Sept 30th Friday.
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-1-1321
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-09-30.html
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- July 19, 2002
- Sept 30th Friday. Sudeten agreement signed – shameful. Despairing letters written on Wednesday arriving from England – Jane has fled to Scotland, everyone in a gas mask or digging trenches. One can see that in the relief in the 'solution' and Hitler's relaxation of terms everyone has forgotten that even his first terms were thought monstrous. Our reputation is high in the village: we alone prophesied there would be no war... Margaret has been given notice by Catherine. Dictionary in morning: all afternoon reading & checking Laura's Aristotle. In evening Swiss Ghost . Did not go out. We hear that Deyá carabineros went to defend Pollensa 'against the Catalans' i.e. French.
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
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