(Cambridge 
Ther. [Thermometer] Sunday, Jan. 14, 1917 [January 14, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Mixed
  Sometime last night the light snow
fall of yesterday afternoon turned into, or
was followed by, a rain storm which,
accompanied by rising temperatures & strong
wind, raged with exceeding violence through 
most of the forenoon, flooding every
depression from which the downpour of 
water could not quickly escape and 
 sweeping away very nearly all the snow &
ice accumulated during the past few weeks.
When, in late afternoon, the sun appeared
it shone on city lawns no longer robed in
wintry white but instead so uniformly bare
and so vividly green that they looked much
as they had in mid autumn - a truly
wondrous transformation because so soon
accomplished.
  Garden birds. Only a White-throat [White-throated Sparrow]
chirping in night shade vines by bay
window and half a dozen House Sparrows
eating Pigeon grain.
  Writing letters in A.M. & late P.M.
E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read aloud after supper. Dinner guests: -
Harry and May Cunningham, Mary Allen &
Mable Thaxter. They partook of a farm Turkey
& departed at 4 P.M.

Cambridge)
Ther. [Thermometer] Monday, Jan. 15, 1917 [January 15, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Death of Goose & Guinea hen at Concord Mixed
  Cloudy, windless & frostily cool with 
occasional brief periods of sunshine in 
late P.M.
  Garden birds. A gray Purple Finch
2 Blue Jays & a chattering throng of 
House Sparrows in trees or shrubbery
in front of Museum. Percy reports
seeing 2 Juncos somewhere among
the flower beds
  Wrote letters in forenoon,
Concord bird notes after
luncheon. Council & General
Meeting of Nuttall Club this 
evening. 16 members present.
Bent [Arthur Cleveland Bent] read his Life Histories of 
Loon & Black-back Gull [Black-backed Gull], both 
very full & interesting.
  I told a story of romantic mutual
attachment of Goose & Guinea hen & of
its fitting if not happy ending last week
when the Guinea hen died on Monday
much emaciated & the Goose a few days 
later in good physical condition &
I believe of a "broken heart". This information 
has reached me largely through Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert]
& may not be altogether correct. I have requested Burbank to write me fully about it