Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Dec. 8, 1914 [December 8, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Stormy
Dark cloudy with drizzling rain freezing
as it struck & coating every branch &
tiniest twig with clear ice yet not
heavily enough to do much damage to
our trees. Light, chill easterly wind.
  In Garden: a Crow heard & several
forlorn & water-soaked House Sparrows
seen.
  Spent day in Museum working on
Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker story & adding
to it a page of freshly composed matter.
Writing comes harder even that usual
with me this time after having so long
ceased to practise [practice] it yet my interest
in the task is as keen as ever, I am 
happy to say.
  Mrs. Almy, Mary & Helen came in
this morning to hear Victrola music
and listened to it ceaselessly for
almost two hours.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Dec. 9, 1914 [December 9, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Dull.
Dark cloudy with intensely chill N.E [northeast] 
wind; altogether a gloomy & disagreeable day.
  In Garden heard a Jay & saw a few
House Sparrows.
  Spent entire day at desk in Museum
working on Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker
story. Added to it a page of freshly
composed matter and then pages of 
notes compiled from Journal. Was
interrupted in forenoon by visit of man
who came to obtain data relating 
to my accident policy for the
Insurance company that issued it.
  Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] went to Concord this morning
finding the country there so ice coated
that no horse-drawn teams could
travel its roads. Burbank had to
send our supplies to town by Lawrence
who conveyed them & the school children
in his automobile.
  Victrola music & reading of war news
in hall this eve [evening].