Sharp diary 1918 page 7. Friday 4 January 1918 - Chicago
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Friday 4th of January 1918
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Breakfast at 8.30. Wrote at my desk till 10.15 then went into town by 10.48, ordered a piano at Lyon and Healy’s, having failed to get one at Moran[?] & Hawlins. Saw the manager who knew all about me — I had seen him two years ago at Gray’s suggestion. They promised faithfully to send p[iano] f[orte] on the morrow after tuning it. The bought this diary which Maud insisted on giving me and returned in time for lunch. Rested and wrote hard at my Introduction which is at last taking shape till dinner. The meals here are quite nice and satisfactory. The worst part is the bed the blankets of which are at the most the size of the bed and do not tuck in at the sides or the bottom nor fold over at the top. Some of them are still smaller! At 8.30 Baskervill came in and we spent a long and pleasant evening talking. We showed him our songs etc, singing Edward to him, and he told us about his Jig book, saying he wanted me to help him over the dance part of it.1 He has done a lot of research and it will probably help me very much to go through what material he has collected out of books, old plays etc. He did not go till 10.30 having asked us to come over on Sunday afternoon about 3 to see the University library etc. Weather still very cold and very slippery under foot, but the thermometer as high as 19 Not so clear nor so fine and sunny as N[ew] York but quite pleasant. The Lake which is all frozen over, piled up in small ice hummocks is very picturesque.Location
USA : Illinois : Chicago [41.8781136,-87.6297982]
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