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Jan 28 Thursday

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-1-711
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • Jan 28 Thursday First really cold day. Laura Injection & to dentist. Epilogue . Laura's letter came, done. 500 copies for 3 guineas. Cooks men came & took luggour stuff – 2 chairs, 2 tables, crate of china, big box of books silver etc, 2 pictures. Len to lunch: talk about general situation & his plans for a comedy about a Lord Mayor & dance bands. Harold took us in a taxi to his Wandsworth ? house in a quite nice housing scheme like a college. Olive & he gave us a nice good supper and told us, among other things, of Mary B. telling them at the shop about Cyril Clarke being in love with her; & Geoffrey Grigson praising L. saying she was the best of the lot but he was afraid of writing about her for fear of saying the wrong thing. Epilogue .
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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