Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Jan. 16, 1914 [January 16, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Dull
Cloudy, calm. chilly. Less than an
inch of snow fell last night but it
has whitened everything including the
trees & has melted but little to day.
  In the garden saw 2 Chickadees &
heard a Crow, also either a Hairy or a
Downy Woodpecker. A Screech Owl
wailed in the lindens for several minutes
shortly after 9 P.M. It is the first
noted about our place for several months
at least.
  The wind-up of the Golden Eagle
story occupied me all day & was
not completed until 6.30 P.M. although
making me no more than a page of my
M.S. [manuscript] and this practically written, I
thought, before I came in yesterday
evening. I cannot either understand
or defend the waste of time which
I so often squander on such a trifling 
task.
  C. [Caroline Brewster] read aloud to me this evening.
[margin]Morrill Wyman died of pneumonia at Oakley Club this morning
after a brief illness there.[/margin]

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Jan. 17, 1914 [January 17, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Dull.
Cloudy calm & mild but chilly
with decided drop of temperature towards
night. Ground & trees still thinly
covered with snow.
  At least 6, & I thought as many as
7 or 8, Chickadees trooped past Museum
about 9 A.M. without visiting the suet.
Heard a Jay later. C. [Caroline Brewster] reports hearing
a Screech Owl just before or at day break.
I wonder if he can have driven off
all the House Sparrows! Not one has
been seen to my knowledge about our
place this month.
  4 Barrow's Golden-eyes ordered from
Ward last night & were unpacked
this morning. I am getting them for Lord
Percy. 3 (ad [adult male] ad [adult male] [female] from Iceland are right
but 1 (im. [immature male] Penobscott Bay [Penobscot Bay]) is americana [Clangula clangula americana].
  Spent part of A.M. & whole of P.M.
on Golden Eagle story adding almost 2 pp. [pages]
of fresh matter - after thought.
  C. & E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] reading aloud in hall this evening.