Cambridge.
Ther. [Thermometer] Fri. [Friday] Feb. 17, 1911 [February 17, 1911] Wea. [Weather]
Stormy.
A dreary day with lowering skies
and rain, sleet or snow falling
most of the time.
  No birds & no visitors.
  C. [Caroline Brewster] & I worked all the forenoon
in the Museum, she copying I
revising M.S. [manuscript] before handing it to 
her. In the afternoon I tried
to compose some fresh matter on 
the Gooseanders [Goosanders] but got on badly
adding only a half page.
  C. went in town in a
carriage immediately after luncheon
to shop & to go with Minnie
to a lantern slide lecture on the
Panama Canal at Tremont Temple
this evening. E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] dined with me
at 7 & is about to read to me now.

Cambridge.
Ther. [Thermometer] Sat. [Saturday] Feb. 18, 1911 [February 18, 1911] Wea. [Weather]
Dull.
Cloudy, mild calm. The sleighing
has been nearly ruined by the 
downpour of yesterday.
  Crows cawing; no other birds.
  A few days ago I answered an
advertisement in the Transcript of 
a man wanting a place. He called
last evening & I liked him. I spent
most of this forenoon telephoning to
people for whom he has worked.
They spoke so well of him that
I engaged him this evening.
after a second interview. His name 
is Percy Harris, London-born &
40 years of age.
  Worked on Gooseander [Goosander] article
through afternoon & scraps of
forenoon adding 2 pp. [pages] C. [Caroline Brewster] & E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons]
read to me this evening.