Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Nov. 22, 1918 [November 22, 1918] Wea [Weather]
Fair
Forenoon sunny with crisp, dry
air and little or no wind.  Afternoon
mostly cloudy & very chilly. No frost
whatever since Friday late.
  Garden birds. Only chickadees & crows
(both heard).
Spent entire day in museum
writing letters, cheques for bills, etc.
John Lawrence brought a load of
birch wood from Concord. Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert]
motored there this morning to 
make bank deposit, get aquarium
supplies in Lawrence's pond etc.
E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] gone to the Bee this evening	
so I have supped alone & am
now settling down to read
Herrick's Audubon for an hour
or two.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Nov. 23, 1918 [November 23, 1918] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Brilliantly clear with strong, cold
northerly wind.
  Garden birds - a chickadee & Blue Jay
in thicket close beside my study window,
a Hairy Woodpecker [male] in the Birch Grove.
The thicket is less attractive to birds than
formerly for all but one of its component
rhododendrons have died and the deadly
night shade vines that overrun it so
profusely bear no fruit this year. Hence
it affords neither the shelter nor food
that it once did.
  Spent day in museum writing a few 
letters despite rather serious eye strain
increasingly troublesome of late. It 
forced me to quit both writing &
reading in the afternoon when I first
rearranged my desk and then went
to call on Walter Deane who showed
me an oil painting of himself just
finished by some young artist. It is an
excellent piece of work as regards technique
but not a very good likeness.