Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Feb. 15, 1918 [February 15, 1918] Wea [Weather]
52 [degrees] max [maximum] Dull
Early morning rainy. Rest of day
overcast & very warm for season.
Snow almost wholly gone and ground 
bare in places but mostly encased
in ice that froze six weeks or more 
ago. Frost in city streets said to
extend down six feet. Many catch
basins continue frozen thereby
flooding streets & sidewalks. Letter box
at foot of Sparks Street surrounded by
water & visited by no one for
several days past.
  Garden birds. Not one seen or
heard. No House Sparrows since
Feb. 8 [February 8, 1918]  and only two or three since
Jan. 13 [January 13, 1918]. Charley Walcott tells me
he finds almost none elsewhere
in City. I am beginning to think
that nearly all must have perished 
of cold or hunger early in the winter.
  Worked on Umbagog M.S. [manuscript] in forenoon
Violent attack of nausea just before
luncheon. Short walk after it.
Slept most of afternoon.

Cambridge.02-16
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Feb. 16, 1918 [February 16, 1918] Wea [Weather]
18 [degrees] Dull
A gray day uncomfortably chilly
but almost windless. Everything
out of doors frozen stiff again.
I noticed yesterday for the
first time that Squills just
beneath a front window of our
house have already thrust
sharp pointed green shoots above
the surface [of] the ground.
  Garden birds - None whatever.
  A mostly unproductive day
spent in Museum, pottering over
Umbagog & other manuscript
Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert], who went to Concord in
afternoon, brings word from
Burbank that the small cabin,
last built at Ball's Hill, has
just been moved successfully
to the Farm and that Zeph
has already cut 25 cords of
oak at Holden's Hill