Aug 18 Tuesday.
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-1-545
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1936-08-18.html
- July 19, 2002
- Aug 18 Tuesday. My new suit arrived, Laura's Bridget Hat, post card from Juan (Pequeño) dated Aug 8th, saying all well. Ant. proofs. Troy 4. Dull warm day. Mrs Fenwich Williams looked in at lunch & asked was I a relative of Basil Taylor, was Laura a) Spanish b) on the stage. Started with headache: went at 11 o clock. Kicking a coloured ball about in the garden in the afternoon with John and Alan. Walk with Lucie, John, Peggy in country – saw a barn of large flint, brick, pink plaster, black tarred end-boards, tiles. Bell in evening with Gwen Hutcheson – Fairy outside in car. Lady Shepherd has a house in the village, which we saw. Bought dishes, cruets, sauce-dish etc for Canellun, for [£]6/11 in all at Woltons. News of second landing in Majorca: at Puerto Cristo.
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
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