Friday June 28
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-1-127
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-06-28.html
- July 19, 2002
- Friday June 28 No clouds today & some breeze (read that Tuesday was the hottest night ever recorded in England (88 degrees at Brighton)). Drinking no alcohol but lots of water feel very well. Fourth draft of Never Such Love . Letter to Eddie Marsh about Hawthornden cheque, and to Saward about pensions; Rosa brought me natural coloured trousers. Her bill since Jan. is 367 pesetas: little. To Posada: putting down guides for tiles in sitting room, white plastering entrada , plastering comedor , plastering kitchen. Ordered marco for kitchen window & shelves for dispensa despensa (Francisco, both) Paid Estanco 100 p[ts] on a/c. Arranged with Pepe to work at Posada tomorrow laying stones. To sea: stones. Swam with Carl & Mary to swallow rock & round home non-stop by the headland. Two canoes out, for the first time. Put mss in attic. Men repairing road, Gordon says. Laura wrote to Constable giving Seizin list – Progress of Stories ; Three People, Three Stories , James's Poems ; Moon's no Fool . Carl cries off Schwarz translation. Posted letter to Constable 1 a.m. (At 10 pm angry visit to Isabel's mother about Josepha's insolence)
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