Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Dec. 17, 1916 [December 17, 1916] Wea [Weather]
Fine

  Clear & cold with keen northerly wind.
No melting snow, even in sunniest nooks.

  In Garden. A Chickadee at suet; a
Goldcrest [Golden-crowned Kinglet] heard; an adult Peabody bird
feeding on millet seed with 40+ House Sparrows,
in spot where ground has been cleared of
snow; 2 Purple Finches (new-comers) in
plain gray pl.[plumage], eating fruit of Parkman's apple
with which the tree is most abundantly
suppled [supplied] & none of which has hitherto been
touched by birds or squirrels before this autumn;
a [male] Hairy Woodpecker, with red on nape
divided into two widely separated lateral
spots, hammering loudly at trunk of
catalapa [catalpa] tree by Museum; 3 Crows on wing,
cawing vociferously.

  Spent forenoon in Museum working on
rough draft of new will drawn by Mr. Brown
& received from him yesterday. C. [Caroline Brewster], who heard it
read this evening, heartily approves it.
  Kitty Frick & the Spelmans dined with us
on a big turkey gobbler from the Farm. We all
thought it enormously good. They stayed
until 4 P.M. I wrote several letters after that.
Reading aloud and Victrola music this evening.

Cambridge - Boston
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Dec. 18, 1916 [December 18, 1916] Wea [Weather]
14 [degrees] Fair

  Forenoon sunny; afternoon cloudy &
chilly. Very cold last night. Almost windless
through day. Fine sleighing throughout
Cambridge. Horse-drawn vehicles on runners
apparently outnumbering motor ones, even
in Boston where, however, the horses were
constantly slipping & not infrequently falling,
the streets were so very slippery with snow & ice.

  In Garden: a Downy [Downy Woodpecker] heard; a Purple Finch
seen in Parkman's apple tree. 
  Went in town at 10.30. At office most
of time from 11.30 to 3. Mr. Brown called
on me there at 2 P.M. to talk over draft of
my new will in which we made a few changes.
We also openned [opened] & read C's will (1913) at her
request & I brought it out to her afterwards.
Saw Arthur, Galloupe [Frederic R. Galloupe] & Darling. In lower
office sold at 65 3/8 ten shares U.S. Rubber,
common, bought several years ago @ [at] 46.
Lunched at Marston's. Left office about 3 &
stopped at Harvard Coop [Harvard Cooperative Society store] on way out to buy
Christmas cards, shoes, overshoes etc. Walked
up from Square with Harry Spelman.
E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] went to Mrs. Edes' surprise party at 8.
I read aloud & played Victrola to C. [Caroline Brewster], "cutting"
the Nuttall Club meeting.