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Dec 25, Saturday Christmas.

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-1-1042
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • Dec 25, Saturday Christmas. After a bad night, still not well – fits of weakness & sweating, but on my feet. Chapter IX & X Belisarius . Laura doing letter book . The worst fog ever. Lots of Christmas cards and two bottles of ink from Sam. Christmas lunch: Laura, Alan, Karl, Marie, I. Christmas pudding brandy butter, crackers, chicken, wine. Heard the King on the wireless. Jenny alone in the ladies' wing at Ingatestone, no other ladies present. Letter from Short: bad air-raid on Dec 7th, hardships in Palma, worse in villages.
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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