Cecil Sharp Diary 1918

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Wednesday 22nd of May 1918

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Breakfast at 6.30 -7 and then wrote up in my books the tunes I got yesterday — in fact a very fine lot. Then we go out on the hunt and call at the Small’s first where we get a splendid bunch including one or two well above the average. A Miss Small — now Lola Harris accompanies us to another woman, Mrs Willy Roberts, about 2 miles away — one of the hottest walks I have ever essayed! There we got a really beautiful version of The Cruel Mother and others. By lunch time we had walked for some 4 or 5 hours and got together 8 or 9 splendid songs. A Presbyterian Minister was at lunch much to the enjoyment of Miss Gardelow, sister of Mrs Godwin who lives here and shares with the latter the onus of the housekeeping. The Godwins are well to do farmers, by no means lacking in refinement or education, rather clever, but very simple and in many ways unsophisticated. After tea we went to see an old Coloured woman, Aunt Maria Tomes who sang us one good tune. She was a slave woman and was born 80 years ago — rather a nice old lady. She smoked a pipe. Weather very hot to day — really a July rather than a May day. Everyone predicts rain, but so far it has held off.

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USA : Viginia : Nellysford [0,0]

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