Cambridge &
Boston
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Dec. 2, 1918 [December 2, 1918] Wea [Weather]
16 [degrees], 26 [degrees] Fair
Mostly sunny but partly cloudy:
Calm & frostily cold.
Ware Street birds. Crows & Jays reported 
by C. [Caroline Brewster] as appearing close about Ware Hall
of late. I saw a Downy Woodpecker there today.
To Boston at 10.30. Spent upwards
of 3 hours in our office. Howard K.
Brozon met me there by appointment
to get my signature to a release of a 
$5000 mortgage belonging to Geo. B. Kettell
Estate. A Savings Bank has taken it &
paid for it as full. Mr. B. advised
investing the money in U.S. short-time
notes to which I agreed. He says
about $500. Executor fee will have to be
paid Leverett Estate from Kettell Est.
He thinks Mr. Leverett would not have 
accepted it but his executors cannot decline
it. I told him I should not take my
fee amounting to about $250.
Lunched at Thompsons. Came out to Harvard
Square by 3.15 & called on C. at Ware Hall
4-5 P.M. Walked home from there
after dark.
  Annual Election of Officers at Nuttall Club
Meeting. All of past year rechosen. Large
attendance. I presided

Cambridge First snow-fall.
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Dec. 3, 1918 [December  3, 1918] Wea [Weather]
42 degrees max. Fair
Mild & windless with alternating clouds 
& sunshine. Under these conditions snow
an inch in depth, that had, fallen over night to
whiten the entire landscape this morning
was mostly gone by noon & quite so before
sunset.
  Garden birds. An unseen Chickadee, Gold-crest [Golden-crested Wren], Downy [Downy Woodpecker]
& several Crows heard, 10 House Sparrows
busily engaged with a pile of freshly dropped
horse manure in Sparks Street.
  At Nuttall Club meeting last night
Walter Deane reported seeing, I think
yesterday, no less than four different
Hairy Woodpeckers scattered singly among
trees in the Cambridge Botanic Gardens.
Pine Grosbeaks reported from various
localities including Arlington & Belmont.
An unusually large percentage of those seen
have been adult males.
  Spent most of day in Museum writing
letters. Voted in City election at 10 A.M.
& took E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] in Ford car to do so at 3 P.M.
She read to me as usual this eve.