Sharp diary 1918 page 168. Friday 14 June 1918 - Natural Bridge
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Friday 14th of June 1918
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Mrs Massie tells me I may use the piano in the ball room which is nice & quiet, secluded & cool. So I go there in the morning and harmonize the Nightingale or rather revise what I did at Boston. In the afternoon I tackle the Cruel Mother and begin making fair copies of these in the afternoon. The weather is very hot and I am getting a lot of hay fever and asthma. I had a very bad night last night from asthma and have had it more or less all day. This place is evidently a bad one for us as besides asthma I am very rheumatic. Perhaps it is the water which is full of sulphur & other minerals. The sailor boy’s playing gets worse & worse and is maddening. I never heard anybody make so much noise on a piano — a veritable restless clatter — and as he plays in a large empty room with windows & doors wide open the sound carries everywhere. The curious thing is that no one seems to object at all except ourselves — one of the most wonderful instances I have met of American docility — or is it insensitiveness?Location
USA : Viginia : Natural Bridge [0,0]
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