Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Jan. 16, 1919 [January 16, 1919] Wea [Weather] 
38 [degrees] Fine
Clear and mild with light northerly
wind. Snow & ice wholly gone.
Exposed grass of lawns only
faintly green.
  Garden birds. A Chickadee coming
to the suet, a Starling ([male]) eating
a few remaining Parkman apples.
  Spent most of day in Museum
writing letters & bird notes (about
Shrikes in Garden of late).
Walked up Brattle St. to Elmwood
in early afternoon.
  Mr. & Mrs. Edward Emerson
lunched with E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] & me at
1 P.M. He showed great interest
in our Riedesel window pane
and the printed story relating
to it, being, to my surprise,
wholly unfamiliar with both
& equally so, of course, to the
von Bernstoff development of 1917
establishing his relation to it.
 
Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Jan. 17, 1919 [January 17, 1919] Wea [Weather]
30 [degrees], 40 [degrees] Fair
Partly cloudy but mostly sunny
with little or no wind. Warmest
day of month thus far.
Garden birds: 4 Chickadees
together in lilacs, 2 House Sparrows
in clothes yard, Downy Woodpecker &
Blue Jay heard.
  The weeding out of books & 
pamphlets to be sent to
John Sherman of Mt. Vernon, N.Y.,
occupied much of my time to-day.
Some of the things thus discarded
are duplicates, others have
ceased to possess interest or value
in my esteem. Sherman will take
them all & pay me something in
cash. Sam Henshaw endorses him
& made no objection to my proposed
dealing with him when informed of it.
  C. [Caroline Brewster] walked up to take lunch with
E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] & me. We had Victrola music
after it. Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] motored her & Charlotte
back at 4 P.M.