Ima's mysterious 1918 notebook, continued

[The next notebook page is a large, hurried scrawl about a possible furniture purchase.]

9 chairs Rush

      Botoms

       with new

      Bottomss of Flag

            at 10 Each

            Crated Read

            to Shipp at

      And clock

      case at 10.00

      with hands--

[Next comes a reading list, after what appears to be a page or pages torn out.]

Summer 1918: The mysterious notebook

[Suddenly copied into the notebook, part of Robert Browning’s 1841 verse drama, Pippa Passes, describing a sunrise.]

Day!

Fast and more fast

O’er night’s brim, day boils at last

Boils, pure gold, o’er the cloud cap’s brim,

Where spurting and suppress’d it lay--

For not a froth-flake touched the rim Of yonder gap in the solid gray Of the eastern cloud, an hour away; But forth one wavelet, then another, curled, Till the whole sunrise, not to be supprest, Rose, reddened, and its seething breast Flickered in bounds, grew gold, then overflowed the world.

         from Pippa Passes                            

                  Introduction

After missing pages in the notebook, part of a poem copied.

Why?

Mia's Summer 1918 Notebook, continued.

[Symphony notes, continued] 

Organization of orchestra:

How many men?

Day or night?

How financed?

Average pay by rehearsals

    “        “    “  salary

per week?

Industrial workers as musicians?

How used in other cities?

Conductor:

Community singing

Lecturer

Orchestra conductor?

Band master

  

9

Oratorio conductor:

Salary--

City & orchestra organizations?

Sunday concerts

orchestra--band

Home Talent

Visiting Lecturers

City appropriations for Sunday entertainment

Expense of orchestra

Receipts expected from performances, subscriptions

Deficit proportionate to attendance?

  

[A page or pages appear to have been torn out]