Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Nov. 20, 1918 [November 20, 1918] Wea [Weather]
Dull.
Dark cloudy, calm, mild but chilly,
with a little fine, mist-like rain.
  In Garden: 2 Chickadees, 2 Jays,
a Downy Woodpecker (heard), Crow (heard),
15 Gulls flying over high towards
Fresh Pond.
  Spent day in Museum, hoping to
write letters but constantly interrupted.
First came Percy, brought by Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert],
after absence of a whole week, because of
rather serious injury to a foot, by stepping
into an unseen hole. He was soon
followed by John Lawrence with a 
truck load of apples (135 bushels) and
potatoes (15 bushels) from the Farm.
Then came John Sheehan & another to
unload all this produce. Dr. Stevens
called at 11 to advise me concerning a
rheumatic trouble. Burnham came in
P.M. & paid me $30. for 7 1/2 bu. [bushels] Wealthys.
  At "We Dine" at Walter Deane's 7-11 P.M.
Everyone there save Barbour (in Cuba) &
Goodale (laid up by a cold). Harry Spelman's
son Harry brought Austrian war trophies to show.

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Nov. 21 [November 21, 1918] Wea [Weather]
Dull.
Dark cloudy and very chilly, but not
frosty, with a little fine rain.
  2 Crows in the lindens at breakfast
time were the only birds I noticed 
all day.
  The writing of several letters &
a lot of cheques for bills kept me
busy in the Museum from 9 A.M.
to 6 P.M. save for the noon hour
at luncheon etc. The evening was
passed in the hall with E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons]
who read to me from David Copperfield
the entertaining chapter wherein
he is rescued from the Murdstones
by Betsy Trottwood [Betsey Trotwood] & adopted by
the latter. Strange to say I am
now for the first time introduced to
this admirable story. How it could [have]
altogether eluded me in long past
years when I read & reread most of
the other books that Dickens wrote is
difficult to comprehend. -