Cecil Sharp Diary 1918

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Document date

Sunday 19th of May 1918

Transcription Notes

After breakfast set to work to clear off correspondence. Wrote letters to Mrs Aldrich, Ditsons (copy to Henry White) Tet Miss Gilchrist, Butterworth, Geographical Soc[iety] (sub[scription] for Reuben Hensley) Mrs Luigi Zande, Miss Wells, & John Glenn. After tea we went over to the station checked our baggage and waited for the 5.15, which eventually puffed into the station at 6.15 and arrived at Afton rather more than an hour late. Corbett met us and drove us to his house where we were made very comfortable. His brother — the real estate man in Charlottesville was staying week-end. I like him but prefer Guy. The brother is sharper and shrewder and more the man of the world. They were all interested listening to the account of our doings in Washington and we had many a laugh over Mrs Aldrich’s telephone messages to Mrs Corbett concerning the mythical Mrs F. W. Scott. I am feeling very seedy and down on my luck. That attack I had at Washington seems to have sapped all my vitality. I expect however when I get out into the country I shall buck up again. I think Charlottesville is a thoroughly unhealthy place. In the morning Johnson, Dr Lewis & Bowling — all professors from the University — called and Lewis gave me a nigger chantey.

Location

USA : Virginia : Charlottesville [38.0293059,-78.4766781]

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