Sharp diary 1918 page 136. Monday 13 May 1918 - Washington
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Monday 13th of May 1918
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Breakfasted at the hotel at an enormous price — 2 dollars for toast, marmalade & tea! Profiteering is rampant in this country, and quite shamelessly! Telephoned to Bradley and arranged to lunch with him. Wrote several letters, Peabody, Bank, Peggy Scovill etc and sent lists of copies of my book to be sent to friends here & in England etc. After tea wrote more letters and read Shane Leslie’s book — The End of a Chapter — which I found very good and brilliantly written. Yet it seems only the other day when I taught him & his brother the piano at Ludgrove.1 I am not feeling at all well this morning — evidently gout — my eye is bad too, ulcerated slightly. Had dinner at a small restaurant with Bradley who came back to our rooms. I showed him the songs we had collected in Virginia and sang several of them to him and he appeared very interested. He left at 9 when I wrote a longish letter to Fox Strangways, sending him some of my latest tunes. Weather still very warm with heavy thunder & showers in the afternoon.Location
USA : Washington DC [38.8951118,-77.0363658]
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