Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Mar. 1, 1918 [March 1, 1918] Wea [Weather]
Stormy
Another dreary and altogether
cheerless day, intensely chilly &
dark cloudy, with incessant
sleety rain falling on slushy
streets and sidewalks.
  Garden birds: None whatever
that attracted Percy's or my 
notice.
  Worked all day on a 
short passage for Umbagog
Introduction, which could
not be made to come right.
My eyes are behaving somewhat
better, my strength seems to
fail from day to-day. Nevertheless
I keep at my work without
discomfort now that all
out-door exercise has been 
discontinued, by Dr. Steven's
advice. C. [Caroline Brewster] keeps mostly to her 
chamber. E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] & I go there twice
or thrice daily, for half an hour
or so, to have books read aloud.

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Mar. 2, 1918 [March 2, 1918] Wea [Weather]
26 [degrees], 38 [degrees] Fine
Sunny, calm and rather mild.
A light powdering of snow falling
overnight whitened the ground
here and there this morning.
  Garden birds. Several, Crows
cawing loudly at sunrise, a 
Chickadee heard later in the day.
  My customary task engaged
most of my time & thought
during the entire forenoon &
part of the afternoon until
interrupted by Dick Dana [Richard Henry Dana Jr.]
who called at 3 P.M. &
stayed upwards of an hour.
He will start on a western
tour to-morrow, to be gone
a couple of weeks.
Our winter bulbs are doing well.
Paper whites began blooming at
Christmas, crocuses two or three
weeks ago, the first tulips, jonquils
& hyacinths within the past few days.