Cecil Sharp Diary 1918

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Document date

Saturday 12th of January 1918

Transcription Notes

Snow continued all night and it was still snowing when I got up this morning. Maud was seedy so I had breakfast by myself sending her up a tray. A very uneventful day. No one called and it was impossible to go out so I slogged away at my tunes beginning a final revision and actually finishing off about a dozen of them — pretty well record time! I made tea for Maud in the afternoon. She got up for dinner in the evening. The roads are absolutely impassable. 6 inches more snow makes the depth of snow now on the ground up to 12 feet! They are calling for general help and all and sundry are agonising about "community" partners[?] (how they love that word "community" — probably to emphasise their dislike of the social state it connotes!) and the newspapers are full of pictures of society women in nicely arranged "disarranged" costume standing in picturesque attitudes with shawls in their hands or over their shoulders in the snow! None of the railroads are running not even the local C.I. into town and we are cut off from everything. No mails have reached us since yesterday morning and we are threatened with a milk and coal famine.

Location

USA : Illinois : Chicago [41.8781136,-87.6297982]

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