Sharp diary 1918 page 107. Sunday 14 April 1918 - Washington
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Sunday 14th of April 1918
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Breakfast — very nasty — at 8.30. Aldrich telephoned and arranged to call for me at 12.30 & take me home to lunch. Also telephoned to Alphonso Smith & promised to call on him in the afternoon. Then wrote long letter to Mr Oppe, by which time Aldrich made his appearance resplendent in tight fitting wasp-waisted Captain’s uniform and trolleyed with me to the outskirts of W[ashington]. We passed the English Embassy which gave me a thrill and saw something of the lay-out of the City which is spacious, open, well-built with many open spaces and fine & dignified in appearance. Had a nice quiet meal & talk with Mr & Mrs A[ldrich]. Then trolleyed down to N[ew] York Avenue met Bradley & Maud and we all went to Annapolis Naval Academy to call on the Alphonso Smiths. He took us over the Academy a very fine place and we discussed many things. We had supper after which M[aud] & I sang them several ballads. Made an attempt to get the 9.20 trolley back and found it had been taken off so we had to wait for the next which landed us back in Washington at 12.30 — a very slow and wearisome journey. We were all pretty tired when we got back and I had a pretty bad neuralgic headache!Location
USA : Washington DC [38.8951118,-77.0363658]
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