Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Mar. 3, 1918 [March 3, 1918] Wea [Weather]
24 [degrees], 32 [degrees] Fine
Bright sunshine, frostily cool
temperature and boisterous N.W. [northwest]
wind combined to make a typical
March day of a no means wholly
displeasing kind.
  Miss Nathurst is said to have
picked two snow-drop blossoms
in Denman Ross's grounds within
the past few days but none have
as yet appeared in ours.
  Garden birds. 2 or 3 Crows
cawing in early morning.
  My forenoon and late afternoon
was devoted to writing letters.
I also looked over some Umbagog
manuscript. C. [Caroline Brewster] went in town
to church with Lizzy Fuller.
She spent most of evening in lower
hall but did not come down to 
dinner at which our only guests
were Charlie & Mrs. Lamb. They stayed 
until 4 P.M.

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Mar. 4, 1918 [March 4, 1918] Wea [Weather]
15 [degrees], 24 [degrees] Fine
Cloudless, windless & cold but
  without penetrating chill.
Garden birds: 2 Chickadees &
3 Blue Jays in the lilacs;
5 Crows perched high above 
ground in the lindens, cawing
vociferously.
  Worked all day on Umbagog
Introduction, trying in vain
to piece together in some
effective order a lot of matter
that defies such arrangement
although in itself by no means
ill composed.
  After repeated urging the
Wellington & Buck people
have at length sent us
a ton & a half of range
coal. This we have been
short of for several weeks during
which Percy has been using furnace
coal instead, breaking it with a hammer.
C. [Caroline Brewster], E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] & I passed a pleasant evening 
in lower hall, with Victrola music & reading 
aloud.