Aug 6 Thursday.
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-1-533
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1936-08-06.html
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- July 19, 2002
- Aug 6 Thursday. Marseilles at 8 o clock. Consul would lend anyone 3rd class ticket to England. We had hopes of money from bank so would not lend any. Laura had an expired passport so we must keep together. Karl could not leave without a 10 franc stamp, which it cost me 80 francs to get and 3 hours, travelling from direction to direction all over Marseilles. American consul useless. Got £20 (£10 each) from Westminster Bank ). By 7 o'clock (no food) and inhospitable visit to Antonio Vives (secretario's brother[)] had all but English visa to L's passport. Met Garett at American Consul. Things improved (nice English cross-eyed concierge at Consulate told us of a cheap eating house). Got train and borrowed £3 from White (of Menorca). b Bought station food. Carriage to ourselves. Got some sleep, arriving Paris at 8 o clock. Luggage to other station. British consul
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