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July 15 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:
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-1-879
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • July 15 Thursday. In the car to Guildford . Bought 2 Staffordshire jugs for Philip's wedding present, & a pair of pinchbeck earrings for Laura, 5/-. Also putters & golf balls at Woolworths. Heavy weather, rain in evening. 10 pages of Ghost chapter VII. Smiths Dictionary of Bible, Christian Biography, Christian Antiquities – 10 huge volumes, & Milman's Latin Christianity in 8 volumes came, Procopius in 6. (one to follow). Reading Procopius. ¿ How to deal with the ineluctable mauve carpet & the irremediable yellow-brown fire-place tiles?
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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