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July 16 Thursday.

Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.

In Collection:
Creator Subject Language Date created Resource type Rights statement Extent
  • 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller
Additional physical characteristics
  • The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.
Physical Repository Collection
  • Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
Provider Genre Archival item identifier
  • Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-511
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • July 16 Thursday. Great heat, but breeze. Another two drafts of ' To Disown the Records ' now called ' Birthday '. Bartolomé between balustrade (waiting for smith) and path outside my work-room window. Francisca the cook has a touch of sun, keeps her bed. Work on a difficult passage of Alan's drama notes over which L & I stuck last night, very tired, at 12 o clock. Counting up Epilogue III find we have already 250 pages & more to come from Norman and Alan; possibly Tom. Sent Cooke [£]4/- for Ant. stamp and O.S.S. American to Richards. * Ice-chest came. Slowly at Schools . It appears that the girls' distemper was due to drinking with the boys the other night.
Technical note
  • 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
Rights
  • Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
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