— Buena Vista
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Document date
Monday 29th of April 1918
Transcription Notes
Began preparations for our departure directly after breakfast, checking trunks, telephoning for motor etc. Mrs Corbett looked in at 11 and brought me a letter from Mr Aldrich. We left at 12, motoring to Basic City and then to Buena Vista taking our cheese & biscuits with us for lunch. We arrived at 2.30 and after some hesitation — there are 3 hotels here — we selected the Hotel Mailbrook, quite the ugliest front I have ever seen on any building. Our rooms are passable, but grubby and in ill-repair after the manner of the South. After a rest and some tea we sallied forth to look around. Got into conversation with a Mrs Henson who had known the songs and probably knows them still if we could persuade her to "bide and steed". She sent us on to some people of the name of Campbell from whom we picked up some cues[?] which will be worth investigating tomorrow. In the evening wrote up my tunes and letters to Mr Aldrich & Glenn. This place is a quiet little railway town surrounded by wooded mountains, very pretty, but horribly untidy. There is absolutely no civic pride in the South. Weather very hot and sultry and we find it very trying after the cold of last week.Location
USA : Viginia : Afton [0,0]
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