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Saturday Sept 14

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-1-205
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • Saturday Sept 14 Cool & sunny. It was a steady soak yesterday evening and night. Clouded over later. Part of Almost Forgotten Times [Chapter] XXVI Letter from Liddell Hart approving plan, but not sure about time-factor Answered at length, “soon rather than later.” I estimated material at 50,000 words (with notes & references to letters). Walk along road., General's son-in-law came & gave advice about plants. Also the Hutchinsons who talked till suppertime. The Estancos now sell a smokable Virginia cigarette, at 2 pesetas, in cellophane. The first serious step against the smuggling trade. Gelat came: & told us the comic story of how the Doctor, Bartolomé, the Sa Pedrissa colono & young Estanco testified: none was able to make a statement worth anything. The Dr could not even sign his name to his declaration. The Judge's representative had been primed, & if no dirty work is done the interdict will be quashed: but the case will be won.
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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