Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Jan. 30, 1918 [January 30, 1918] Wea [Weather]
10 [degrees], 20 [degrees] Dull.
A sunless, windless and
intensely chilly day not
unlike many another experienced
of late. Ground now buried
beneath 7 or 8 inches of snow
rather more than half of which
came night before last.
  Garden birds. 2 Chickadees at
suet; a distant - cawing Crow &
nearby -  screaming Jay; 3 House
Sparrows in clothes yard, the
first seen anywhere hereabouts
for upwards of two weeks.
  Worked all day on Umbagog
Introduction composing for it 
a few lines relating to
books written by Samuels &
"Captain" Farrar [Charles A. J. Farrar].

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Jan. 31, 1918 [January 31, 1918] Wea [Weather]
3 [degrees], 20 [degrees] Dull.
Thin cloudy (with some sunshine
in late P.M.), calm, cold &
very chilly.
  Garden birds: Only 2 or 3
dejected looking House Sparrows.
  Spent day in Museum
but wrote only a few letters
Eyes very troublesome &
apparently getting worse
steadily. None of my
spectacles or other glasses are
any longer of much use.
Hence the brevity of this 
diary entry.
  Evening in hall with C. [Caroline Brewster], E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] &
the two dogs. Victrola music &
reading aloud from R.H. Davis book.
  Miss Henders still in Boston
but expected to return soon.