I dozed away all day, eat practically nothing till the evening when Maud somehow or other managed to purchase an egg called fresh and at least eatable. Feel that this is merely the result of going down to Evanston on Tuesday. The only force which determines is the force which the capitalist exercises by spending his money this way or that. So that a man like myself has to waste himself as I did on Monday — spend 7 hours physical energy in order that I may try — quite in vain — to teach 30 giggling schoolteachers some dances which they will never do decently nor desire to do decently.
A queer world. A very restless night and a baddish day, the fever coming back very amazingly in the afternoon again. The symptoms are extraordinarily like those of my mountain attacks and I do not believe I am suffering from Grippe at all — I have no rheumatic pains for one thing and they are almost always there in my attacks of Grippe. My lips and ears are breaking out as before. Letter from Constance today — dated Jan[uary] 8th, Maud getting one from Joan by same post dated 18th.
The censor must have kept her letter a tremendous time. She wants money as I expected she would. 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! 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 went off to the Physical Training College early. I got up later and did some more tunes for the book and pottered about my work generally.
I feel better but still very groggy and soon get tired and ready to lie down. The weather is not so cold as it was. I fancy I shall not get well until I can get out and get some air. I like her immensely. She is a New England woman and there is no doubt but that Americans who come from that part of the country have far more cultivation on the average than others. It is clear to me that but for the influx of immigrants during the last 20 or 25 years the New Englanders would have achieved a real and distinct culture all their own.
Now of course it is more or less overlaid because the eastern part of the state is just that part where the largest number of the immigrants is to be found. There are far more foreigners than natives in Boston.
Feel rather better this morning and get up for breakfast — in fact have my breakfast half an hour before Maud! Get through a fair amount of work to day — a few tunes, but chiefly letters and a little harmonizing. I want to get my correspondence fairly in hand before I go away tomorrow night. Weather beautifully bright and springlike so Maud and I feeling we must have some decent plain food at the end of our walk look in on the Windermere Hotel and have our lunch there — quite a good one!
So nice indeed that we make further enquiries about rooms and decide on the spur of the moment to spend our last 10 days in Chicago at the Windermere Hotel — a most fateful decision involving the necessity of telling the Elms people we are going to forsake them for their rivals! In the evening I tackle the letter to Mrs Hobbes and dictate a long screed to Maud who types it down. If I can lick it into shape tomorrow morning and get it off to England before I leave it will be a great weight off my mind.
Look through the Hobbes letter after breakfast. Find it passably good after a few verbal alterations, sufficiently severe as however to necessitate re-typing. This Maud does in the course of the morning and the letter is posted triumphantly by lunch time — I send a copy to Glenn to whom I happen to be writing at the time.
I finish off a good deal of correspondence in the morning and also finish my packing for the move and for what I want to take with me to Minneapolis to-night. Go out for half an hour before lunch to get some of the nice fresh soft air which is as balm after what we have had to breath in the last 6 weeks.
The thaw is progressing at a great rate but so long as one wears galoshes it is quite possible to get about. Maud and I hire a motor to take me to the station and we leave at 5. I drop her at Randolph Station as she is going to Evanston to take the classes and then go on to N.
Station and catch the 6. Eat the usual very high priced and nasty dinner in the dining car and then to bed — lower berth for a change now that I am by myself! Arrive Minneapolis up to time — 7. I recognize her when I see her as the lady we once had to tea at Adelaide Road! We taxi to her house — a very nice one — and I have breakfast with her.
Then retire to have a bath, shave and clean myself up. Afterwards we go out for a walk and a talk. Weather still delightfully warm even here where a few days ago it was 40 below zero! Rather a stupid audience but I think my appeal may bear some fruit.
He is the son of Colin Hunter the artist and knows the Fords and other of my Kensington friends. He is a young architect of parts and we had a very pleasant chat together. To bed, very tired. After breakfast play some of my recent accompaniments to Miss B[outelle] who admires Barbara Allen exceedingly. Then we go down and call at the Bellman office where I first meet Mr Bellow a young and rather nice University man and then Mr Edgar the proprietor. Take to the latter very readily more especially when he said that American opinion as to Northcliffe coincide with mine viz that he was a bounder!
Find Purcell is a passenger though I do not meet him until the morrow. Glad to turn in even to a railway bed, I am so dead tired. Have a long talk with Purcell at breakfast. The fool of a taxi-man took me half round Chicago trying to find my hotel so that I did not arrive till Maud was out taking a class so I did not see her till after I had bathed and shaved.
Our new rooms are a great improvement on those at the Elms. We stroll out before lunch and I get a new pipe. We sit on a seat facing the lake and let the strong but soft wind blow over us — it was just lovely. After lunch have a long sleep which I wanted very badly — and then to correspondence — Miss de Long , Miss Boutelle and Constance etc. Have a nice quiet dinner and so to bed fairly early. In the morning directly after an early breakfast go off with Maud to Hull House to take classes from A regular Settlement kind of place.
Miss Boyd rather stiff with me but whether from pride or shyness I know not. Students dance fairly well but not up to very much. In the evening Maud and I dine at the Auditorium and then go to the Physical Training place to take the 3-h[ou]r classes They were at Stratford in Return with Mrs Collien pretty well baked about 11p.
After the lecture we have a general dance but not very many girls join in as they are all getting ready for a party of their own in the evening. We get home about 4. I wrote out a lot more tunes before and after dinner. Weather quite warm and we get very thirsty so go downstairs and have fruit lemonade in the Tiffin room. This Hotel is quite comfortable and the food good, but of course as usual in American Hotels, locks, taps, latches, blinds etc are all out of order!
Peg away at my tunes after rather a late breakfast. I have now written out nearly airs and the end is in sight. Maud as usual a good way behind me! The more I see of Mrs Collin the better I like her. We met Mrs Kendal and her mother there. The latter is a fiery garrulous, not unpleasant old lady very suffragetty and anti-English and wanted to fight me and would have done had I been on! They came up to our rooms afterwards and we talked and argued very pleasantly till pretty late in the day about I like them both but they have no very wide vision.
In England we would class them as "Garden City". But at any rate they talk with soft voices which is something to be thankful for. Weather very much warmer, inclined towards rain. Write letters and tunes in the morning. After lunch and a rest go down to Hull House where I lecture on folk-dancing.
Have a long talk with Miss Boyd afterwards who opened out more than she did last week. We took a taxi to the N. Western station where we had tea, I taking 6 train to Evanston. Had dinner at Jones Restaurant — rather better than usual — then take 2-hour class, teaching Bonny Brown, Newcastle and Picking up Sticks.
I got back to the hotel at midnight very tired of course. Thank Goodness I have only one more Evanston trip to make on Wednesday week. Very tired when I wake up after a ridiculously warm night. A real muggy rainy day such as we frequently have in London in February.
The mountains of snow have all but disappeared. Maud went off early to Hull House. After dinner I dictate a long letter to Kittredge suggesting a publication scheme. Weather getting colder again and weather man says we shall have 22 degrees of frost to-night. Quite likely. This is a land of extremes. Weather very cold again. Had a nasty ear-ache in the night but it is all right again. I suspect the damp wind yesterday gave it a chill. Wrote out a lot more tunes this morning and by lunch time had triumphantly reached the end of them about altogether.
Tomorrow I hope to begin a general revision and re-adjustment. After lunch wrote several letters to Schirmer , Constance , and Mrs Armstrong. After tea departed for my last Evanston grind. It was as usual terribly cold 5 below zero as I came home. It was really a very pleasant evening. They are nice people and just love Newcastle! I joined in with the best set at the end of the evening and did Newcastle 3 or 4 times over.
I also taught them The Old Mole. Got my cheque dollars after the class and arrived back at Pegged away all morning at my tunes beginning a careful revision of them. Maud went off early to Hull house and did not return till After a rest had tea and went on with my tunes till dinner when Dr Walker joined us downstairs as our guest. He paid Maud marked attention and evidently has designs in that direction.
He gave her his pencil and I dare say would have given more had she asked it. Maud went off again to Hull House and left me continuing the revision of my tunes. I worked without cessation from 8. Maud returned late as she went to get tickets for Sunday.
Rather an amusing dinner, notwithstanding! They came round to the classes at the Normal School and sat there till we finished at 10 p. Our last class there thank goodness. The students seemed to like it and said good bye very friendlily. I am afraid we did not do over much for them. Got home about 11 very tired as usual. A lovely warm spring like day. Slept last night with window wide open and for the greater part of the night under a sheet only! Finished the revision of my tunes after breakfast and then packed my trunk.
The Running Set page- proof came in and took a long time to correct. The proofs most unintelligently done. The Printer has used 6 or 7 different types for 3 headings or sub-headings! Quite a business to put it straight. And to add to the confusion they omitted the first sheet!
This however arrived just after I had posted off the others! Got my packing done by dinner and all the proofs off. The Baskervills were coming in to dinner but afterwards said they would come in after. We talked a good deal but she is really a very difficult shrewish woman which makes us pity him. We imagined we were going to arrive at 3. Mr Ashe met us and motored us to the Pontchartrain Hotel where, having settled on rooms, we repaired to the reception room where 30 or 40 people were assembled to greet us!
Mr Dyar, apparently a rich person and a sort of managing Ward Hinman ran the show and introduced us to various Detroit worthies. Then we changed our rooms to a higher floor and a quieter aspect and then trammed to Mrs Armstrong to supper.
Had a very al fresco supper with her and her husband a nice man and an attorney by trade. Returned home about Feeling rather chippy after my disturbed night had breakfast at 9. Back home for a short rest and a hurried tea and then to same room for the first class of the Education people under Miss Perrin.
Nearly all women but quite good — no aesthetic movements thank Heaven! Smallish audience in large room. Lantern out of order so dispensed with slides. It was rather a successful affair. Glad to get home. Weather warm but several very heavy showers in the day. Getting cold again in the evening.
Up early, very cold frosty morning. Breakfasted at 7. Took an hour to answer and then it was time to go to lunch with Mr Hume at Little Theatre — a really beautiful place with exhibits of arts and crafts.
Back to tea — no time for rest — and then to Hall to take second class of Education people. May M. Up early again to be at Liggett School at 9. We had the young children for nearly an hour, singing to them and teaching them singing games. Miss Dyar asked us to lunch to meet May Mukle[?
It was rather a nice meeting and we arranged with Miss M. In the afternoon take 3rd class of the Educational people who are a really good lot. In the morning I lectured at the Ingleward Club to a very large audience — room packed. I talked for 45 minutes then sang several songs and afterwards showed slides.
The lecture was, I think, quite successful. Had great difficulty in getting milk on our return to the hotel — took us over an hour constantly telephoning to pull it off. This hotel is comfortable enough but not over well managed — radiators, bath, taps etc all more or less out of order and attendance very erratic. I take 10 class of recreation people, Maud staying at home and going on with our book. In the afternoon at 4. We dined at same place that we had lunched at and then spent the evening with the Shippens.
I like them very much and think they will be helpful in starting a Center here. This is what we are working toward at present. Returned home at about 11, meeting Miss Perrin in the train.
Got our milk in decent time, but it was "loose milk" and not worth drinking! Took first class of Recreation people myself. Maud rather fagged — Taught them Newcastle which they did quite well. Miss Perrin called at 8. The children did queer things, called "Stunts", acrobatic tricks, standing on their heads, frog dance etc but practically nothing of any artistic worth. The work very poor merely] because they have so little knowledge of what to do.
Talked to Miss P[errin] to this effect. Miss P lunched with us. I talked about May Day Celebrations the folk-lore of the dances etc and advised generally about the music etc of the school. Took the 2 classes one after the other from 9. Everyone seemed very pleased and we had many tender farewells to make before we parted.
Back to hotel to sleep, have tea and pack — rather a terrible business as we are both thoroughly tired out! This is not bad seeing that I came here mainly on spec — or faith whichever it may be. Afterwards we went to the Symphony orchestra — all Tchaikowsky conducted very ably by Gabrielowitch — a Pole I presume. Then picking up our light baggage at Hotel drove to the station where we caught the midnight train for Chicago.
A great business getting to bed as we were in evening clothes. Arrived Chicago at 7. Got breakfast at the station — Maud not being well eat but little — then got shaved — I not Maud — and caught 8. Miss Freer and Miss Marin[? Had a great business getting decent rooms at the Inman Hotel as although Miss Freer had engaged rooms for us they had forgotten all about it! Back to Hotel. Maud dined in bed, I solus.
By means of a judicious dollar tip got her things moved and herself also into her new quarters. Sent off my cheques to the bank and then to bed. Weather beautifully fine and quite warm and spring-like. Went up to University in the afternoon but had morning to myself. Maud still in bed but probably will get up later. Wrote several letters to Dr Battle etc, looked through, and destroyed or filed letters etc.
So I chose out of the way issues and certainly succeeded in breaking new ground for them as well as myself. Back at 10 p. Maud is better and will be able to help me tomorrow. Maud all right. We went up to begin at 9. Returned to a very dull inadequate and lengthened luncheon.
I talk on the fiction that Erb is as keen about folk music as I am, which keeps him in fine temper and amuses me! Take the conservative line in politics, or rather the value of a conservative party to act as a drag, and point to Russia as a hideous example of a nation which lacks one.
Weather just lovely, warm, sunny with pleasant breeze. Thermometer 65 at 5. We were 8 below zero less than a fortnight ago! In the evening teach from running through the Running Set and some C[ountry] dances. Weather very much colder with snow predicted. Go up to University at 9. Back to hotel and rest, writing long letter to Constance.
Maud goes back to take a Morris Class at 3, I follow her half an hour later to see her class and give the training students a talk on dance-technique. I talk for the best part of an hour on naturalness in dancing the folly of turning out the feet, swathing the body in corsets and the feet in pointed, high-heeled shoes etc.
Back to hotel in bitter cold weather to dress for dinner. Get home about 10 p. Weather continues bitterly cold and I shall be lucky if I weather this cold spell without mishap. Went up to the University at 9.
After that I had a short talk with the President and then returned to the Hotel to dinner, Miss Morris joining us. At 8 there was a meeting of the Faculty Dance Club. They danced, some of them fairly well, but there were a lot of beginners and this made things rather difficult. Some one motored us home about Weather beautifully fine but rather cold, though not so cold as yesterday.
A quiet morning with no classes to take — which was very restful and nice. I made out a list of books for the Librarian as I had promised wrote a long screed to Mrs Storrows and a birthday letter to little Susannah — this last rather overdue. Looked through papers etc and got things into order as well I could.
What a trial travelling in this country is. It takes 2 or 3 days to arrange a journey! Went up to the University in the afternoon to take the final rehearsal at the Auditorium.
Things did not go very well, mainly because of the lack of air in the Hall, but it was a very useful rehearsal. We then dined with Miss Freer and her room-mate Miss Wheeler — a very nice and quiet little dinner, and then — thoroughly tired out — went to [? On arrival home found a cryptic telegram from Chicago people about our reservations which involved a long visit to the Station and a lengthy telegram to Chicago.
It looks as though we may be unable to get a train on Sunday at all! Began packing directly after breakfast and then up to University at 10 for last class of teachers.
I gave them a long talk about accuracy etc and taught them some new dances. After lunching at Cafeteria returned to Hotel to find we had got 2 reservations on 8. An awful thought. Go up at 3. Back to Hotel after an ice-cream supper at a University grub-shop given us by Miss Burssell[? Arrived Chicago an hour late but had plenty of time to catch our train.
Bussed to La Salle station where I got shaved and then we got on the train and started off with breakfast at 8. Train very full, and weather very cold with snow showers. This winter will never end! Made some rather nice friends on the train but we snoozed a good deal — especially Maud who must have slept and snored a good 8 hours.
Went to bed fairly early, having put on our watches an hour to Eastern time. Train running late of course but we do not mind so much as we get a dollar returned to us for every hour we are late! Train 3 hours late, so we breakfast on board and finally reach N[ew] York at 11 a.
Get 3 dollars back, each of us, and then taxi to Hotel. Find rooms ready for us on 3rd floor and I shave, have a hot bath and change what clothes I can pending the arrival of our trunks. I rest after lunch and after tea go out to the Gilmans where we have a long talk chiefly about the Summer School.
Rabold goes out for the evening and Maud and I dine quietly at Seven Candles — the nicest meal we have had for a long time. I have an enormous mail to attend to so I write 4 or 5 letters, unpack my trunk and settle in generally till bed-time. Terribly worn out after the journey still feeling the vibration of the train!
Otherwise I am feeling quite fit. Weather beautifully bright but very cold indeed. Wrote one or two letters and then went out, first to Putnams where Savage promised to send a Review copy of my book to the Music Student and lent me three new cuttings to look through.
Then to Gray to discuss C[ountry] D[ance] Book. Of course like Putnams last year! Then to Schirmer where Sonneck promised to send me proofs tomorrow and where I arranged to get my note books printed.
Then I called on Bradley only to find him out, but was more fortunate with Glenn and Miss Moore both of whom were in. Lunched by myself at 7 candles, Maud having gone to the doctor to be inoculated for typhoid. After tea wrote more letters and then round to Gilman Studio to see a rehearsal of Flamboro. Bradley dined with us at 7 candles and then came back to hotel where we smoked and discussed many things.
I should like to see much of him but fear this will never be though for the moment he happens to have an office in N[ew] York. Weather warmer with a few slight rain showers. Woke up rather late, feeling rather chippy, the exertions of the last 2 or 3 weeks are beginning to show.
Maud is rather in the dumps too but that is partly owing I expect to the inoculation. We went down town to get note books, ink etc. I made a valiant attempt to find Hough but failed after spending nearly half an hour in the Equitable building.
Lunched with Maud at the Gilmans. In the evening dined with Miss Mukle[? It was nice to talk over English things with them. Am working on the dances for the Army book, but it is hard to do — rather a niggling business.
Worked at this in the afternoon and evening. Expect proofs tomorrow from Schirmer so I have plenty in front of me in the way of work.
Weather much colder and inclined to rain. A very wet day after a rainy night — cold and raw. Worked at C[ountry[ D[ance] book for Army after breakfast.
At 11 went out to see Mrs Storrows for a moment at the Belmont. She promised to look up Hotel for us at Boston. Then to see Mannes at his Conservatoire of Music and had rather an interesting talk with him. Then home to find Schirmer proofs awaiting me. Set to work on these after tea and made a good hole in them. Happily they are quite first-rate proofs and although they will take some time to look through they are worth spending time upon.
Got home again at about It has rained more or less all day and it is very chilly in the bargain. He came up to my room afterwards and I read him the Hobbs letter of which he approved.
After tea the C[ountry] D[ance] book proofs came in from Gray. The originals were sent to the Pontchartrain Hotel Detroit and have not been seen since and these are thoroughly badly done! So I am in the soup with them. After tea went at proofs and finished first reading of them. Began looking through proofs of C[ountry] D[ance] book which Gray has just sent — omitting to send me my original corrected ones. A great business. Knickerbocker Press i. Dined downstairs and worked all the evening at proofs.
Felt very seedy and depressed about things in general, partly the weather, partly my own health, but mainly reading the newspapers which give no comfort anywhere at present. Cold and a gale of wind — very unpleasant still. A much finer day, warmer and less wind. Woke up feeling desperate — must be gouty I think.
We passed 7 out of the eight elementaries and 2 out of the 5 C[ountry] D[ance] candidates. It took us a long time as there were several on the border line. Feel rather better in the evening but I am far from well. I am afraid it is because I have widened my diet.
And the worst of it is I do not see how I can help doing so in the present state of the food market! A very pleasant little lunch. He told me when he married Mrs Hester he promised to become an American citizen after the war, but now she insists — much to his evident satisfaction — that he should retain his English nationality even after the war! I like Rebecca Clarke and her still taller sister — a sculptor — and we had a nice time there.
They live in a comfortable but expensive apartment house. It was rather an amusing evening. After breakfast suddenly developed a pain in the large toe of my right foot — suspiciously like gout — absit omen! I can only walk with great difficulty and considerable pain.
My foot very painful in the night so go to Dr Vansing[? I taxi home and wait for Maud who has been to her doctor for the second inoculation.
She is rather knocked up by the operation so we are a pretty crocked pair at lunch. I spend the afternoon in finishing off Army book drawing figures for the hey- diagrams etc.
Bradley comes to dinner and announces that he has joined the Army as first lieut[enant] in the Sanitary Corps, and goes to Washington on Tuesday next. This strikes the knell, most effectually, of my Yale aspirations. We have a long talk on general matters in my room upstairs I with my foot on a pillow feeling very old and fearful of the future. My foot is better but I am suffering from that d[amne]d medicine.
I am only taking half-doses and those 3 times instead of 4 times a day, but this is more than enough to give me continuous headache, pain in my eyes etc. Find it very trying to be stuck indoors more particularly as my room is a very dark one and I have to keep electric light on at full blast all day! It is I think on the whole as good as anything Shaw has done perhaps his most perfect play.
It keeps up bang to the end which his plays rarely do. I am not sure but that the last Act is not the best. Got home about 11 very thirsty so we all had drinks before turning in.
Play first performed by George Bernard Shaw Woke up with a bad headache and a touch of lumbago. As my elbows are playing up also the whole bag of tricks seems to be seething! Then to Meyrowitz for my glasses and on to Gray about proofs. He gives me a batch to look over. I hobbled about with some difficulty but I do not think I did my foot any harm. It is better but far from right yet.
Took some aspirin at lunch and then rested after which my headache began to subside. So I began packing and then went out with Maud to return proofs to Gray and see Marble[? Back to packing till Rabold called at 6.
He went on to Greenwich and we spent the evening tearing up papers, putting clothes away and packing. A wretched business and I suppose we shall be doing it every week or so for ever so long!
I shall be glad when I am quit of hotels. Then on to Miss Gilman to leave my lantern slides in her charge. One of them told me she had had to learn B[arbara] Allen at school but only as poetry upon which to write a composition!
Then back to Hotel to finish up. Rabold met us at the station en route to Newhaven while we took train to Boston. Miss Flanders met us — Mrs S at Lincoln — and accompanied us to hotel. We have very nice rooms but quite expensive.
Must change later on if we stay for any length of time. Dined at hotel — a very expensive but frugal meal — then settled in as well we could without our trunks. Weather cold and foggy here after leaving N[ew] York sweltering in heat at a temp[erature] of over Trunks came late last night, so after breakfast we both did some unpacking, letter writing etc. Telephoned Kittredge and Mrs Coolidge , who asked us to sup with us tomorrow to which we provisionally agreed. Mrs Storrows phoned at 12 and said she would call on us at 2.
We lunched at a cheap and nasty place. She went off and left us there while we remained to see the pictures which are a very fine collection. I left cards on Carrington and Coomaraswamy. We looked in at Hennenway Hotel and found we could get passable rooms for two dollars, but none vacant at the moment. Weather very cold indeed and I found walking back very uncomfortable because of my old toe and the weather.
War news very depressing. After a bad night — because of war news — breakfasted at 8. A nice comfortable house. They seem very happy. He is a nice simple minded big bear of a man who suits her very well I think. Spent a pleasant evening and then motored back 25 miles or more to Lincoln and to bed in a very comfortable room.
A lovely house which grows on you the more you know and stay in it. No fog. Breakfast at 8 and then left for Boston with Mrs S[torrow] at 9. On arriving and settling in worked at Mountain book, arranged MS and made list of songs ballads etc.
New book will contain tunes — about same length as first one. Kittredge telephoned and asked me to dine with him at 7 p. Met Mrs Coolidge at the Mary Elizabeth and we had lunch there and a long talk afterward. After tea we finished off our list with statistics and then went off to dinner. K[ittredge] alas! I had a very nice evening. We sat at the table from 7 to 10 when K walked home with me. I like him very much indeed — he is a scholar and a gentleman! Lily was here on our return and accompanied Maud to the doctor for her third inoculation.
We had tea here with Miss Sandiford who called and so we were a very jovial party. At 6 we 3 sallied forth to the Priscilla restaurant for dinner and then to the school for classes. I like that class very much. Mearns is one of the best men C[ountry] dancers I have ever come across. Maud not very well. She and Lily breakfast an hour or so after me. We all lunch at the Kensington. Lily has tea with us and then leaves for Grotton.
I spend nearly all my day revising my books for the copyist at Harvard, a long and wearisome business — but by bed-time I have managed to break the back of it. Weather fairly fine but very windy and rather cold. Go round to school at Do a good deal of work of sorts. Back to lunch with Maud. Mr Carrington calls for me at 6 and takes me to his home out at Auburn where I spend a very pleasant evening. Mrs C is a nice middle-aged person with 4 children, 2 girls and 2 boys — one boy away from home in business.
We talk about many things discuss Bradley and his work — it was through Bradley that I had the introduction. I return at Meet Chase in the street and arrange to lunch with him next Monday.
Go off to School again and spend morning there harmonizing chiefly on The Nightingale which is rather nice. Back to lunch at the Kensington by myself, Maud being ill in bed chiefly from the effects of the typhoid inoculation. After tea write out what I had harmonized of Nightingale and then dress for dinner at Mrs Storrows.
We had asked Mrs Gibbs to dine with us but Mrs Storrows wanted us to dine with her so she telephoned Mrs Gibbs and arranged it that way. But it was too large a party for me to get any private conversation with Mrs Storrows.
Weather very bright but a cold east wind. Though Good Friday no one seems to make any difference. The shops are all open as on ordinary week days. Get home about The war news is a little better today but the outcome of the great battle — this is the 8th day — is still in suspense. I find it very hard to sleep with thinking of it and have a good deal of neuralgia over my eye in consequence.
Spend another long morning at school harmonizing and finishing off first draft of Nightingale. Breakfast early — Maud an hour later — and go through proofs of ballad book which arrived last night. The book ought soon to be out now — it looks very well, the engraving is excellent. Maud meets me at the M[ary] Elizabeth where we have lunch. Then I do some shopping — pipes and tobacco — while she does the same on her own account both meeting at tea.
Then finish off proofs and send them off. In the evening we both feel too tired to tackle any more work so we go out to the Movies and get a good deal amused if not greatly edified. We went to the Exeter theatre close by here. Lunched at Hotel, rested, had some tea and then went off to West Medford to sup with the Coolidges.
Took the children some candies by way of an Easter egg. Had a very nice time there — the usual toasted cheese over the chafing dish at supper. Afterwards we had a long, friendly and interesting argument about democracy, parliamentary government and finally prohibition. Maud helped me a little in the last count and Mr McGoffan but the rest were all prohibitionists — more or less rabid.
Returned home with Mr William getting back about A very enjoyable evening. Went off to School again and continued harmonizing till after 12 when I called at the Library for Dr Chase with whom I had promised to lunch. We had a nice talk about Library matters and his experiences in England at Cambridge etc in his Anglo Saxon researches.
Afterwards went to see some pictures with him. It was nice to meet Fifine and her two sisters and to do a little mild dancing but my foot still hurts me and I can only dance with great difficulty. We leave about It was so warm to day that I had to dispense with an overcoat.
Actually 79 in the shade at 4 p. Feel dreadfully slack. Hope it is only the effect of the Spring weather and not the introduction to another bout of gout! Feel so sleepy and stupid hardly know how to get about my work.
I do some harmonizing at School in the morning and then lunch with Maud at the Kensington. Lily was to have been there — she is staying with us for the night — but did not turn up till after tea time. I work with Maud at the Berea book after tea when I dress for dinner and go to Kittredges to dine at his house in Cambridge. I like Mrs Kittredge and her two daughters very much and we have a very pleasant and simple evening.
I told them a lot about my collecting experiences in England and the mountains, played the piano a little and altogether had a very pleasant time — I like them all very much. The daughters have promised to some to our C[ountry] D[ance] party next Monday.
Get home soon after 11 p. Weather extraordinarily warm still but expect colder weather tomorrow — so the papers say. Quite a cold day. I go off quite early to the school but return at I got a telephone from a Miss Hibberd of Wellesley [College] about a possible lecture there next week if I remain till Tuesday.
Then we motor together with a fireman[? Have a very bad crowded, wet and cold motor drive home arriving back well after 11 p. Rather a miserable business altogether but glad to do anything for Mrs Storrows.
The Scout Captains were not very interesting people but one or two were rather nice e. Mrs Lowe who has a house in London — Grosvenor Square — and was interested in ballads etc — or said she was!
Woke up with a headache and very cold. A NE wind all day which after the late warm weather is particularly searching. Had breakfast in our own rooms, Lily having lent us an electric toaster and given us a pot of marmalade! A slow uninteresting business, all the worse because my head had become really very bad.
With aid of an aspirin got through a good lot of work before dinner and then continued it afterwards till 10 p. We have done nearly half the book thank goodness. Had a wire from Miss Hamilton asking me to take a weeks work at Toronto from the 19th.
Replied that I could take it a week earlier from the 11th, but practically impossible to manage the later date. A frost last night! Very cold N East wind to day with clear sky and hot sun.
Went to school to harmonize as usual directly after breakfast till Then I returned, rested, had tea and then wrote out tunes for the Berea book and worked at William Hall which I started harmonizing this morning. I have now started 11 and more or less finished nine in first state. Some are rather nice but some are weak and may have to be rejected.
We dined here at the hotel and then went on with the Berea book in the evening. We shall find it a little difficult to get it done in time i. Miss Hibberd telephoned this morning and I am to go to Wellesley on Tuesday by the 3 train, see Physical School in the afternoon and lecture on ballads in the evening — my only engagement here this trip. Went off to School after breakfast but did next to nothing.
Indeed I feel very depressed about my harmonizations since I came to Boston and begin to doubt whether I have done anything of any value. Perhaps this is only my mood of the moment. After tea — we lunched at the Kensington — worked desultorily at my music and the Berea book, then got ready and met Kittredge at Adams House — he was to be my guest at dinner. It was rather imposing — 80, people marching with simple but sometimes very effective home-made decorations.
Had a very interesting talk with Kittredge. We sat at table from 7 to He is a good raconteur and he has had many experiences in America and other counties to relate. He told me a good deal about the inner life at Harvard which I found very interesting and entertaining.
Then Maud and I hacked out the words of the last 2 recalcitrant ballads, I wrote out the tunes, dictated a letter to Prof[essor] Raine , made a parcel of the MS and lo! What relief was ours. It had been a hard grind the major pull of it having been made by the faithful Maud. Lunch downstairs — stodgy, rich and expensive — rest and then a walk to get some stamps and take the air. Did more work of a desultory sort after dinner and then to bed.
I am still feeling hopelessly slack. Perhaps the mountain air and some new folk songs will restore me. I must have some sort of change or I shall be collapsing again. Wrote to Mr V[aughan] W[illiams] this morning. Directly after breakfast in our own room we got ready, packed up my precious MS books and trammed to Harvard Square and went to the Library to see Mr Potter. He called Kittredge down and we discussed how the books should be copied.
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