Aug 3rd 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-1-530
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1936-08-03.html
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- July 19, 2002
- Aug 3rd Monday Last night we went aboard the 'Grenville' a brand-new destroyer, by tender. Everyone very nice to us. Lieutenant Commander Evans asked me to sign Claudius which he had with him. Made an exception. He invited me to bridge. Saw anti-aircraft guns & various gadgets. Old fashioned chart and sliding rule for course. Women Officers cleared out of cabins for women. Men slept on collision mats with 1 blanket apiece on deck. Refugees from Mahon had been on board since yesterday. Bully beef, ships biscuits, lime juice. Today to Ibiza, to pick up more. Captain & interpreter went ashore to round them up. Here all day. Bathed over the side twice borrowing shorts from Lieut Evans. Got to know Eric Tattersall who had Malta fever, & Sjaenke Waltison, Czech. Monsieur George, the French fossil collector & his numerous family. Lady Shepherd & Mrs Starkie queening it. Slept tonight under 4.7 inch gun. 150 refugees or so.
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
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