Sharp diary 1917 page 233. Monday 13 August 1917 - Manchester
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Monday 13th of August 1917
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After breakfast, weather being very hot decide not to go out and stay at home and write letters to Grove, Tet etc. Maud goes prospecting up Beach Creek but returns at 12.30 empty handed with poor report as to the people. They are evidently sophisticated here and are rapidly giving up the singing of folk songs although the country is extremely primitive. I am afraid we shan’t get much here. After tea we go along goose creek, call on Mrs Samples again and make friends with her mother Mrs Ellen Jones. These are real nice people but being "holiness" converts refuse to sing love songs. Tell us however of Mrs Polly Patrick a widow said to sing, and Mrs Cis Jones, Mrs Ellen’s mother. Decide to follow them up tomorrow.Location
USA : Kentucky : Manchester [37.1537007,-83.7618641]
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