Oct 11 Friday
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-1-232
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-10-11.html
- July 19, 2002
- Oct 11 Friday Two more drafts of Historical Particulars . Training Solomon to walk properly behind. To village: got lemons (few left) & apples from Can Juni. Medora gave me persimmons. Juan brought earth from the bosque . Planted cuttings of hydrangea & that red plant. And again Historical Particulars & alterations to Gulls & Such . In afternoon planted seedbed at Can Torrent. Letter from Barker, satisfactory: mentioned Penguin (6d) Books project: I said I would agree if he wanted his £100 returned, but preferred him to do it at 2/- or 2/6. Money has reached him from Germany £40-£50. Telegram to Sabater. Morley wrote including Private of Buffs poem: & saying that people were coming round to Old Soldier Sahib title, but Faber wanted it merely Soldier Sahib Proof of Epilogue came: went over first part (the part already seen in galley) Ordered things in village (sent in corals, sheepskin, & my silk trousers) on return found Laura tired so we played 66 & she won 76 points on 14 games.
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
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