Sharp diary 1917 page 231. Saturday 11 August 1917 - Manchester
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Saturday 11th of August 1917
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Wake at 6 after a very bad night. Cold mist etc much worse than previous night. I wake at 3 sneezing and wheezing. Burn powder but cannot get properly to sleep again. Am cold even under my three layers of bedding. After breakfast we sally forth to go up Little Goose Creek after Finlay but start wrongly directed and are wrongly directed all day and though we call at several places get no songs, nor singers and never get nearer than a mile and a half to Finlay’s house. Weather very hot, roads very rough, and I sneeze and run at the nose and wheeze with asthma every yard of the 7 or 8 miles we cover! Return at 3, get some milk and then sleep. After tea to druggist to get remedies. Square in front of Hotel crowded with lorries, men on horse & mule back and women & children from surrounding creeks. Am feeling very seedy and a little feverish. Evident the cold nights here don’t agree with me.Location
USA : Kentucky : Manchester [37.1537007,-83.7618641]
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