Cambridge.
Ther. [Thermometer] Fri. [Friday] Jan. 8, 1909 [January 8, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
8 [degrees]
-17 [degrees]
Cloudy with a few snow flakes
falling at intervals. Bitter cold.
  Spent day in Museum
working on Golden-eye article.
Peale painting some of the 
cans. No callers. C. [Caroline Brewster] & E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons]
at lunch & dinner. We read
Cromer's Egypt in the evening.
  Just after coming in for
lunch I looked out of our
back windows & saw a Shrike
flitting through the lilacs, a
very brown bird. Earlier in
forenoon heard a Flicker calling.
in the Jungle.

Cambridge.
Ther. [Thermometer] Sat. [Saturday] Jan. 9, 1909 [January 9, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
Forenoon cold & chilly; afternoon
warmer. Cloudy; no wind.
  Spent day in Museum
working on Golden-eye
article. No one called.
  Miss Allyn & Miss Emmy Howard
took lunch with C. [Caroline Brewster], E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons]
& me. Mrs. Cobb & Lizzy Fuller 
called about eight o'clock
& I escorted them home an 
hour later.
  Only one bird noted to-day, 
a Flicker that I heard
calling about noon in the
Jungle. There may have 
been Crows, too, in the early
morning for i usually hear
them then, if awake, & 
forget it afterwards.