June 2 Sunday
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-1-101
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-06-02.html
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- July 19, 2002
- June 2 Sunday Claudius Film Version all morning. Afternoon: bullfight. Lalanda, Barrera, Ortega: all at their best. Each corto rabo y orejas in at least one bull. Only mar: a puntillero who couldn't finish off a horse trying several times & distracting attention. Ortega, whistled at for the dullness of his performance with the first bull , a difficult one, did some particular stunts in the second - turning the bull in a semicircle (kneeling) with a hand on its horns ending up with his back to the bull 2 yards away. Remarkable pic-ing by Ortega's picador. Letter from an Express man, whom I put off, from John Graves, Ros, Amy Graves and Eliot, saying he had forwarded my letter to Arnie L.
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
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