Friday Nov 6th
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-1-625
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1936-11-06.html
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- July 19, 2002
- Friday Nov 6th Laura slept till 12 or so. I wrote letters and things. To Caledonian market. Bought large patchwork quilt £2, old family teapot 1/-, Wedgewood coffee pot 2/-, 18 more marbles at 1d each, a number of lace bobbins with beads, – 3/9d in all, a pinchbeck clasp 5/- Sent Lucie clasp & the best ivory lace bobbins complete with beads, but first taking enough beads from the bobbins to make a necklace, which I did on dental floss with a 6d clasp. Supper at Dinner at Ward and Dorothy L, K, I and A Chitty the architect of many a corset factory and penguin pool. Walked home all the way down Primrose Hill. 40 minutes.
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
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