Dec 31 Saturday
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-1-1414
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-12-31.html
- July 19, 2002
- Dec 31 Saturday I went out in the grounds for the first time for a long time, & walked round the lake. it was covered with rotten ice. No snow left. Floods. Dictionary & Ghost . Petit Henri & M me Levrel came with the child of a farm-woman to see the Christmas tree and be given sweets & toys from it. They had never seen one: just as Leonie had never eaten turkey. We had dinner at the Hotel Ouest, all of us, with oxtail soup, pigeon, St Emilion , saddle of mutton, 'Cake' and rice with custard sauce, Grand Marnier & champagne. We all sat chatting with Mademoiselle Perou & her mother & the Post Office women & M. Priour. Subjects were: my twisted ankle & swollen jaw – Dorothy in general – the way Alan orders Bock. We returned to the Chevrie at 10 pm & worked until 12, when we had the girls into the salon to drink Anita's champagne.
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