Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer]  MON. JAN. 10, 1910 [Monday, January 10, 1910]  Wea.[Weather]
20 min [20 degrees minimum]     Fine
Clear & cool with brisk W. [west] wind.
  Spent day in Museum. Worked
all forenoon on the Check List.
pasting in the last clipping just
before going to luncheon. Wrote
letters and cheques for bill in
afternoon. Letters came from
the Thayers, father & son, about
their wonderful book and one
from Francis Batch preparing
charges, which seem absurd but
which must be investigated, against
Forbush. I have called Balch
to redraft them, omitting certain
offensive words, so that I may 
submit them to Forbush & give
him an opportunity to disprove them.
C. [Caroline] seemed better through day but is
very tired this evening.
  2 Blue Jays & 2 Flickers in Garden.
Cambridge.
Ther.  TUES. JAN. 11, 1910  Wea.
13 min [13 degrees minimum]   Fine..
Clear & cold with light W. [west] wind.
Spent day in Museum, working
on my journal of the past 
year, rearranging the sheets & 
rewriting a few of the sentences
etc. A telegram received in A.M.
from Edwin Brewster gave me
my first intimation of the death
of Nathaniel J. Brewster at Walfeboro.
Charley Noyes called at 2.30
staying over an hour. All his
father's property is to be placed in
the hands of a receiver. The family 
obligations are about $5000, assets $3,500.
We hear tonight that Fitzgerald is 
elected Mayor of Boston, a dire calamity.
Our three household maids went on a 
sleigh ride this P.M. & had a smashup
but no one hurt.
2 [female] Flickers in a flock on snow by sun dial
this morning. Crow cawing in lindens.