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July 12 Monday

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-1-876
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • July 12 Monday Wrote out the prose account of my poems in a fairly final draft. Laura got rooms for Alan & Karl, who arrived & spent the day with us, Karl immediately getting busy on papering drawers repairing & hanging pictures etc. Heavy weather. Oman's History of Art of War in Mid. Ages and Moss's Birth of Middle Ages arrived. Reading Greville again (still). Laura got a ½ Persian kitten (no name yet) and spent most of the day training it. I get easily tired but cannot be idle easily so took peas & gooseberries to my bedroom to top & tail, & shell
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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