Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Feb. 23, 1918 [February 23, 1918]  Wea [Weather]
2 [degrees], 30 [degrees] Fine
Clear & cold but almost windless.
Everything whitened by an 
inch or snow of fine, dry snow
that came yesterday afternoon
& evening.
  Garden birds: Chickadee heard,
Crows [heard]. Latter met with in
great numbers in & about Rock M. [Rock Meadow],
Belmont, yesterday, by H. M.
Spelman who thinks he must
have seen 250 birds in all.
I should like to know what
so many can find to eat there.
   A rather unproductive day. Read
through most of Umbagog M.S [manuscript]
for Preface & Introduction. It
evidently needs much further
revision & a lot of superfluous
matter should be eliminated.
  Wrote letters in P.M.
  C. [Caroline Brewster] went in town to see Dr, Cheeney &
we all spent evening in her room
E [Elizabeth R. Simmons] reading "Typee"

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Feb. 24, 1918 [February 24, 1918] Wea [Weather]
42 [degrees] max Fine
Clear & calm & springlike.
 Recent falling snow all gone or
nearly so.
  Garden birds, Northern Shrike
singing in Jungle at 9.30 A.M.
He uttered only two or three notes,
all soft & pleasing, one repeated
many times oftener than any of the
rest. His presence in this neighborhood
may perhaps have something to
do with the long-continued & 
almost total absence of House
Sparrows but from what I 
can learn these birds have
disappeared similarly from most,
if not all, other parts of
Cambridge during the past
month or two.
  Writing letters all forenoon &
late afternoon. C. [Caroline Brewster] went in
town to Church. We had served at
dinner the very last Concord Turkey
& to help eat it the Spelmans & 
Miss Allyn. They departed at 4 PM

C. had a poor-feeling day but we all sat with her in
her chamber this evening.