And I remember another ridiculous detail

TCD MS 11274/15 folio 4 verso

TCD MS 11274/15 folio 4 verso

[9 December 1915]

<something like> “Ta petite main est gelée” listen attentively for its surely wonderful. I well remember it that Sunday night at the opera comique and the tenor how good & clear he was and the way he stood like this [sketch here] when he sang a high note near the end of it instead of like this [sketch here] as a good many do. And I remember another ridiculous detail that my boots were muddy and I needed a shave & was untidy and was in rather an expensive