Thursday May 9th
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-1-77
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-05-09.html
- July 19, 2002
- Thursday May 9th My escritorio whitewashed. Signed the Harrison Smith contract & sent it off, with letter about collected poems & why not. Hung ladder shawl in hall & newly glazed mirror. Finished Can Torrent arrangements. Slight rain. Very heavy day. On Monday men will start searching for the spring. In afternoon women whitewashing press room. Paid Amador 1.70 a packet for Lucky Strikes (40 packets) Laura painted butterfly design on ex-breadboard. C.F.V. not much. To Palma at 2 [pm]. Bought a mata-Moros in teak10 p , three silhouette pictures 5p[ts] each, a reading-stand from the church of San Pat(?), a Menorcan picture 30[pts], a commoda 60[pts], a banco 80 pts, a large white lace shawl for Laura 75 [pts], two Mallorquin cut glass candlesticks 25 [pts] the pair, all at Margarita Mateu. Beefsteaks at Alhambra & home. Other general shopping. Laura's Progress of Stories proofs came & letter from Constable undertaking to distribute for Seizin Press.
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