Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Feb. 25, 1918 [February 25, 1918] Wea [Weather]
50 [degrees] max [maximum] Fine
Clear, calm & very mild. Altogether
even more spring-like than
yesterday.
  Garden birds. A Chickadee
giving its Phoebee [Phoebe] call in the
lilacs at 9 A.M. and a
Northern Shrike, no doubt the
self-same bird here yesterday,
which Percy Harris seeing &
hearing early this morning, as
it sat perched in an elm
over our lawn, singing freely.
  Spent most of day in
Museum, working on Umbagog
M.S. [manuscript] and recopying some of
it composed earlier in the winter.
C. [Caroline Brewster] kept to her room & had
by all accounts a very wretched
day - as seems to happen often
just after a visit to her occulist.
  I walked up Brattle St to
Fayerweather after sunset, returning
much exhausted & also affected by nausea.

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Feb. 26, 1918 [February 26, 1918] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Because of warm rain & southerly
wind continuing last night there
was little snow or ice to be
seen anywhere this morning.
The skies cleared by 9 A.M., after
which we had a sunny but
March-like day made so by
harsh N.W. [northwest] wind & falling
temperature.
  Garden birds: Two Jays in
lilacs, several Crows on wing
overheard.
  My day devoted to writing letters
& composing Umbagog M.S. [manuscript]
which Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] copied.
  Discouraged by yesterday's
experience with up-street
exercise I attempted nothing
of the kind to-day.