Sharp diary 1918 page 224. Friday 9 August 1918 -
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Friday 9th of August 1918
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In the morning a very interesting Episcopal parson Revd Dr Bryan of Petersburg introduced himself to me. He sang me an old song of his father’s and strongly advised me to go to Rockymount — the very place we were bound for — and to make friends with Revd Roberts, the Episcopal priest there, who runs a mission School, S[t] Peters, in the mountains. We leave at 10, catch the 11.34 and arrive and lunch at Roanoke Hotel at 1. I find my trunk which has been showing signals of distress for some time has now succumbed to the attentions of the railroad porters. So very reluctantly I have to purchase a new wardrobe trunk in Roanoke and carry it off with me by the afternoon train to Rockymount where we arrive about 6.30 and find quite a nice hotel. Weather hotter than ever however. After dinner call on Roberts to find he is away very ill — a nervous breakdown — Mrs Roberts however sees us and advises us to communicate with Miss Davis who runs the mission in the morning. We go to bed fearing the worst as no air is moving and thermometer at 86!
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