July 31 Sunday.
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-1-1260
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-07-31.html
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- July 19, 2002
- July 31 Sunday. A rather mad day. Got up at 5.15. Alan & Beryl already up since 4.30 waiting for bee-taker & Juan, duck hunting. At 6 both came. Juan & his Breton friend with a white retriever 'Apporte, mon beau, apporte mon petit homme! ' got 2 moor-hen – no duck. The bee-taker & menuisier found ladders too short for roof, so could not take honey comb from chimney top – they had burned sulphur in my chimney. So Juan shot up the chimneys & got no comb, only sooty wasps, bees & pupas. We put up the beds – I have a charming whitish one, wooden, with knobs. Laura brown one with bobbined-rail – having to saw transomes. Norman left at 3.50. A bicycle ride along by the lake – many bathers & fishers. I went over several poems: and was stung in the foot by a wasp. (Garlic)
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