Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] SAT. JAN. 4, 1913 [Saturday, January 4, 1913]  Wea [Weather]
40 [40 degrees]          Wild
A wild day with a living gale
blowing out of the West, the sky
obscured by driving cloud masses.
It seemed to blow harder than 
during last night when the velocity
of the wind exceeded forty miles, the 
papers say. Our lawn is strewn
with branches from the old lindens
but no very large ones, fortunately.
  In Garden saw 2 Chickadees
at suet & a Flicker in the Jungle.
Heard a Downy [downy woodpecker] & the chirp of
a Sparrow which I think was the 
White-throat.
  Spent day in Museum. Began
Woodcock story. It dragged & I 
wrote less than 2 pp. [2 pages]. Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] type
copied the 2 p. Wilson's Phalarope for me
& did it very well.
C.[Caroline] & E. read aloud in hall this
evening.
Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] SUN. JAN. 5, 1913 [Sunday, January 5, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Snow drops [snowdrops] bloom.      Fine
Clear & mild with fresh W. [west] wind.
E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] tells me that she saw at
least a dozen snow drops [snowdrops] in
full bloom yesterday in front of
Robert Morrison's house, Farrar St.,
Cambridge where they formed a 
long double line.
  In our Garden I saw 3 Downey
Woodpeckers (male  2 female) [3 downy woodpeckers, male, two females] together at 10 A.M.
They were mostly on stalks of tall
herbacious [herbaceous] plants but also in pear trees.
Also saw a Chickadee & House Sparrows.
Three Gray Squirrels chasing in lindens.
  Spent day in Museum writing
letters - one of 8 pp. [8 pages] to Taverner
about popular sentimentality regarding
animal life etc. C. went alone to
church. My cold better but still
somewhat troublesome. Miss Allyn
dined with us.  C. & E. read aloud
in hall this evening.