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Saturday. May 30

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-1-464
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • Saturday. May 30 To Palma by camion with Karl; not Laura. Bought 100 pesetas. worth of plants — bamboos, roses, papirus papyrus , petunias, and a number of others I don't know the English names of. Planted them in evening with Bartolome & old Sebastian & Karl & Laura. In Palma bought Isabella vases of white with silver lustre vine pattern, 10 pesetas. balustrades for puente , 15 pesetas, (Casas) ship plate in brown faience, 8 pesetas, old English tray 4 pesetas, mediaeval mortar with carved heads 10 pesetas, (Gelabert) woollen tom-tit for Laura's empty cage, took broken green agate pieces to Pomar to be made into silver brooches. Hart wrote asking whether I would agree to a compromise of truncated trade-edition of book, complete one later; wrote saying preferred limited complete edition, more dignified. Put in most of the plants, Bartolome, & Sebn helping.
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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