Cecil Sharp Diary 1918

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Document date

Thursday 13th of June 1918

Transcription Notes

After breakfast wrote a lot of letters including one to Constance, and more or less in the course of the morning cleared off arrears of correspondence. Didn’t sleep very well because the piano went on hard until 10.30 or so and after that we were kept awake by the loud voices of girls talking in our corridor. There are two young sailors here one of whom plays the piano — rag-time of course — incessantly and nearly drives me mad. As the piano is in easy ear-shot of our room, and in addition there is a gas-engine which grinds out the electric light just under our window, we soon see no chance of the peace & rest for which we have come here. So we see the manager and change our rooms to another wing away from the engine and more or less removed from the piano. The latter however makes it almost impossible to sit on the verandah after dinner. I begin to understand the necessity of the iron rules about talking etc in force at Grove Park Inn. People here have no idea of behaving in public places decently and with consideration for others.

Location

USA : Viginia : Natural Bridge [0,0]

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