Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Feb. 9, 1917 [February 9, 1917] Wea [Weather]
32 [degrees], 36 [degrees] Stormy
Dark cloudy, damp & chilly with rather
scattered snow flakes falling ceaselessly &
melting as fast as they struck so that
little was added to snow alread [already] on the
ground save a thin coating of slush.
  Garden birds. A White-throat [White-throated Sparrow] & 6 or 8
House Sparrows in clothes yard feeding
on bread fragments put out for them there.
Crow cawing not far off.
  This is the 39th anniversary of C's [Caroline Brewster]
& my wedding day. We passed it
much as other days are passed although
there were one or two presents and also
flowers of several kinds - roses,
daffodils & carnations. C. had a rather
severe headache. I read aloud to her
after breakfast & luncheon. The weather
reminded us both of that on Feb. 9,
1878 [February 9, 1978] although then there was much
heavier snow fall.
  My work in Museum was devoted to
finishing the Bobolink story which had
to be mostly rewritten. C. read to me
in front hall this evening.

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Feb. 10, 1917 [February 10, 1917] Wea [Weather]
2 [degrees], 8 [degrees] Fine
Brilliantly clear & bitterly cold with
high N.W. [northwest] wind. Perfect sleighing.
  Garden birds. A Jay in the lilacs,
Crows cawing somewhere near, 20
House Sparrows in clothes yard. The
list includes no more.
  Further revision of the brief Bobolink
story occupied most of my day.
Why cannot I get such a trifle down
right after copying it three or four
times. Even then it rarely pleases,
me - or perhaps I should say satisfies.
for there is ever much pleasure in
all such composition.
  Dick Dana [Richard Henry Dana Jr.] called in late P.M. staying
about an hour. We talked mostly about
Dan [Daniel Chester French], whom he saw last week in N.Y. [New York],
about Miss Butler, whom he knows &
considers accurate as to knowledge & statement,
about German submarines, most of which
he thinks the British will destroy before
they can do much further damage.
Evening spent in hall. E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] reading aloud 
from "Shirley."