Sharp diary 1918 page 13. Thursday 10 January 1918 - Chicago
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Thursday 10th of January 1918
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Directly after breakfast we made another effort to get to the Newbury Library & this time succeeded. It is a good library with an attentive librarian — an obvious German by name Teyn, pronounced, he said, like Newcastle on Tyne with which place he feigned connection. Could get no 18-cent[ury] dance-books; I doubt if they are to be found in America. It is extraordinary what little interest there is in matters of this sort in this country. In certain subjects libraries well stocked but in any matter of artistic interest they are sadly wanting. The music library of the Public Library in Chicago is about what a good girl’s school in England might have. However I copied several tunes mostly from Neils Gow and Petrie.1 We lunched at the "North American", a typical Chicago Restaurant with an ice rink in the middle of it so that trick skaters and other vaudeville artists may perform and amuse the diners. Got back about 3.30. Mrs Moore telephoned to say that the Normal School people had decided to engage me. This is a great relief as this with the Rockford lecture will pretty nearly pay my expenses here. In the afternoon and evening I began experimenting on the harmonization of the tunes I copied at the library doing about 7 of them before bed-time. I also dictated a careful letter to Miss Beiderhaze about the N[ew] Y[ork] Center’s classes. It is clear we are in for trouble there and the matter will need careful handling. I began a letter to Miss Gilman but did not finish it. More snow followed by zero weather is the forecast, but so far the snow has not arrived. Fairly cold — about 15.Location
USA : Illinois : Chicago [41.8781136,-87.6297982]
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