Dec 20th 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-1-302
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-12-20.html
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
- July 19, 2002
- Dec 20th Friday. To Palma at 10.30. Bought presents for Catalina (ours) Margarita, Margarita modista , Rosa, Anita & Magdalena, Juan, Madora, Gelat, Francisco, Antonia of the Café, Maria de Sa Font Fresc, Maria Fidavera, Francisquita (Messiana) etc. For ourselves silver mass-bell (300 years old) for table. Laura red morocoo slippers, amber cigarette holder, 4 gold buttons for brocade dress. Strenge , 4711 soap & Schwarz a punch-bowl. Schwarz gave Laura a Ferdinand VI gold duro on chain & me a French religious art calendar. Focus promised for Monday. Home at 10 o'clock. O.S.S off. Worked till 3 on Old Soldier Sahib which I sent off to America, with corrections for Richards who raised practically no objection to changes. Long letter to Liddell Hart with 17 references in “margin”. His questionnaire & postscript to his other book arrived. Honor can't come for 6 months at least. Nice letter from Lucie with Victorian ribbon for Laura. Laura writing to Hodge.
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