Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer] Tues. [Tuesday] Feb. 21, 1911 [February 21, 1911] Wea. [Weather]
12 [degrees] Fine
Clear & cold with light W. [west] wind.
No birds.
  Spent day in Museum at 
my usual task. Rewrote part 
of Gooseander [Goosander] article & added a
fresh page or two. C. [Caroline Brewster] copied
all the forenoon & then went off
to a wedding. Bessy Allen, 
Emmy Kettell & I lunched together.
Harry & Alice Bartlett dined
with me and spent the
evening. Percy Harris, the new
man, began work this morning.
He seemed to take hold of it
well.
  There is good sleighing again.

Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer] Wed. [Wednesday] Feb. 22, 1911 [February 22, 1911] Wea. [Weather]
10 [degrees] Fine
Clear & cold with light W. [west] wind.
No birds.
  Spent day in Museum working
on the Gooseander [Goosander] article revising
what I wrote yesterday &
adding two fresh pages of M.S. [manuscript].
  At 5 P.M. C. [Caroline Brewster] & I were driven
to Quincy Street where we called
on President & Mrs. Lowell. We
found Mrs. Lowell alone at first
& she gave us afternoon tea. Her
husband came down presently & I
talked with him, about Leopard moths
chiefly, for nearly half an hour.
Purdie [Henry A. Purdie] arrived at 6 to dine
with C. Emmy, Miss Swazy & me.
He stayed until 10. The three
ladies went in town to hear
Beatrice Herford. E.R.S [Elizabeth R. Simmons] went to
New York this forenoon for her
nephew, George's, wedding to-morrow.