Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Jan. 26, 1915 [January 26, 1915] Wea [Weather]
Fair
  Morning sunny, calm & beautiful
with crisp, frosty air. Sky overcast
by noon. Afternoon thin-cloudy with
chill easterly wind.
  In Garden: I saw a Jay, a Downy [Downy Woodpecker]
and 2 Flickers. All these appeared
about 9 A.M. The Flickers, both [males],
were together in Parkmann apple tree
feasting on its abundant fruit.
A few House Sparrows flitting about
all day. Gray Squirrels much in
evidence of late. I rarely look out
without seeing at least one & three or
four are sometimes in sight at once.
Their brief season of partial hibernation
is evidently ended but that of amorous
pursuit not as yet apparently begun.
  Worked all day on Log Cock story
compiling about 4 pp. [pages] from original
notes & practically rewriting most of the
matter. C. [Caroline Brewster] & I kept each other company
at every meal. In the evening she read
the war news to me and I played the
Victrola for her - up to 10 P.M.
Cambridge - Boston
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Jan. 27, 1915 [January 27, 1915] Wea [Weather]
Dull
  Dark cloudy with snow flakes
falling sparingly & fitfully, melting
as they struck for it was mild, if chilly.
  In Garden: a Jay or two and at
least one Flicker. Hordes of House
Sparrow - certainly fifteen or twenty.
  Working all day at Log Cock story,
added almost 5 pp. [pages]. For the first
time this winter I have written in
two days more than enough for C. [Caroline Brewster]
to type copy in a forenoon. This, 
however, is not due so much to
increased facility of composition as
to the fact that I have been
compiling matter that required less
alteration than usual.
  E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] returned from Springfield
this afternoon. I went in town
at evening to "We Dine" at Joe
Goodale's. Every one there except
Bent. Good time. I talked mostly
with Thaxter & Townsend.