Cambridge 
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Mar. 25, 1917 [March 25, 1917] Wea [Weather]
46 [degrees] max. [maximum] Perfect.
Brilliantly clear & just seasonably
warm (or cool) with gentle easterly
breeze blowing fitfully. Most typical
spring day thus far.
  Garden birds. 2 Flickers shouting (one
afar off), 2 Jays, 2 [male] Grackles, 5 Crows
on wing, [female] Downy [Downy Woodpecker] at suet, several
Robins calling far and near & one singing
briefly & faintly, at evening.
  Wrote several letters after breakfast.
Started for a walk at noon. Went up
Brattle St. & Fayerweather St., returned via
Highland & Brewster Sts. Found all
the Spelmans working in garden & stopped
to chat with them.
  Mrs. Cobb, Lizzy Fuller & Alice Allyn
our guests at dinner. At 3.30 called
on Charlie & Ruthven Deane. Dick
Dana [Richard Henry Dana Jr.] there. Had a long talk with them
in familiar library of family house.
Home by 5.30. Harry Bartlett called
this eve [evening] (8.30-10). He will cable 
25 [pounds] to Jeff. to morrow.

Cambridge 
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Mar. 26, 1917 [March 26, 1917] Wea [Weather]
56 [degrees] max. [maximum] First Squills Ideal.
Cloudless, windless; warmest day thus
far yet with bracing tang in the
still, sun-bathed air.
  Several squills in Museum bed showing
blue flowers almost ready to open.
Hundreds of snowdrops & a few purple
& white crocuses in full bloom.
Snow & ice almost all gone.
  Garden birds. A Robin on lawn, 2 calling
at sunset; White-throat Sparrow [White-throated Sparrow] in nearly
full song at 9 A.M.; Flicker shouting
at intervals all day; 3 [male] Grackles
stalking along driveway; 2 Jays; Crows
heard.
  Worked in Museum through forenoon, 
writing letters & cheques for bills.
In P.M. motored to Union stock Yards
Watertown to enquire about manure.
They have plenty of horse manure @ [at] 3.25
Saw many horses awaiting transport to 
France - nearly all clumsy, sorry-looking
animals & some apparently ill.
Evening reading in hall.