Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Jan. 8, 1915 [January 8, 1915] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear and enough colder to freeze 
up all the mud and slush yet not 
sufficiently so to be uncomfortable.
  In Garden: heard a Flicker & a 
Downy [Downy Woodpecker]; saw a Jay and many House 
Sparrows; also 2 crows.
  Our house bulbs were planted very 
late this year and hence are far 
behind the usual times of blooming.
As yet we have had only paper
whites & Roman hyacinths.They 
began a day or two after Christmas 
and are still very attractive.
  Spent day in Museum walking on 
Sapsucker story. Fussed over the 
two pp. [pages] composed yesterday, revising
and rewriting them, without adding
much new matter. Yet I kept at
it ceaselessly from 10.30 A.M. to 6 P.M.
with only an hour out for lunch.
We all dined with the Cobb-Fullers at
6.30 & spent the evening there.

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Jan. 9, 1915 [January 9, 1915] Wea [Weather]
Death of Carry Hayes. Fine
Brilliantly clear with almost no wind.
Air dry & frosty but not especially cold.
Altogether a delightful winter day.
  In Garden: a Chickadee (heard), 3 Jays
together in Jungle, Flicker in Parkman apple,
Downy [Downy Woodpecker] (heard), House Sparrows as usual.
  News reached us at breakfast time
of my old friend Carry Haye's death,
last evening, of apoplexy. I sent a
note of sympathy to her brother, Will, 
early in the forenoon. Worked from
11 A.M. to 1 P.M. on Sapsucker story
rewriting a page (for third time) &
adding a little fresh matter. It
drags woefully and the end is not
yet in sight yet I love the work as
much as ever.
  Fred Kennard came by appointment
shortly after 2 P.M. & stayed about 2 hours.
He brought M.S. [manuscript] he had written on food
plants that attract birds. Walter also came to
hear it read. We criticized it a little, here 
& there.
  Alice & Harry Bartlett dropped in at 8.20.
I played Victrola music for them.