Cecil Sharp Diary 1918

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Thursday 12th of September 1918

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Have a very bad night, asthma etc and wake up feeling very seedy with bad neuralgia in my right eye. Still very cold indeed. Go out prospecting after first calling on Mrs Cheseborough whom we met 2 years ago at the Knoxville conference. She received us very cordially and asked us to lunch with her tomorrow at 12.30. Then we draw Bowley’s Creek but I am too tired to go far and beyond getting some clues we get nothing. After tea we move upstairs to two very pleasant rooms and then go up Mitchell Branch. Call on Mrs Hannah Mitchell who did sing but has forgotten her songs and then at her advice go on to her daughter Mrs Effie Mitchell from whom we get half a dozen rather good ones. After dinner when sitting on the verandah, Dr Patterson, prof[essor] of physics at N[orth] C[arolina] University introduces me and asks me to come & talk with the Governor of N[orth] C[arolina] — Mr J. W. Bickett, who had a copy of my Putnam book and showed a good deal of interest in my work. Sat talking with him & Patterson — who is in attendance upon him — till bed- time. Find them both very interesting. Go to bed with a very bad headache & feeling woefully seedy. A heavy thunderstorm in the evening.

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USA : North Carolina : Burnsville [35.9173357,-82.300961]

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