Sharp diary 1917 page 240. Monday 20 August 1917 - Oneida
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Monday 20th of August 1917
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Started at 6.15 for the Hensleys only to find Mrs Hensley in bed — too ill to sing, alas! Our bad luck follows us! Her daughter Sophie Annie gave us what she could but it was nothing of any great value. We watched her sister do her Toilet & her hair, carefully adding a long spray of artificial stuff to the bun at the back. This cannot be said to be a primitive country! Miss Aldrich had tea with us. Did very little in the afternoon but took down a few songs from the students in the evening. This one of the hottest days we have had for some time and I have a very bad attack of asthma after dinner. Certainly not from indigestion as I only had a few crumbs of corn bread and a baked apple & water. We are being starved here. Miss Aldrich asked us to supper at 8 and we were glad of something to eat to enable us to sleep.Location
USA : Kentucky : Oneida [37.26712,-83.648971]
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