Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Jan. 28, 1918 [January 28, 1918] Wea [Weather]
2 [degrees], 10 [degrees] Dull
A very dreary winter day,
dark cloudy and intensely
chilly, as well as cold, with
snow flakes falling every now
and then - to no more than
whiten clean-swept walks, however.
  Garden birds. Altogether
absent, apparently, for not
one was either seen or heard
by me.
  I worked all day on Umbagog
manuscript, finishing a brief
account of David Robbin's
extraordinary career and
beginning one relating to
E.A. Samuels's [Edward A. Samuels] field experience
at the lake, which was not
quite completed.
  The morning's mail brought me 
a delightful letter from my
old-time friend, Herbert Gardner
of whom we have heard nothing for
twenty or more years.

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Jan. 29, 1918 [January 29, 1918] Wea [Weather]
10 [degrees], 26 [degrees] Fine
Early morning cloudy. After that
glad sunshine streaming down
through windless & only moderately
frosty air.
  Garden birds. 4 Chickadees in lilacs;
4 Starlings eating P. [Parkman] apples; a
Jay screaming in Jungle.
  My forenoon devoted to 
writing letters. Miss Holman
& Miss Harkness with us
at luncheon. Miss Henders
left shortly after it, because
of illness said to be an oncoming
cold. Fortunately C. [Caroline Brewster] is better able
to get along without her now
than she would have been
earlier in the winter.
  She spent her morning with
us & the dogs by a blazing
wood fire in the lower hall
where I played Victrola music
and E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read Richard Harding
Davis's delightful "Life & Letters"