Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Jan. 18, 1915 [January 18, 1915] Wea [Weather]
Black Ducks feeding on hillside. Stormy
Dark cloudy with persistent rain
rather heavy at times. Early morning
densely foggy. Mild. Easterly wind.
  To the Danas' at 9 A.M. Saw only a
maid who reported further improvement
in Mrs. Dana's condition. A starling
in the Thorpe elm. Brattle Street gutters
running brim full. Snow about all gone.
  Spent day in Museum working
on Log Cock story. Composed about
two pages of fresh matter. C. [Caroline Brewster]
type-copied these & everything
else, in forenoon. I cannot
now supply enough M.S. to
keep her busy twice a week
from 9.30 to 1 each day.
  Nuttall Club meeting this evening.
Peters talked about trip in Arizona.
Charlie Lamb reported seeing 21 Black
Ducks yesterday on wooded hillside, W. [West]
side Boathouse Nook, Fresh Pond. He watched
them feeding on ground under oaks & feels 
sure they were eating acorns.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Jan. 19, 1915 [January 19, 1915] Wea [Weather]
56 [degrees] James C. Melvin's death. Dull
  Cloudy; very warm; fresh southerly wind.
Snow & ice wholly gone. Lawn grass
decidedly, if only faintly green.
  In Garden: Jay & Downy [Downy Woodpecker] heard. Several H. Sparrows [House Sparrows]
Starling singing softly in elm front of Thorpe's.
  To the Dana's at 9 A.M. Mrs. Dana
steadily improving, the maid said.
Returning to Museum read war news
& had begun to write when C. [Caroline Brewster] came out
to tell me that Jim Melvin was dead. 
She had just heard of it by telephone
from Frank Baker who, a few moments
later & in the same way, told me this: -
it happened at Copley Square Hotel about
7 o'clock this morning as Mrs. M. was 
dressing. Hearing the sound of a heavy
fall she rushed into the bed chamber to
find Jim lifeless on floor by side of bed in
which she had left him awake & seemingly quite
well only a few minutes before. He had
slept through most of night. Baker was
with him last evening & never knew in better
seeming health & spirits. I saw him last
just before Christmas. He died of heart
failure. C. & I offered to go in after lunch
but Baker said Mrs. M. could not see us.
I wrote to Dan [Daniel Chester French], Ruth D. [Ruthven Deane], Charles Carter & 
Henry about. Also worked on Log Cock story
at odd times.