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Palma Ap Monday Tuesday 7

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-1-411
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • Palma Ap Monday Tuesday 7 Yesterday At the Feria a 10 centimo fortune-telling apparatus prophesied a small inheritance. I had never had one before & today it came: 1/70th residuary legatee of my paternal grandfather's estate trust fund for my Aunt Lily (born 1810 - died 1899) — £18.7shillings 0. Very tired. Drew pension; bought Laura old diamond and small-sapphire ring for 150 pesetas. Laura dictated letters to Karl. I went to Casas. Nothing. She bought me white socks & shoes. I bought myself black shoes. Visited pottery factory bought pots & under-pieces. Victorian dinner service of 61 pieces at Margarita Mateu's for 100 pesetas. In the evening saw the worst film ever filmed. Vanessa: a Hugh Walpole story with Robert Montgomery & Helen Hayes.
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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