Jan 7 Sat.
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-1-1427
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1939-01-07.html
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
- July 19, 2002
- Jan 7 Sat. Dictionary . Got a swollen knee. Montague arrived. Brought presents from Mr. Mills: a silver sealing-wax (early Georgian)-holder with emerald seal at one end QUATUOR OPTIMA with a cock on a cock of hay beside a water-cock and a match-lock cock? and on the other a silver seal with a prophet, an angel & the name Isaac Low Beer. Also beads; steel earrings for Laura & the marbles from Mary Fuller – rather dull ones. Gave some of them to Lucienne. A cake for Montague with his name on. He had trouble at the customs bringing in a block of mahogany for Dorothy. The Massa Montague legend got added to: he tried to get his buggy with the red spoked wheels past the Frenchie customs & they said 'Massa Montague, what am dose red-spoked wheels? Ain't dey revolutionary contraband?' Massa Montague he said: “ No, no, Mr. Customsman, dem's only red-spoked wheels.”
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