Easter Monday. April 22
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-1-60
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-04-22.html
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- July 19, 2002
- Easter Monday. April 22 Up at 10.45; to sea with Solomon. Water still coldish. About 15 people from Costa d'Or bathing, mostly French speaking. Suleiman has worms. Swallow-tail butterflies. Currant-bush flowering in grotto. Song on road: Se ha puesto torero Porque no tiene miedo In Goring's Germany Reborn: Hitler compares himself to King Arthur. First clove pinks. Tea with Schwarz & Strenge. Emmerich there ungezogen . Then to Fábrica: champagne & panades empanadas . Gelat told story of tricks to get goods into Palma 30 years ago when it was a walled city and all country merchandize was taxed. Man dressed up a dead pig in a cura's cassock & set it upright in his carriage. “What have you there?” “A sleeping pig”. The exize excise man let him through. A lamb smuggled in under the skirts of a pregnant woman. “What have you to declare?” “Something that's just going to bleat.” Story of men who rather than swore they'd enter Palma with wine & sobresada & not pay. Sat down outside the gate & ate & drank it all. Wrote to Harrison Smith suggesting letter has gone astray: re-suggesting terms for film book.
- 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.
- DOI