July 29th Monday.
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-1-158
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-07-29.html
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
- July 19, 2002
- July 29th Monday. All morning at Richards getting the Boxer Rising story right from his two accounts & the encyclopedia. In afternoon working over first part of Honor's Life after Laura, then sea, then with Honor again Laura over Molly's [L]ife. Gave Richards [manuscript] to Carl to type. Made lemonade ice. Picked several pounds of blackberries with Carl for jam. (Jars came.) Very hot weather. In evening Laura wore her John Ewen dress with the Honor sleeves & the Robert mother of pearl buttons & buckle. A new type of emboquillado with filter mouthpiece. Laura composing blurb for By Each In Turn. Did Gordon's [L]ife all night with Laura. Walked along road discussing title: finally L. thought of A Mistake Somewhere by 3 Private People . Laura's dress torn coming up grotto. Worked till about 2. Hot wind. Jokes about seeing e to e in spelling of unbudgeable. Mortgage lifted from Canellun after 3 years.
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