Dec 25 Wednesday. Christmas Day
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-1-307
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-12-25.html
- July 19, 2002
- Dec 25 Wednesday. Christmas Day Juan mended pipe, told us of Anita's forthcoming baby (Sept?) Did upstairs, to help the girls. Catalina has been given Laura 's unsuccessful brown dress: which is succcessful for her. Hodge stayed overnight at Can Torrent – went for a walk with Karl to the Cala. James sent Burns, Beatrix Potter “Jeremy Fisher” & Collier's Musical Tourney ravels and satisfactory personal account of Liddell Hart Quarles' Enchiridion came. McCormacks came: so we were 6 with Karl & Hodge. We had turkey roasted in the oven, aubergine-shape, potatoes roast, mushrooms, plum pudding, Marfil, crackers, turron avellana custard, champagne, coffee. All very good. McCormacks gave Karl & me cigarettes & Laura a breadknife, & all of us apples & gramophone records. They brought, ordered by us, camphor, Laura 's foot-muff, 12 prs of woollen socks for me, Rolls razor blades, 12 knifes knives with walnut handles (6 & 6), also from Maisie jet & silver brooch for me, woollen bed-jacket for Laura, silk hankerchiefs for Karl. Afterwards to Fabrica to give presents. At Can Pep Moso Antonia's sister dying of injections by local doctor. Laura wearing brocade jacket, with green and red brocaded skirt.
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
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