Cecil Sharp Diary 1917

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Thursday 11th of October 1917

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Wake up with a headache chiefly owing to this damnable arrangement of steam heating. My radiator cannot be turned off — here like everywhere else, all things are going to rack & ruin and inefficiency reigns supreme — and nothing I can do or say will prevail upon anyone to get it mended. Have a very quiet day. Write letters all the morning, Bradley, Lanier etc and in the afternoon and evening also, Charlie, Gray, Peggy Scovill, Mrs Storrow etc. Go out in the afternoon for an hour or two, have a curious interview with Hammond a friend of Revd Patterson of Beattyville. After dinner more letters then finding my room unbearable get another one to sleep in. Headache better but expect I shall get it bad again through sleeping in such a heat.

Location

USA : Kentucky : Jackson [37.5531457,-83.3835135]

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