Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Nov. 28, 1918 [November 28, 1918] Wea [Weather]
Fair
A calm, sunny, frosty morning, clouds
gathering & east wind rising by noon.
Afternoon dark cloudy & chilly but not cold.
  Garden birds. Entering the Jungle at 9 A.M.
I found assembled there hopping about on ground
or flitting from twig to twig within a yard of it,
a Hermit Thrush, 4 Chickadees, 2 Tree Sparrows
& a [female] Junco. All these kept on together ahead of
me into Birch Grove & Grape Arbor. Tree Sparrows 
very tame & confiding. Hermit & Junco birds less so.
  There were also within our ground then
or a little later a House Sparrow, a Jay,
2 Crows, & a Downy Woodpecker. I have
not seen so many birds here before for a week or more.
  Wrote a few letters after breakfast & then
called on the Spelman's finding most of them
in backyard engrossed in newly acquired hens,
which showed some concerns when a big sea plane
soared Hawk-like, with loud throbbing engines,
board high overhead.
Lizzy [Elizabeth R. Simmons] & I had as dinner guests Miss Ireland,
Mrs. Cobb, Mrs. Mansfield, Miss Balch, & a Miss
Katherine Tren Rolme from Montreal. They all
departed at 4 after which I wrote more letters.
C. [Caroline Brewster] dined in her rooms at Ware Hall with
Miss Swazey. E.S.R. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read to me as usual
after supper.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Nov. 29, 1918 [November 29, 1918] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear, calm, comparatively mild. Light
rain last night. City lawns everywhere as
green as in early in early autumn.
  Garden birds - Handsome adult [male] White throat
Sparrow [White-throated Sparrow] in lilacs, afterwards singing a little 
faintly in view within a yard of my Mus.
study window. White-bellied Nuthatch, [male], qt
first in seckle pear tree, later in willows
by Mus. gate; one House Sparrow, a
Downy Woodpecker (in lilacs), a Flicker.
  Working on the letters all day.
Several required answering at some
length. Hence my progress with them
was not great.
F.H. Allen called at 12.30 to look
over my series of Helminthophila pinus
more especially to see if any have yellow
wings bars, as several have. One so marked
were seen by him, Townsend & others in
W. Roxbury [West Roxbury] late May & June. He lunched
with us & departed soon afterwards.
Dr. Stevens came at 6 P.M. to strap up my
left side with Belladonna plaster. It has been
very painful to-day. Usual eve. reading.