Sharp diary 1918 page 191. Sunday 7 July 1918 - New York
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Sunday 7th of July 1918
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I breakfasted at 9, Maud much later. Wrote a long letter to Lily and then practised some morris steps with Maud — Old Molly Oxford, Shepherd’s Hey etc. Then wrote to Gallagher, read the papers and lazed generally till lunch time. After tea & rest we went to the Metropolitan Museum in a 5th Ave[nue]. Bus — an infernal contraption! — and spent 1_ h[ours] there with great pleasure looking first at the Rodin’s a marvellous collection of beautiful forms amongst which Adam perhaps stood out as the greatest. Then we examined the musical instruments and I found one which seems to me to throw great light on the Appalachian "Dulcimer" in a German primitive 18th cent[ury] zither. It is almost exactly like the mountain instrument except that 2 of its 3 strings are fretted and the third a drone. We walked back and thus escaped a return journey in the bus! We dined at Arthur’s restaurant, rather expensive and not over nice. Went to bed pretty early after I had harmonized Molly Oxford for use tomorrow at the School. A quiet day spent entirely to ourselves & perhaps the more restful on that account.Location
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