Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Jan. 4, 1917 [January 4, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Cloudy, calm & chilly, yet mild enough
 to slowly melt the surface snow, converting
that remaining in city streets into grimy
slush unpleasing to behold
  The Garden seemed to be tenanted 
or visited only by a Peabody bird, 
a Blue Jay, very many house 
Sparrows (upwards of 30) and one
or two Gray Squirrels. 
  Worked all day on the resume
of autumnal field notes made at Concord
which I am revising and expanding 
with more than usual care, perhaps 
unwisely but none the less inevitably
because they interest me so and
also because selections from them
are to be read at the Nuttal Club 
meeting next Monday evening.
  Dick Dana [Richard H. Dana] called at 5.45 staying
half an hour or more. He is thinking
rather seriously of removing to New York
which I am selfish enough to hope
he will not do. 
  Evening passed as usual C. [Caroline Brewster] downstairs again

Cambridge 
Ther [Thermometer] Friday Jan. 5, 1917 [January 5, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Stormy
Rain fell continually and often heavily
all day long, from skies so densely 
overspread with low-hanging clouds that 
there was scarce light enough to read
by in doors. Being a very warm rain
it melted the snow, rapidly bringing 
into view small patches of bare earth 
about our house. The sleighing is 
ruined, of course.
  Garden Birds. Two White-throated Sparrows
together near Museum gate (no more than
one has certainly been noted before this 
since December ); a [male] Flicker eating
Parkman apples; a Jay in lilacs; about 
20 House Sparrows. 
  Worked all day without interruption
on transcript of Concord field notes, 
now nearing completion, I am 
thankful to say, although the 
compilation of them has proved very
interesting. We spent evening in lower hall and 
& reading aloud. I afterwards played
Victrola in upper hall where it sounds well.