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Dec 22 Wednesday.

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-1-1039
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • Dec 22 Wednesday. Marie back. Karl very dead with his cough. Sam got off with great difficulty by Alan: bike, bike ticket, ear apparatus. I went to bed after lunch and forgot to wire Nancy when Sam would arrive. Went over rest of Chapter II; Chapter III; and Chapter IV (again). Also reading The Menace of Japan. Jenny goodbye: on the way to spend Christmas with the Allsop's[,] beer at Ingatestone [,] brought me candied fruit. Chocolates from Marie & Karl. Norman gave Laura a swell nightgown. Bed in dining room. Very bad cough, handkerchief expenditure, sweats. Listened to Laura's telephone talks from the extension at my bedside. Reassuring letter from Mary.
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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