Letter to Schubert Cambridge - Boston
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Mar. 7, 1917 [March 7, 1917] Wea [Weather]
20 [degree] min. New will executed Perfect
Weather-breeder type of day, cloudless,
windless, with brilliant sunshine. Early morn
cold, midday hours mild. Snow melting
fast but no bare ground as yet.
  Garden birds. Redpoll & 3 Crows on
wing, plenty of House Sparrows.
  To Boston at 10.15. At office 10.45-3. Dealt
there with: (1) letter from Arthur Schubert who
says Haley has been writing letters accusing him
of lack of discipline while at our school.
Wrote him that Trustees could not interfere in
such a matter. (2) Letter from Edmund Parker
offering to lease lower apartment 61 Sparks St.
@ $400. if we would connect it by archway
with his house. Answered that this impressed me
favorably & asked him to submit a more 
definite proposal that could be signed as a 
binding agreement if acceptable to us.
Dictated 3 more letters - to Judge Abbott,
Mr. Morrison & Shaw. All this done with
Sted. Butterick's knowledge & full approval.
Mr. Brown called at 12.30 with my new will.
We executed it in Estabrook & Co's office where
Mr. Hobbs & Mr. Watson witnessed it.
Home by 4 P.M. Usual evening
reading of Villelle [Villette] - I mean "Shirley"

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Mar. 8, 1917 [March 8, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Stormy
Drizzling rain, descending from darkly
clouded sky, settled the snow rather more
than did the warm sunshine of
yesterday. Boston Streets said to be
impassible & closed to all traffic in
some parts of that city. Almost
everything on runners in Cambridge
for the sleighing still holds & it is 
no time for automobiles to gad
about unless forced to do so.
  Our house tulips & hyacinths are
just now at their very best & 
making, we think, a finer show
than those of any previous year,
  Garden birds. Crow heard, 2 Jays seen,
very many House Sparrows.
  Worked all day on Rusty Blackbird
story advancing it somewhat.
C. [Caroline Brewster] went in town at 4 P.M. to
attend a service at St. Pauls.
She was not down this evening
when E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read to me from "Shirley"