Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Jan. 6, 1918 [January 6, 1918] Wea [Weather]
12 [degrees], 26 [degrees] Perfect.
  Cloudless almost windless and
comparatively mild - or, at least,
so it seemed after the excessive
cold of the past eight days. 
Snow thawing a little in sheltered,
sunny places and tiny rills of
water trickling over stone or brick
sidewalks.
  Garden birds 4 Chickadees at suet,
12 Starlings trying to eat Parkman
apples but kept from doing so by my
jerking, every now & then, at a cord
now strung from Museum window to
top of tree; a screaming Jay; several
House Sparrows.
  After writing several letters in
Museum I walked up Brattle St.
at noon, returned with Woodward
Emery, called on Walter Deane (now
nearly well again) & finally on Mrs. Bruce.
  We had at dinner Mrs. Garde, Mrs. Finks
& Miss Allyn. C. [Caroline Brewster] down to greet them.
Almy came before they left & Harry
Bartlett to pass the evening.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Jan. 7, 1918 [January 7, 1918] Wea [Weather]
Stormy
A dismal day, dark cloudy
with incessant icy rain freezing to
whatever it happened to strike
and rendering streets & sidewalks too
slippery to be trodden on without
the greatest caution.
  Garden birds. Several Chickadees
coming to suet; a few House Sparrows
in clothes yard; nothing else noticed
until shortly after sunset when
a White-throated Sparrow chirped
for half a minute or more in
rhododendrons outside my study window.
  Devoted entire forenoon to making
out cheques for bills, afternoon to
working on bird notes & other M.S.
Judge Jenny read a paper on
Monhegan birds at Nuttall Club
meeting this evening. Only eight
members attended it - according to
Percy. I failed to do so because
worn out by two sleepless nights.