First heavy snowfall. Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Dec. 6, 1918 [December 6, 1918] Wea [Weather]
Stormy
Snow falling thick & fast at day break.
It then covered the ground to the depth
of 5 inches and by noon - when it
ceased coming - to upwards of 10 inches.
Clouds parted & sun shone out on a 
wintry landscape, in late P.M.
Rather many horse-drawn pungs &
other sleds to be seen passing our house.
recalling older times.
  Garden birds. None whatever noticed.
  A throat cold somewhat troublesome
yesterday became overpoweringly so
to-day confining me to the house
where I sat by an open wood fire
in the Den reading a little but
unable to do anything else.
Lizzy my companion at meals
& by the hall fire after supper where
we enjoyed a good chapter of David
Copperfield & a short call from
Lizzy Fuller. Little "Danny" also
with us very affectionate & winning as
he ever is on such occasions.

Cambridge. Mid-winter conditions
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Dec. 7, 1918 [December 7, 1918] Wea [Weather]
10 [degrees] Fair
Pale sunbeams shining feebly & fitfully
through a thin veil of clouds. Coldest
day of season thus far.
  Garden birds. Only a Crow, cawing
in the lindens.
  A second day of semi-illness passed
for the most part in solitude but by a 
bright wood fire in the den where I 
read as much as aching & weepy eyes
would permit. On the whole, however, the
cold in the head which is responsible 
for this confinement is by no means
an exceptionally bad one & seems
indeed to have already passed its worst
Dr. Stevens came to investigate it
this morning. He says it is of a type
very prevalent in Cambridge now & is
also the Spanish grippe which has 
returned of late but in milder form
than at first.
  Spent evening in hall with E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons]
who read to me from the Transcript &
"David Copperfield"