Cambridge - Boston
Ther. [Thermometer] SAT. [Saturday] JAN. 16, 1909 [January 16, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
6 [degrees] 16 [degrees]
Forenoon sunny; afternoon
cloudy. Bitter cold.
Spent most of day in 
Museum working on the article
about Otters in Mass. which I
have taken up again. Billcliffe
came to put up a curtain
for lantern slides. No callers.
At 4 P.M. I drove in town
with C. [Caroline Brewster] to May Cunningham's
reception. We stayed about 
half an hour. I talked with
Mrs. Binney & Miss. Cunningham.
Got back at 5.30. Lizzy Fuller
called at 8.30. E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read
aloud from "An Irish R.M."
Heard a Fiicker in the Garden.
The ground almost everywhere
encased in ice.
Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer] SUN. [Sunday] JAN. 17, 1909 [January 17, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
Heavy snow storm beginning
last night, changing to sleet in
afternoon. Ground covered to depth
of 6 or 8 inches with icy snow, by nightfall.
Spent morning in Museum writing
letters. My dear old friend
Charley Cater came about noon 
to the museum where we smoked
our pipes and talked over old times.
by the log fire until 1.30 when
we went into the house to dine
tete-a-tete on a canvas-back
Duck provided by C. [Caroline Brewster] who with E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons]
had gone to Concord to Ellen Emerson's
funeral. Charlie left me at 2.30 to take
train for New York. He is as attractive
as ever & still handsome but with snow
white hair & mustache.
A flicker seen in the Garden.