Sharp diary 1918 page 120. Saturday 27 April 1918 - Afton
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Saturday 27th of April 1918
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Directly after breakfast we walked up the mountain to the Royal Orchard to see Mrs Fitzgerald and her husband and make arrangements for the dance this evening. Settled to have the dance at his house if Mr White made no objection. Saw the latter who seemed quite converted after my last talk and argument with him — indeed he bombarded me with my own arguments quite believing them to be his own! Maud met Mr Fitzgerald later and he had then decided to have the dance down here at Miss Joy’s cottage. In the afternoon Mr Corbett motored us to Mrs MacDonald’s cottage where we met Mrs Venn & sister in law. All these promised to come to the dance and bring men. To facilitate their coming we motored Mrs Venn & sister to their home about 2 miles away. Then called on Mrs Hidden, cousin of Hidden Page, and had a nice talk with her. The dance was very amusing. The Fitzgeralds drove down with the whole of their family including the month-old baby. Although her baby only a month old Mrs Fitzgerald danced with great vigour and agility! The Venn pair never turned up but Mrs MacDonald did. We managed to make an eight, Mr F[itzgerald] fiddling, Maud and I and Mrs Corbett dancing while Mr Truslow led and "called". I noted the dance which was a rather tame & somewhat sophisticated version of the Kentucky Running Set. Quite interesting with several nice technical points. It was nice of Mrs Joy to lend us her room for it kept the thing quiet & decent. Left off about 11 p.m. beginning between 9 and 9.30.Location
USA : Viginia : Afton [0,0]
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