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Saturday May 11

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-1-79
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • Saturday May 11 Bright weather; boira descended again at 11. Miguel the younger came to saw bore hole in beam for Mesquida second lamp. C.F.V. a little, and playing general post again with new pictures and ornaments until they were quite right. Proof correcting Progress of Stories . To sea with Solomon: dislodged big log from under stones with a stake: put it to be brought up. Letter from Arthur Barker about giving Curtis Brown handling of money in Germany at 5% discount. Gelat brought me Hispano-Americano cheque book. Cut out pictures and pasted all evening. Schwarz gave Laura glass giraffe. Excellent strawberries from garden.
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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