Sharp diary 1918 page 144. Tuesday 21 May 1918 - Nellysford, Virginia
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Tuesday 21st of May 1918
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A very hot day with thunder about. Began to rain about 1 o’clock and rained quietly at intervals the rest of the day. Wrote a lot of letters in the morning to Bradley, Bispham, Schirmer, Mattie Lindo etc. Called on some so-called singers but found them out. After early lunched trudged off by myself — Maud was seedy — in the rain to Jim Chisholm. Found him at home as he promised and he and his wife sang me some rather nice songs including the Lark in the Morn which I had not hitherto got here before two very interesting tunes to Cruel Mother & Sweet William and a fine tune to the Soldier Boy — not a bad lot considering that he is an instrumentalist rather than a singer. He plays the organ, fiddle & guitar while his daughter also plays the last. I played some tunes on the organ which they liked very much. Altogether quite a pleasant afternoon. Called on Mrs Berry on my return. The walk very hot, rather wet & extremely tiring. Got back about 7 p.m. We shall probably stay here another day though we do not expect to get much more here. But the food is very good — lots of milk — and we are comfortable and as neither of us is overfit we feel we ought to postpone for one day a change for the worse.Location
USA : Viginia : Nellysford [0,0]
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