Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Jan. 10, 1917 [January 10, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Fair
  Early morn sunny; cloudy after 10 A.M.
with chill, damp wind blowing over
melting snow & ice.
  Garden birds. Purple Finches back again
7 of them, all gray ones, feeding in or beneath
Parkman's apple tree after 8-9.30 A.M.
Goldcrest Kinglet in willow by Museum
gate. A Peabody bird singing faintly
in lilacs. About a dozen House Sparrows,
Gray Squirrels must be hibernating now.
I have not set eyes on one for
several days. 
  Worked in Museum all day writing
letters in forenoon, Concord notes
after luncheon. Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] motored C. [Caroline Brewster]
around. Fresh Pond & through Belmont
(12-1.15). She found it chilly riding
& thinks the car had best be stored
at Concord for remainder of winter.
  Harry Bartlett called this evening 
to discuss Kenneth Fund. He will now
write to Ken. asking for a statement as
to how allowances have been spent & will
await answer before sending more money.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Jan. 11, 1917 [January 11, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Stormy
  Snow falling thick & fast all the forenoon.
When it ceased abruptly at 1 P.M. it had
covered the ground very evenly to a depth
of four or five inches but the trees and
shrubbery were not much encumbered by it.
There was a bitter chill in the air all day
and towards night intense cold no doubt resulting from 
a considerable fall of temperature although
that statement is made without having looked
at an outside thermometer. 
  Garden birds. A Chickadee in willows
by Museum gate; a Peabody bird and 
Blue Jay in lilacs; half a dozen or
more House Sparrows.
  Spent entire day at my desk in
Museum, working at autumnal
field notes made at Concord.
Although the task of compiling
them seems endless and altogether
not worth the time it is taking I
cannot bring myself to leave it unfinished
E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read to C. [Caroline Brewster] & me the by hall fire this eve
I played Victrola afterwards.