April 1 Monday.
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-1-39
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-04-01.html
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- July 19, 2002
- April 1 Monday. To Palma, early. Dentist 9.3O, charged 4O [pts] for 3 visits. Collected pension. Incident of bumbling army-officer with green & red reg. tie waiting for pension saying to officer no. 2 “I see you belong to my old corps.” This no. 2 was the sort of officer one would draw if only allowed to draw in parallels and oblongs. Bumbler was colour-blind. I had long before registered 'Scots Guards', so bumbler had to apologise, he was only Sherwood Foresters. The man was called Major Fotheringay—Hannibal as far as I could hear. Long wait at Banco March. Laura & Karl and Isabel did all general shopping. Bought typewriter 800 pts, less 375 for Laura 's old typewriter. Bought Laura early 19th century emerald and diamond ring for 190 pts. At Casas bought brazier shovel for Fábrica: theirs had been broken for the last six years — family joke. Also old glass bottle, Hapsburg seal for 2 pts. and 3 blue plates 3 pts each. Casas threw in an old wooden-stand suitable for my Luna cannon ball. Lunch Mallorca. Coffee and cream éclairs at Schwarz & Strenge's. Schwarz gave me a sesterce of Claudius with Civil Crown and OB Cives Servatos. In recognition gave them the blue plates. Gave Focus to Esperanza. Ball for Francisquito. Home at 6.30. Notice of 4800 dollars on way to Hispano Bank and letter from Middleditch giving authority to collect German money but counselling against smuggling. Alice had her kittens, all black, three, in bush by electric light post.
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