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Jan 29 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:
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-1-1077
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • Jan 29 Saturday. Alan & Beryl married today. Papa Pritchard very rude to Alan (not a word) & Mama told her she was throwing her life away. Laura did Chapter 16 last night. I went over it in morning. In afternoon bought artificial flower posies in Kilburn for 6d in a second hand shop. Margaret & Montague & Dorothy Simmonds to supper. Then to Alan & Beryl's party at Adelaide Road. Present: Alan, Beryl, Laura, me, Karl, Montagu & Dorothy, Ward & Dorothy, Harry & Alix, Kenneth Allott & Kumari – he spoke to me not to Laura, a horde of undistinguished friends of Beryl's. It was a bottle party; gramophone music but no dancing. The elements did not mix. Laura suggested the thread game, which was played (a tiny stout dentist German Jewish called Bergman competed) and marbles and pitch & toss, which I organized. (I won 12 halfpennies at pitch & toss.) Dorothy & Montague returned early with us and we talked about the use of sculpture: the making of household gods.
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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