July 23 Thursday.
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-1-518
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1936-07-23.html
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- July 19, 2002
- July 23 Thursday. At 3 o clock in the morning the light went on. We and distant thought nothing of it. But in morning Seb. & Juana the fishwife in tears. Appears that 5 cars with 18 Fascist youths stopped outside the Fabrica. & G. offered them his services. They ordered him to put on the light. They said they wanted the Dr's house where a revolutionary was hiding. He said 'The Dr. is of your own party.' 'No, he's got a Socialist counsellor of Inca there.' (It appears the Dr had told a friend in Palma yesterday that the S.C. was in Deyá, & they got things mixed.) The Dr thought they were Fascists Communists sent by G. to kill him. They fired at his door. He escaped behind in drawers & alpargatas running up to Canfusimain eluding 2 Fascists behind the house, took refuge in Son Canals.Appeared only when the Fascists had gone in a lamentable state, had lost his alpargatas & had fallen & cut himself 50 times. The Fascists went on to Costa D'Or (making all local people salute Fascists) got S.C. & his wife & carried them off. The Fascist's told G. that they were 17 year olders but had already shot 8 men. Dr's wife & daughter hiding under mattress. Door shot to pieces, one bullet through her bed head. Pedro went to Palma. Antonia working for us today. The Deltés a French family from the Hotel, came to us to ask about communication. We told them that they were cut. They had been alarmed by the Costa D'Or affair, where they are. Gelat went into Palma with Bernardo [,] Tio Pedro. Mrs Broadwood & Miss Dennis. An aeroplane came over throwing leaflets that Palma will be bombarded if it doesn't surrender by 6. Aeroplane fired at. G. returned in a hurry with only Juan, Tio Pedro. afraid the car would be commandeered – the others left in Palma. Village in a panic, what with relatives in Palma and fear of Deyá being bombed. Fat woman rushed shrieking down the road. The whole of Juana Pescadora 's family went down to the Cala for safety. Schools At 6 three planes came over Palma & are said to have dropped 3 bombs. But Palma was already half-deserted, the population streaming out to neighbouring villages. Many came to ask shelter in Deyá. L. K. Alan and I did not work but sat outside Can Torrent to listen. after gramaphone & dancing. Karl & Alan gave me birthday presents – cigarettes, sweets a gum-pot. In the evening I went to the village: divided into 2 camps, the rights talking hard at Ayuntamiento , the lefts silent outside the Sala.
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