Easter Sunday, April 21
Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
- In Collection:
- 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller
- The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.
- Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
- Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-59
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-04-21.html
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- July 19, 2002
- Easter Sunday, April 21 Up early to work for Easter dinner: Laura & I, Carl, Gelat, Medora Madora . Anita, Juan, Magdalena, Francisquito : also Isabel came feeling better & Josefa & Carmen. salad with artichoke; atun & fenel mari , anchovies, pimientos etc. Chicken & herb soup; curried chicken-rice with sultanas, mushrooms, peas etc; roast kid (cutlets, kidney and leg) with broad beans from garden & mashed potatoes; a large cake from village & one made by Magdalena; champagne, coffee, cigars. Everything turned out all right and in afternoon Gelat, Medora, Laura, Karl, Anita & I played cards, 7 1/2. Gelat Madora & I lost, Gelat the worst; of Karl Laura & Anita , Laura the best. Laura changed into her dress made by Margarita from the brown brocaded silk given by Maisie, with lilac ribbon, and the ring (rose amethyst & diamond) we got when last in Palma, and Julie's gold bead necklace. Gelat told story of how slinging stopped in this village: Madonna of Cas Pintat's brother, when a boy, knocked out eye of Valldemossa man in cart entering village. Story of two robbers from Inca who planned an attack about 30 years ago on a house in San Marsal. The S. Marsal man they took into their confidence warned the village who surrounded them in the flat country just outside the village and despite the robbers having revolvers slung them to death with stones from their pasatges . Communists Kurtz & Ferres came to coffee after supper. He told a not quite credible story of his arrival in Spain & crossing border. Letter from Arthur Barker accepting my offer of terms on film book but preferring £ 50 on signature, £ 50 on delivery. I wrote insisting.
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