Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Feb. 27, 1918 [February 27, 1918] Wea [Weather]
24 [degrees] min
Sunny, calm, frost but not chilly.
  Garden birds. Only a Flicker
seen by Percy.
  Worked on Umbagog Introduction
in forenoon. I am now trying
to assemble and connect a lot
of more or less unrelated matter
composed at various times. It
is a difficult task at which I
can make only slow progress.
  Zeph Prosser came from Concord at
3 P.M. to report on his wood chopping
at Holden's HIll. Thus far has
cut 30 1/2 cords there. I have paid
him for 22 of them. He will 
now cut oak @ 3.00 cord, at
Davis Hill.
  Dr. Stevens came a 5 P.M He
advises me to give up all out-door
exercise for the present .
  C. [Caroline Brewster] went to town at 10 A.M. to 
see Dr. Cheeny [Cheeney] & Dr. Williams in
consultation. They agreed that her
right eye need not be operated on at present

This decision is great relief to both her & me.

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Feb. 28, 1918 [February 28, 1918] Wea [Weather]
38 [degrees] max Stormy.
   Dark cloudy & very chilly
with incessant steady rain after
3 P.M.
  Garden Birds. 4 Crows cawing
lustily and circling low but
not alighting.
  Worked on Umbagog M.S. in
forenoon, rewriting a page of
Introduction.
  Judge Abbott came out
at 3 P.M. to stay until 5.
 He was most entertaining & 
I enjoyed talking with him
exceedingly. I suggested the
appropriation of some more money
from our Public School Fund
to improve playgrounds etc. at
Wolfeboro & Tuftonboro. He thought
$600 or 700 could be used to 
good advantage & promised to send
me a statement regarding expenditure
of last allotment for same purpose.
Mr. Winterbottom, Salvation Army,
called later. I greatly liked him.