Cecil Sharp Diary 1918

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Saturday 3rd of August 1918

Transcription Notes

Directly after breakfast we take our lunch and sally forth up Porter’s Mountain in search of Mrs Lawson Grey & old Manimie Gross. Soon after we had started we met Mrs Lawson Grey in a wagon coming in to shop but we promised to look in on her on our return journey. It was a long, hot climb up the mountain to Mrs Gross’s and, as bad luck would have it, we found the old lady — who is 89 — in a great fluster preparing to receive a preacher to dinner. She would scarcely talk to us so we had to leave almost as soon as we had arrived. The fates are certainly against us this trip, all three of our singers, Mrs Grey, Mrs Donald & Mrs Gross having for different reasons, failed us. We got a few songs from Mrs Rhoda Grey and her cousin a Mrs Grass[?] — Max Grass’s wife — but Mrs Grey sang us nothing so we returned again with practically empty note-books! Another hot evening on the porch — indeed hotter than last night. I am feeling very gouty indeed and my right eye has been threatening for several days.1

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USA : Viginia : Montvale [0,0]

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