Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Dec. 16, 1914 [December 16, 1914] Wea [Weather]
12 [degrees] Fine
Clear & cold with light N.W. [northwest] wind.
  In Garden: a Golden-crested Kinglet,
a Jay, a Flicker & a Downy heard
and several House Sparrows seen.
  Spent day in Museum working 
on Banded Woodpecker story. Added
two or three pages of rather poorly
written matter & most of this compiled
from Journal. Word reached us this 
morning from Mrs. Bruce that
George Sawyer, who dined with us on
Thanksgiving day, had dropped dead
last night in his rooms in the old
Craigie Mansion now a boarding house.
C. [Caroline Brewster] hurried down there at once, to
be with Mrs. Sawyer through the
day as was Mrs. Bruce.
  I called on the Bruces this evening
& spent an hour with them pleasantly.
  Our bulbs were planted late this
year & are very backward. Even the
paper whites have not begun to bloom.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Dec. 17, 1914 [December 17, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear & calm with keen, frosty air
less cold, however, than that of yesterday.
  The Garden apparently quite barren
of bird life save for the presence of
a few House sparrows. I have not 
set eyes on a Squirrel for more than
a week nor has "Tim", the little
Irish Terrier, if one may judge by
his present lack of interest in the
Jungle.
  Spent day at my usual task.
Compiled three more pages from Journal
for Banded Woodpecker story. C. [Caroline Brewster]
type-writing it for an hour before &
two hours after luncheon.
  "We Dine" at Walter Deane's this eve. [evening]
Everyone there except Barbour. I sat
on Walter's left with Townsend next me.
Talked mostly with Bent, about his
book, after dinner.