July 30 Saturday
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-1-1259
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-07-30.html
- July 19, 2002
- July 30 Saturday Norman came: but only for the day and night. (Bank holiday) We went for a ride in the Priour car to Montfort, had tea in the Patisserie (Norman, Laura, me, Dorothy, Alan & Beryl) Not much talk. Norman feels the Catherine situation keenly: she trying to legislate for him about his friends. (Margaret will go to Len & Jane.) But he marries in September. We gambled with ever increasing 100's. Beryl lost 300 francs but Alan won 265 and when we had scaled things up my 60 franc winnings were only 20. The furniture came. At the farm they threshed: 15 people at work feeding the machine, carting away the oats, seconds, chaff, and building a tall haystack around a pole. Modeste went to help and got involved in the semi-sexual fun – tumbled in the hay & hurt in her dignity.
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