Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Jan. 20, 1914 [January 20, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Stormy
Snowing all day long & into
the following night but so fitfully
and lightly that scarce two inches
had fallen by 6 P.M.
  A Chickadee at my window suet, 
a Crow heard cawing & a House
Sparrow chattering were the only birds
noted.
  Spent almost the whole forenoon
writing letters. Among these was a
rather difficult one to Mrs. J.W. Elliot
in reply to her note, received yesterday, 
thanking me for my long service as
President of the Massachusetts Audubon
Society & accepting my resignation
(tendered last December) on behalf of
the board of Directors.
  In the afternoon I worked on the
Bald Eagle story writing a little m [more]
than 2 pp. [pages] of freshly composed matter.
  E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] returned this eve. [evening]. Mrs. Thayer
has eaten nothing for two days & is
seemingly near her end. Her son Will
arrived from Baltimore to-day.

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Jan. 21, 1914 [January 21, 1914] Wea [Weather]
First sleighing. Mixed.
Snowing all last night & most of
this forenoon but the snow was no
more than 4" [inches] deep when the sun
finally reappeared at 1 P.M. It then
loaded every twig for there had been
no wind. Sleighs running everywhere
in our streets, for first time this winter.
  A Chickadee came to suet at my window,
the only bird of any kind noted to-day.
  Most of the forenoon had to be
devoted to writing letters, cheques etc.
I sent a long letter that came from
Arthur Estabrook last evening to our
office by special messenger about 10
A.M. It related to Bassett & gave a
full history of how & why he was
forced to leave my father's firm. I asked
Galloupe to show it to Buttrick & to Abbott.
The latter has sent me a draft of a
letter he advises me to write Bassett.
It seems excellent but I shall sleep on it.
  Worked all P.M. on Bald Eagle story
adding two freshly composed pp. [pages] & rewriting
one done before. C. [Caroline Brewster] & E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read aloud
in hall this eve, [evening]. Mrs Thayer still alive.