Feb 20 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-1-364
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1936-02-20.html
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- July 19, 2002
- Feb 20 Thursday Answered L.H.: long letter & also sent off typescript (perhaps for last time) registered. Richards sent alternate passage. Faber sent a wire saying tea kettles to be retained. Wrote to both. Went over A.F.G. points with Laura. Apricot blossom showing, & fig leafing. Gordon sent Stamp Auction report: excused him £2 of the £8 he owes me. Thanked. Started Jacob Faithful after finishing Newton Foster. Karl did poster for Carnaval ball. (Trouble in Cort yesterday: violence by police in dispersing a Left crowd: one man skull damaged, another shot through lungs. Machine guns now posted in the Plaza. Very foolish) To the Baile , Laura in her new old cotton [sketch of dress] dress. Played cards in corner of Sala. Later, gramophone at Can Torrent, & danced.
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
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