Umbagog Task resumed. Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer] Monday, Nov. 26, 1917 [November 26, 1917] Wea [Weather]
20 [degrees], 25 [degrees], 18 [degrees] Fine
  Brilliantly clear & bitterly cold
with blustering northerly winds.
Ground frozen as hard as flint.
Grass on city lawns still green.
  Garden birds: 3 White-throated 
Sparrows flitting about among withered 
flower stalks and 2 Blue Jays
sunning themselves at the edge of a 
thicket bordering the birch grove.
There were also two or three House
Sparrows.
  Spent day in Museum. Got out
M.S. [manuscript] of Introduction to Umbagog 
soon after breakfast and worked 
at it almost ceaselessly and very
pleasingly until 6.P.M., making
some progress in emending &
amplifying it. For the first time
in many months this long-neglected 
task again appeals to me with 
renewed interest.
  C. [Caroline Brewster] had a serene & comfortable day.
E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read Trollope to me after supper.

Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer] Tuesday, Nov. 27, 1917 [November 27, 1917] Wea [Weather]
12 [degrees] 20 [degrees] Fine
  Cloudless and almost windless but 
intensely cold with keen, dry atmosphere.
  In Garden: one Peabody bird & two or
three House Sparrows.
  Our Gray Squirrels have disappeared
no doubt to hibernate temporarily, as
is their custom during such weather
at this season. They were much in
evidence a week or so ago
  Spent day in Museum working on
Umbagog Preface. Destroyed original 
after recopying int with a revised
draft which I trust will prove final.
It is very delightful to be this busied
with the familiar task once more.
  Two telephone calls proved equally
surprising, the first at 5.P.M.
from Mrs. Thos. Farley [Mrs. Thomas Farley] who was then
at North Station about to take 6 P.M.
train for Euclid, the second three hours
later from Dr. Gehring in Boston, who
will come out to see us tomorrow
forenoon.
  Henry Spelman called this evening & stayed
above an hour.