Aug 25 Thursday
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-1-1285
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-08-25.html
- July 19, 2002
- Aug 25 Thursday Some sun. Laura completed Men scenario , working with David Bought a 10 pound goose for 50 francs from Bécault (?) at the farm by the mill. Calvados there with the bee-man, the farmer. Also saw the goose butchered with a clasp knife. Worked all morning on Dictionary . Anita on the phone says that someone, just returned from Deyá (Ferrer?) says that the Cura was behind Gelat trouble & tried to send him to Coventry. Bernardo resigned mayorally in protest and a petition got up in G's favour by young Juan was signed by all the village. Laura has given David a sentence to memorize for voice-production: 'The Bull is a Benighted Beast, Fierce but Fine – who knows his meaning.' Worked afternoon & night at Dictionary .
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
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