Sharp diary 1918 page 37. Sunday 3 February 1918 - Chicago
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Sunday 3rd of February 1918
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Wake up feeling very sticky as I expected. Tried to go on with my pamphlet after breakfast but found myself unequal to it. Baskervill called, smoked a couple of cigarettes and stayed about 1_ hours and talked — Maud still in bed. Then I wrote out some tunes — finished off the variants of the Child Ballads. After tea began revising some of the earlier parts of my pamphlet. Professor Tolman & Mrs T came to dinner downstairs with us and then came up here to our rooms for the evening. He is utterly inartistic but has plenty of knowledge of the academic type and the kind you get in Germany — he is a Ph.D of Leipzig. He drops his h’s and is quite crude and uncultivated though well educated of course and a thoroughly good sort of the hearty type. Mrs T is quiet and inoffensive and very sorry that her boy who is in the army smokes! This craze against smoking in America is most irritating and savours of early 19th century. It is curious how the provincial attitude of America crops up everywhere. This war ought to do a lot of good.Location
USA : Illinois : Chicago [41.8781136,-87.6297982]
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