.
  Spent day in Museum
working on Golden-eye article
& making poor progress as usual. 
No callers through day. Will &
Alice Stone came to dinner at
seven and spent a long evening.
We sat by the open fire in 
the hall and talked. The Revd. 
Mr Vaughan who used to bring
us apples from the Cape & whom I
have not seen for years called at
8. I gave him $5.00 for which he 
is to send us cranberries. I suspect
he is an utter fraud. 
  Heard a Flicker in Garden.