Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Jan. 8, 1919 [January 8, 1919] Wea [Weather]
Stormy.
  Another dark-cloudy, windless,
dreary day with fine rain
falling almost incessantly yet
not washing away much of the
thin snow-covering. 
  Garden birds: A Northern Shrike 
in full song seen by Percy Harris at
8 A.M. Its presence doubtless
accounted for the total absence of
all other birds during the entire
forenoon. In the afternoon two
Chickadees came to the suet &
half a dozen House Sparrows
into the clothes yard.
  My out-door excursions extended
no further than to the Museum
where both forenoon & afternoon
were spent as usual in writing
a few letters.

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Jan. 9, 1919  [January 9, 1919 ]Wea [Weather]
Dull.
  Continued dark and gloomy,
yet windless and not frosty weather,
very depressing because so tryingly
frequent & protracted for the
past month or more. Streets
& sidewalks again dangerously
ice-coated. Lawns covered thinly
with hard-frozen snow.
  Garden birds. A Chickadee at
suet; a House Sparrow in clothes 
yard; 3 Jays together in the
lindens.
  Walked up Brattle Street to the
Nichols place, after breakfast.
Wrote letters & cheques for bills
after returning to Museum.
C. [Caroline Brewster] walked hither from Ware Hall
to lunch with E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] & me.
Later we had Victrola music.
  Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] motored her back at
3.45 P.M. Usual evening
reading.