Cecil Sharp Diary 1918

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Thursday 7th of November 1918

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Again a very bad night though I did get some sleep towards the morning. Still, I feel a bit better and hope that the worst is over. I am taking quinine but nothing else. Maud left at 10.45 to go to see Lily & say good bye to her. I went out and called on Hartmann and found him a very interesting man. He entertained me at lunch at the City Club and we smoked our pipes & talked till 2 p.m. afterwards. About 1 o’clock the news that the Germans had signed the Armistice reached Boston. The bells were rung, everyone crowded into the streets and there was the wildest and most unrestrained jubilation. While I was lying down and trying to realize that the 4_ years of terror had come to a glorious end Maud came back from Lincoln with the news that the whole thing was a hoax, perpetrated probably by some stock exchange people! Packed and worked at my photographs until Mrs Gibbs came in to tea. Coomaraswamy dined with us and we discussed India, art & politics generally until a late hour. He is Curator at the Museum of Indian Art & is quieter than he used to be.

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USA : Massachusetts : Boston [42.3584308,-71.0597732]

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