Cambridge - Boston
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Jan. 6, 1917 [January 6, 1917] Wea [Weather]
52 [degrees], 40 [degrees] Superb
A rare mid-winter day, more like
one in early spring, almost windless,
wholly cloudless, with air deliciously
cool and bracing, yet not frosty or even
chilly, but so sweet & pure that one
breathed it with joy & thankfulness.
  Garden birds. A Junco & a White-throat
Sparrow [White-throated Sparrow] flitting through lilacs & finally
into rhododendrons by Museum, shortly
before sunset; a score or more of noisy
House Sparrows; Crows cawing at sunrise
8 Herring Gulls flying high northward
in harrow formation, at 7.30 A.M.
  To Boston at 10.30. Called at 53 Dev. St. &
talked with Mr. Brown about my will & with
Miss Berry about Kenneth fund. Reached our
office at 11. Meeting of Grenfell Directors there,
12-1. Attended by Dr. Blake, Prof. Daly,
Mr. Green, F.R. Galloupe, Miss Smith & W.B.
Routine business mostly. Lunched at
Marsten's. Left office about 3 & walked to
Summer St. calling at Thorpe & Martins.
Home by 5.40. Reading & music in
hall at evening.

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Jan. 7, 1917 [January 7, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Fine
  Morning not unlike that of yesterday
but cooler & indeed a bit frosty as slush &
mud, stiffened over night, bore witness.
Nevertheless twas good to be out of doors
when, at 10 A.M., I walked down Brattle
Street with C. [Caroline Brewster] She being left to call on
Mrs. Sawyer I returned & kept on up the
street past the old Nichols house now
regretably [regrettably] transformed & conspicuous in its
fresh coat of sharply contrasting rich brown
& pure white paint. By this time a
keen wind had begun to blow and
later in the day clouds gathered but not
sufficiently to overspread the whole sky.
After getting back from this walk I wrote
letters & then went to the Deanes to escort
C. home. I saw there Margie - who looked
pathetically worn & haggard - Walter &
May Dexter. Our guests at dinner were
Miss Mary Allen, Alice Allyn & Helen
Almy. They stayed until past 4. I played
a few records. Reading aloud this evening.
Garden birds. A White-throat [White-throated Sparrow] by Mus. [Museum] gate;
a Downy [Downy Woodpecker] in or near lindens, a Gull
high in air; not many House Sparrows;
one Crow.