July 31 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:
- 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-1-160
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-07-31.html
- July 19, 2002
- July 31 Wednesday. Up at 7.30. Wedding of Francisca the Modista and Juan Gelat's nephew. At new café: nice atmosphere. Bride wore hat: innovation. Magdalena joking. Visit to changed Viña Vieja. In morning more work on Richards . Girls cooked up blackberries with sugar only leaving me to pour out. 5 lb pots & about 16 tiny pots. Success. ex-mustard. Sea: left wristwatch there. Went over Epilogue blurb with Laura & made lemonade-ice. Nice letter from Michael Roberts. Laura cabled would he could come if he liked. Put paper in jelly-jars. Went over James Reeves blurb with Laura. Catalina came (owed 24p[ts].) & had ice, also Isabel, her mother, Josepha & Catalina's boy who also got 1 pes. Then worked with Laura at Epilogue blurb & she did Progress of Stories blurb & I went over it, and then there was a statement to make about Seizin Press Publishing in the Constable list & we nearly fell asleep working out a point, & I went over the proofs of James Reeves' poems & we nearly fell asleep working out a point in one of the blurbs & then it was 3.30 a.m. again.
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