Sharp diary 1918 page 42. Friday 8 February 1918 - Chicago
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Friday 8th of February 1918
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Rather a sleepless night so determine to get up this morning after finding my temp[erature] was normal. I shaved — rather a business to scrape off a 3-day beard — and then got back into bed to be examined by Walker. He maintained it is Grippe, that there can be no malaria in the mountains because no mosquitoes. We argue at length for 3 quarters of an hour straying off into politics, art and other subjects in the way usual on these occasions. On his departure I finish dressing and get into my sitting room. Miss Breckinridge of Hull House called — introduced by Glenn — a nice woman, and the first lady in our English sense of the word we have spoken to since we came here. She displayed great interest in my work in the mountains. I lunch downstairs and then have an afternoon read — not nap, alas! — in bed, reading the New Statesman, just arrived, which contained an admirable article on my Appalachian book. Perhaps one day I shall try to make an anthology of folk-poetry. In some ways I might make a better show at it than those of greater literary ability than mine. Maud takes Friday night’s classes at Physical School.Location
USA : Illinois : Chicago [41.8781136,-87.6297982]
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