Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer] Mon. [Monday] Jan. 16, 1911 [January 16, 1911] Wea. [Weather]
4 [degrees], 8 [degrees] Fine
Clear & cold with fresh W. [west] wind.
  Spent day in Museum
having my luncheon sent out
from the house. Wrote a
number of letters & finished &
copied M.S. [manuscript] for the Brock
circular and the correction of
my slip in the Bittern article.
C. [Caroline Brewster] had Mrs. Cobb & Miss Williams
to luncheon. I did not join them
because of a troublesome cough.
Revd. Walker [Reverend Robert Walker], chaplain of the
Reformatory at Concord called at
3.30 to talk about Geo. Webb
whom he is to see soon. He stayed
about an hour. The Nuttall Club
meeting this evening. 12 present.
Glover Allen spoke on antiphonal
singing.
  No birds to-day.

Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer] Tues. [Tuesday] Jan. 17, 1911 [January 17, 1911] Wea. [Weather]
8 [degrees], 16 [degrees] Fine
Clear & cold with light W. [west] wind.
  Spent day in Museum
working on Pine Point M.S. [manuscript],
revising what has been written
& adding a very little fresh
matter to it. C. [Caroline Brewster] copied for
me all the forenoon.
  Minna Kettell was at
luncheon with us.
  At 5.30 P.M. Harry Spelman
called to tell me that the Motley
deal is off. He saw Tom & Ned in
their office to-day. They said
"family complications" had arisen
which make the purchase practically
out of the question but they
would consummate it as a moral
obligation if I was disposed to
so regard it. Of course I have
written them that it is all right.
  Heard a Blue Jay & a Chickadee &
a Flicker in the Garden.