Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Jan. 24, 1914 [January 24, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Mrs. J.B. Thayer dies. Stormy
Raining steadily nearly all
day. Very mild with dense fog.
  2 Crows calling in early morning.
Either a Hairy or a Downy Woodpecker
heard in the Jungle or beyond.
No other birds of any kind.
One Gray Squirrel.
  Worked all day on Bald Eagle 
story, adding to it no less than 7 M.S.
pages. Of course they were largely
compiled from my journal but
even so it was an unusual
accomplishment for me. As far as
I can now judge this Eagle story 
is finished but there will doubtless
have to be a good of time devoted
to revising, if not rewriting, parts
of it. 
  E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] went down to Phillips Place
just after luncheon. She returned at
8.30 with the news that Mrs. Thayer
had died quietly half an hour before.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Jan. 25, 1914 [January 25, 1914] Wea [Weather]
15 [degrees] Fine.
Clear & cold with fresh N.W. [Northwest] wind.
  3 Chickadees at the suet
A Hairy Woodpecker in the Jungle.
Two Gray Squirrels scurrying about together,
growling, in pigeon loft over my study
where they have nested & reared young for
several seasons past but have not been
heard before this year. I think it
must have been an amatory encounter
on this occasion.
  Stayed away from church again because
of my cough. C. [Caroline Brewster] says I missed some
rare music & a fine sermon by Dr. H. [Dr. Hodges]
  I spent most of day in Museum
writing letters, the Eagle story being 
unlooked at. Alice Allyn dined
with C. & me. E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] dined at
Phillips Place. Will Thayer came
thence at 5 P.M. to call on us.
He is a rarely attractive as well as 
impressive man. He read Mrs. Thayer's
will to us. It is full of elevated thought
& feeling for she wrote it herself.