July 31 Friday
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-1-527
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1936-07-31.html
- July 19, 2002
- July 31 Friday Going over Troy, with Laura. Checked first section. Bombs in Palma: five planes. The bombs are 'cannisters' like the sort the Germans used at Fricourt filled with scrap metal; great moral effect, kill many, do little harm to property. After nine o'clock all shops shut except chemists shops. Fascist's guarding the coast at night: from Soller. We have thought of leaving the island because of interrupted communications; decided to wait a week & get Troy & Epilogue done. Palma is a dangerous gauntlet to run. British radio has a Fascist tinge. Government threat to bombard Palma from sea and air until it yields. Bartolome finishing the path: will conclude tomorrow, tidying up and all. Village very quiet. Grapes nearly ripe. Another class called up: 5 boys from the village must go. Pancho is the life and soul of his barracks, where Francisca visits him daily.
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