Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Jan. 12, 1914 [January 12, 1914] Wea [Weather]
16 [degrees] Fair
  Cold with blustering N.W. [northwest] wind.
Sunny for most part but darkly cloudy
about noon with snow squalls & wind
reported in Boston at 60 miles from home for
a few minutes.
  Lots of birds in Garden. 3 Jays
flitting through lilacs with crusts of
bread in their bills at 8 A.M. The
Woodpecker brigade, consisting on this
occasion of 1 [male] & 2 [female] Hairies, a [female]
Downy and a [male] Flicker, appeared at
11 A.M., the Flicker to feast on little
Parkman's apples in close association with
a Gray Squirrel similarly employed, the
other four birds to remain long in the willow
behind Museum. Chickadees to the number
if at least 5 or 6 revisited the suet at
frequent intervals all day long.
  I worked at accustomed task, in
forenoon revising Golden Eagle story for C. [Caroline Brewster]
to copy, after luncheon on Rough-legged Hawk
story to which I added almost a page.
C. down with a headache this evening.
E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read to me from "He Knew He was Right"
Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Jan. 13, 1914 [January 13, 1914] Wea [Weather]
-8, -2, -8 Bitter cold Fine
  Despite bright & [?] sunshine
the temperature rose no higher than -2
throughout the day falling to -8 by
7 P.M. or precisely where it had been
at daybreak. A raging N.W. [northwest] wind must
have added greatly to the discomfort of
those much exposed to it. We have
had no severer winter weather for many
a year.
  One of two Chickadees visiting the suet.
Nothing else seen about the place.
  I was exposed to the cold only when
going to & from the Museum and perhaps
should not have ventured on even this
because of a bronchial cold which has
been growing steadily worse & now
gives me no little discomfort.
  My writing did not prosper to-day,
which was spent mostly in revising
& recasting the Golden Eagle story, as
yet unfinished. I was interrupted in
P.M. by Mc.Millan, Phelan & Mills who
came to talk over plumbing & electric wiring
at 6 Riedesel Ave. It will cost about $300.