Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.

In Collection:

• Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939

Creator

• Graves, Robert, 1895-1985

Subject

• Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
• Authors, English

Language

• eng

Date created

• December 6, 1936

Resource type

• Text

Rights statement

• In Copyright

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

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• diaries

Archival item identifier

• Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-656

Fonds title

• Robert Graves collection

Fonds identifier

• SC050

Is referenced by

• Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
• Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1936-12-06.html

Date digitized

• July 19, 2002

Transcript

• Sunday Dec 4 6th. Resting. Wrote to Mrs Winston Churchill about Jenny and to Winston suggesting the the prophetic application of the Ass in The Lion's Skin fable – Baldwin the Ass being the traditional name, like Reynard the Fox, Bruin the Bear. Laura reading Troy proofs. Working over refugee scenario notes. To a News Theatre. No news at all, only cruel Walt Disneys and dismal songs and travelogues. Reaction of dirtiness in this world.

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.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/8ycm-4413

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