March 8th 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-1-15
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-03-08.html
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
- July 19, 2002
- March 8th Friday Gravel got at last and laid (two years now since it was asked for) as far as the 'cueva' . Laura in bed all day. Focus at last brought from Palma Would have sent it off but mistakes in it to correct. Began trial scene in Antigua ; at length; 12 pp. Bitterly cold wind. Sebastian away with influenza. In bed thought of Lewis Carroll's way of converting one word into another by overlapping words. The change of Graves to Riding by: Graves,ravest, vestige, tiger, germane, maneater, terrible, blear arid Riding written: GRAVESTIGERMANEATERRIBLEARIDING is amusing because If one separates the middle part into whole words they are TIGER, MANE, A, TERRIBLE A. or TIGER, MANEATER, RIB, LEA. Conversely RIDINGRATEDENGRAVES RATE & DEN
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