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Friday Sept 20th

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-1-211
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • Friday Sept 20th Letter to Philip about Millicent. Magnificent Hadrian sent for review by Observer . Reviewed it. Wretched stuff. To Lluchalcari with film for Hutchinson and message from Laura that she liked his attack of subject, so far as she had read. Karl had bought the wrong films. They gave me coffee. Dorothy Hutchinson complains how cold the nights were (after burning in the sun all day) Isabel not well enough to come. Laura going over Michael Roberts still. To village to hear news & order things. Found Gelat's 6 marble tables & 6 wooden ones and 15 comfortable chairs, & bar of Alhambra-like glazed tiles, in position. Ordered clock to complete effect of well-stocked café. First draft of poem Gulls & Such . ?Apple-meddlars? from feathery tree in garden.
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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