Cambridge - Boston
Ther [Thermometer] WED. DEC. 10, 1913 [Wednesday, December 10, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Resign Presidency Aud.Soc. [Audubon Society]      Dull
Cloudy & warmer with light S. [south] wind.
Snow practically all gone. Streets dusty.
5 Chickadees at suet. Downy [Downy Woodpecker] heard
in Garden.
  Spent forenoon in Museum working
on Marsh Hawk story. Revised pp. [pages]
written yesterday & added two fresh
ones - copied almost verbatim from
journal. Also read proof of Museum
report & mailed in to Henshaw.
  Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] motored me to Harvard Square at
2 P.M. Had hair cut & then went
in town. Visited two photograph places
& reached Bos.Soc. [Boston Society] at 3.50.
Presided over meeting of Mass. Aud.
Soc. [Massachusetts Audubon Society] in basement 4.15 - 6. At its
close resigned from both Presidency &
Board of Directors giving as reason my
wish to devote myself to ornithological
work & to eliminate all duties - possibly [symbol]
[?] that conflict with it. 
[margin] No one seemed disposed to try to make me reconsider this decision
realising no doubt that it would be useless.[/margin]
Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] THURS. DEC.11,1913 [Thursday, December 11, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Fine.
  Clear & colder with fresh N.W. [northwest] wind.
Sidewalks, streets & lawns thinly
encrusted with icy snow that fell 
last night.
  5 Chickadees at suet. Jay screaming
in Jungle. Crows cawing at sunrise.
  Spent day in Museum working from
(10 A.M. to 6 P.M.) on Marsh Hawk
story adding three more pp.[three more pages] and
practically finishing it. C.[Caroline] worked
all the forenoon type copying it.
She seems to think it equal in quality
to the average product of last winter.
I have written part of it without
having to copy my first draft but
not without revising this.
  William Hayward dined with us at
6.30 & went with C. [Caroline] to an evening concert
E.R.S. [Elizabeth Simmons] read to me after dinner.