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Jan 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:
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-1-714
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • Jan 31 Sunday. Woke late. F. Richards came & helped Karl & me wash up. Then after a little talk with Laura he & I had drinks together at the Barley Mow in Dorset St, & then back. James, Mary, Honor, Alan who had not come last night because of Beryl. Then Frank said goodbye. We all to Josef. Alan back, talking of Beryl, dictionary, poems etc. Goodbye to Alan, to James & Mary who came to supper (Honor, Maisie, Karl too). Two drafts of a poem deriving from The Park Railings . Miss Wright at 8.30: accounts of inner life at Denham. Her work; her coming supersession. A.K.'s overdrafts. Cuts & lay-offs & dismissals. Would like to come to us. (Laura spoke to Maisie about a possible B.B.C. job for her) A.K. unwell & harassed. Epilogue until late.
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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