Cambridge.
Work on Umbagog birds resumed.
Ther [Thermometer] MON. DEC. 8, 1913 [Monday, December 8, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Light snowfall.     Stormy
Cloudy with raw & violent northerly
wind and snow falling most
of P.M. at times heavily but mostly
melting as it struck, because, no
doubt, of the still undissipated warm [warmth]
of the earth for grassy places &
evergreen foliage became thickly
encrusted with it & remains [remained] so giving
the landscape generally a wintry aspect[.]
A Chickadee or two at the suet
were the only birds seen by me to-day.
  Not long after breakfast I resumed
work on the Birds of Umbagog
where it was discontinued last
March, beginning with the Marsh Hawk
& sticking to the task all day
writing almost two pp. [two pages]. Miss Balch
lunched with E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] & me, C. [Caroline] being in 
town. We all sat reading in hall this eve. [evening].
Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] TUES. DEC. 9, 1913 [Tuesday, December 9, 1913] Wea [Weather]
20º [20 degrees], 32º [32 degrees]  Wintry conditions.  Fine
  Clear & cold with fresh northerly
wind, both temperature & wind moderating
as the day wore on.
Crows calling at house at sunrise.
White-throat S. [White-throated Sparrow] in Garden all
day. Chickadees visiting suet.
  Spent day in Museum working
on Marsh Hawk story. Had to
rewrite pretty much all composed
yesterday to which less than two
pp. [two pages] of fresh matter were added.
Hence the task does not progress
very rapidly as yet - nor ever will,
I fancy.
  Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] still wrestling with new
quarium [aquarium] tank - not as yet made tight.
He motored C. [Caroline] to Arlington Heights in
P.M. She read Trollope to E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] & me
this evening.
