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June 4 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:
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-1-103
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • June 4 Tuesday. Cabled to Eliot, Pinker; Korda who last night cabled suggesting sending his brother here for a fortnight to work on Lawrence film-script. I said 'all right'. Wrote a long letter explaining the Arnie trouble, explaining copyright position with Eliot, suggesting Soller as a spot for the brother, mentioning Mary P. as typist etc, agreed to any reasonable terms, asking about Claudius schedule, mentioning Laura's impatience for an answer. To sea: stones. To village: Laura's Julie dress at Margarita. Letter from Harrison Smith about serialization. Oleander blossoming. One pear on pear tree: the first. Gelat business not yet settled. At sea today helped Sebastian & maestro's son bring up stones to Posada - donkey & sacks. Photographer took three photos for me - sea; Sebastian Salamo & Paloni and me: same without me. In evening café group also taken, with Gelat & Castor as well as all of us.
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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