Cambridge - Boston.
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Feb.23, 1916 [February 23, 1916] Wea [Weather] Dull.
Income tax returns.
  Dark cloudy with alternating
rain & sleet falling for half an hour
or more in mid afternoon. Very
gloomy & intensely chilly day.
  In Garden: Heard a Chickadee &
a Robin calling and saw a Flicker
& a Blue Jay. Percy reports a
Robin "in full song" in early morn. [morning].
A Peabody bird calling at eve.[evening].
  Went in town shortly after
breakfast. Spent most of forenoon
in office working over income
Tax returns with Galloupe. To
my surprise he makes out that I
shall have nothing to pay this year.
He has discovered that last year the
tax on my annuity was by mistake
paid twice over, once by Estate & again
by me. After we had finished the
irksome task we dined together at Youngs.
After that I called at Steinert's for
a lot of records & then [?] out
home. Tried records this evening
& got several very good ones by
Gogorza [De Gogorza?] & Kriesler [Kreisler].

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Feb. 24, 1916 [February 24, 1916]  Wea [Weather]
22 [degrees] Dull.
  Dark cloudy with exceedingly
minute snow flakes falling sparsely
every now & then. Intensely chilly.
  In Garden: 2 dull-colored
Peabody birds, [?] of
House Sparrows and a Blue Jay
were all the birds I noted.
  To Harvard Square at 10 A.M.
spent about half an hour in
Dr. Andrews' chair. He replaced
my broken tooth by another.
After that did a little shopping
and then walked home.
  Spent afternoon in Museum
writing letters and cheques
for bills. We had the usual
Victrola concert & reading aloud
in hall this evening. I read
the war news, E.R.S.[Elizabeth R. Simmons] read
a chapter from Trollope's
"Eustis Diamonds [Eustace Diamonds]".