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Dec 31 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:
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-1-1048
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • Dec 31 Friday. Preparing all day for New Year's Eve party. Georgian corkscrew from Karl & Marie. Did Chapter XXI & XXII Belisarius . Visited Jenny who has flu. Len & Jane to supper: Len arguing with Laura (about his general views on visual truth) and speaking of John as a traditionalist in rather a derogatory way. Afterwards Gordon Honor & Gordon – who have had their car stolen – Montague & Dorothy Simmonds, Alan & Beryl, Maisie, Sally & Richard, (Len & Jane still) James & Mary, Wilfred Roberts & one Jane Rendall (uninvited). Gramophone music, talk, champagne at midnight. A whole bottle of Domecq brandy drunk, not much else. Sandwiches of ham & pimiento & cream cheese with fig. Then clearing away mess. Schwarz sent me a gold coin of Justinian.
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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