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Jan 27 Wednesday.

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-1-710
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • Jan 27 Wednesday. Letter from Miss Wright asking for a job. (Korda's original no 1 secretary returning). Laura discussed dictionary with Watt on phone. Epilogue . Alix & Harry to lunch. Then Mary Hale's mother & Cathleen packed up Mary's things. Then shopping at Selfridge's – knives, garden things, etc for Deyá. Saw Gordon S. himself with gold pencil & top hat & dazed look. Then sherry party at J.F.'s after buying a cand chandelier (37/6) Amabel & Clough Williams Ellis, Ruth Batchelor-Taylor (“Mrs Simpson”) Dick Freeman, Tanny, etc. Then Kitty (to whom a Georgian mirror for birthday present) Douglas West back to supper & Maisie: goodbye to two former. Then packed books, silver, patchwork rugs etc in big box. All Deyá stuff ready for Cook's men tomorrow.
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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