Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Jan. 18, 1914 [January 18, 1914] Wea [Weather]
12 [degrees] Morrill Wyman's funeral. Fine
Clear & cold with fresh N.W. [northwest] wind.
  A Blue Jay screaming in the
Jungle. No other bird of any kind
seen or heard about the place. 
  Because of a lingering cough, the
aftermath of my recent cold, I did
not go to church this morning but
spent most of day in Museum,
working, I regret to say, on the
Golden Eagle story, after sternly
resolving to let it alone because there 
were letters to be written. Of course
I wrangled with it rather fruitlessly as
usual yet several refractory passages
were finally licked into something
like decent shape & then I did 
write some of the more pressing letters.
I wonder how my literary work
can draw & fascinate me so when
I find it so laborious.
  Mrs. Scudder, Mrs. Cobb, Lizzy Fuller &
Miss Allyn dined with C. [Caroline Brewster] & me. E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons]
with her brother, at Phillips Place all day.
[margin]Morrill Wyman's funeral in the old house at 3 P.M.[/margin]

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Jan. 19, 1914 [January 19, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Brown Thrasher returns Dull.
Cloudy, calm & mild but chilly
1 House Sparrow, the first noted this month.
2 or 3 Chickadees at the suet. A
Jay heard & a Hairy W. [Hairy Woodpecker] seen (by Gilbert).
  After being apparently absent from
our place ever since Dec. 30 last
(he was noted on the 31 on Willard Street),
the Brown Thrasher returned to-day
He was seen in the lilacs about 4 P.M.
by Gilbert & by me shortly afterwards.
Still later he was driven thrice from the
honeysuckle vine by Museum door by Gilbert's
passing in & out. At length, about 5 P.M.
he went to roost there for the night &
would not move when we stood in the
open door within 3 ft. of him. It was
then almost dark & he showed on
indistinctly well back in the tangle of vines
about as high as one's head.
  Worked through forenoon revising
Golden Eagle story as C. [Caroline Brewster] copied it. Began
Bald Eagle story after dinner & wrote 1 1/2
pp. by 6. Nuttall Club. F.H. Allen on
early morning singing. Only 9 of us to hear it.
  Mrs. Thayer sinking fast. E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] there
to spend night.