Cambridge - Boston
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Jan. 30, 1914 [January 30, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Fair
Cloudy & hazy. Calm. Very warm.
Snow & ice wholly gone.
  2 Chickadees, a Jay and a Crow
in the Garden. The Brown Thrasher on
his accustomed roost in vine by
Museum door when I entered it at
5.15. He did not show any 
uneasiness when I stopped for a moment
on the steps & "looked him in the eyes"
with my face level with his & scarce
two feet distant. Prof. F. W. Putnam
has been finding him daily for two
weeks past in the yard of 149 Brattle St.
according to Henry M. Spelman.
  Worked on Duck Hawk story most 
of forenoon, composing one page - the last.
  To Boston, after solitary home lunch,
reaching office at 2.15. Galloupe & I 
returned Hospital Life notes to vault &
took out mortgage for transfer. I 
signed & mailed letter to William Bassett
refusing to grant his recent request in re
money he desires from Trust to make good 
a traditionary claim against my father. Letter
mostly composed for me by Abbott. Home 
by 5.10. Alone this eve C. [Caroline Brewster] & E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] at their "Bee".
Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Jan. 31, 1914 [January 31, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Stormy
Dark cloudy with N.E. [northeast] wind and rain
falling ceaselessly all day & very heavily
at nightfall.
  The Brown Thrasher could be seen
dimly on his accustomed perch in the
vine when I looked for him there at 
6 P.M. It was then raining in torrents
and the vine was simply deluged
with water overflowing from a gutter
above. I heard a Flicker calling 
in the Garden earlier in the day.
  Worked all forenoon on revision of
Duck Hawk story revising it and
adding another paragraph at the end.
Began on Pigeon Hawk story just
after luncheon and wrote 1 1/2 pp.
of originally composed matter
before putting it away at six o'clock.
  C. [Caroline Brewster] & E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] went to see Robertson
in Hamlet & are deeply impressed by him.
They began to read "Ayala's Angel" to me
this evening.