Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Jan. 22, 1918 [January 22, 1918] Wea [Weather]
12 [degrees],  28 [degrees] Dull.
  Dark cloudy with some trifling
snow fall in P.M. & evening
  Garden birds. 2 or 3 Chickadees
and a couple of Crows. I
failed to note anything else.
  Resumed work on Umbagog
Introduction this morning
and kept at it steadily all
day, despite eye trouble difficult
to disregard, Why this 
task should have become 
so impossible of satisfactory
advancement I fail to
comprehend. That I try 
too hard to achieve something
approximating literary perfection
is probable yet without such
a standard to bear ever in 
mind I should soon lose all
interest in the work

Cambridge
  Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Jan. 23, 1918 [January 23, 1918] Wea [Weather]
11 [degrees] 22 [degrees] "We Dine" at Spelmans. Fine
  Brilliantly clear with cold &
blustering N.W. [northwest] wind. Yesterday's
snow-fall added some two
inches to what had come &
remained unmelted before. Altogether
it is now perhaps 5 inches deep.
  Garden birds: 2 Chickadees, a 
[male] Flicker eating Parkman apples,
10 or 12 Starlings similarly
employed & a Crow perched
low in Jungle.
  Spent most of day in Museum
working on Umbagog M.S.
without much success.
  For first time this winter,
attended a "We Dine" - at Spelmans.
Everyone there except Barbour.
Rackerman photographed us by
electric light - very trying to eyes.
I read "Blameless Cat" story
- well received. Home by 11.15,
rather used up