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July 24 Friday. My birthday.

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-1-520
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • July 24 Friday. My birthday. Hot: slept without a sheet. Everyone working normally. Impression is that the Fascist's will surrender, Mallorca being cut off from supplies & the soldiers not being with the Fascist's. Gelat came & gave his account of the D r episode. (He told the Fascist's when they asked for light and said that they might shoot one another. G. said “Then don't shoot so much!” [)] Now it is said that the plane did not drop bombs but was fired at, the anti-aircraft shells falling one in the Captain General's house, one in a barracks, one in the Rambla . Sounds unlikely. Medico proudly showing his door. Bartolomé made a step up by the refuse-pit. Bathed. Saw a warship going to Palma about 5 o'clock. Foreign. A blank day: did Schools . Palma now reported quiet. At night tried to get England on radio but audition bad. Government making progress in south and centre. Dark hibiscus flowering for first time.
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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