Sharp diary 1918 page 18. Tuesday 15 January 1918 - Chicago
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Tuesday 15th of January 1918
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After breakfast we looked through our gatherings of last year and made a rough list of the new songs and ballads, i.e. those that we had not got in any form in the previous year. Then Maud having received a letter from Detroit we shaped a campaign there and I dictated some letters to her and she began to make out some letters herself to send to the various schools and societies. In the meanwhile I began to harmonize Shelton’s version of the Cruel Mother — a very fine tune but a difficult one to handle. I kept at this pretty well all day and in the evening went round to the Foss’s to dinner. Rather a dull evening though Mrs Foss and the family are nice enough. Rex Reeve a young man — too smug to smoke or drink or do anything that a healthy young man should do, in the common American manner — came in to rehearse with Maud Charlotte and I some C[ountry] Dance fours for tomorrow evening. Coming back we had to wait for some time to catch a trolley which in this city run just as they please — a terribly cold business.Location
USA : Illinois : Chicago [41.8781136,-87.6297982]
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