Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Dec. 2, 1917 [December 2, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear & cold with high N.W. [northwest] wind.
Snow flurries last night & early this
morning have whitened stiff-frozen
ground again in many places.
Altogether he "look of things" suggests
that winter has fairly set in.
If so I may be unable to do what
should have been done ere this at Concord.
  No birds whatever noted anywhere about
our grounds. Harry Spelman reports
seeing a Sparrow Hawk at Cambridge
Cemetery this forenoon.
  Spent forenoon in Museum, working a
little on Introduction, also writing a 
letter to Henry Henshaw & another to
Dan French [Daniel Chester French].
  Miss Allyn & Frank Manning 
dined with us. We had one of the young
Concord turkies [turkeys] which proved
uncommon good. Frank was most
entertaining & delightful. He stayed on,
smoking with me, until 4.30. E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons]
read Trollope after supper. C. [Caroline Brewster] kept her room.

Cambridge - Boston.
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Dec. 3, 1917 [December 3, 1917] Wea [Weather]
18, 36 [degrees] Fine
Clear, calm, frosty but not chilly.
Altogether a very pleasant and
comfortable day for this time of year.
  Noticed no birds in our grounds.
  Wrote a letter or two after breakfast
& then went in town reaching our 
office before noon & finding Mr. Haley
there by chance. We had a rather
long talk after which I called on
H.K. Brown in his office. At C's [Caroline Brewster] request,
I told him she desired a Trustee appn'td [appointed]
to replace Mr. Leverett & had thought of
Frederic Curtiss. He did not know him
but did not oppose the idea of asking
him to accept the position which I
did an hour later when he at once
declined it being overwhelmed by work
at Federal Reserve Bank where I saw him.
Lunched at Thompson's. Called a [at] Jones,
Portland St. & bought 7 Gold Fish for 1.00.
Home by 5. Ann. Meet. [Annual Meeting] Nuttall Club
this eve. but I was too tired to attend
it & went to bed early - about 9.