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July 10 Friday 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:
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-1-874
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • July 10 Friday Saturday We have a maid called Alice Mace. With her help the house was tidied & everything is now settled. L insisted on my sleeping staying in bed all day. Rewrote Pygmalion to Galatea & wrote another poem about them. Marble games with Harry in evening – ( tiddlewink game); and taking by hopping (one's own & others) with houghing : who survives with most wins. Harry killed a rabbit with a stick, a small one, & felt bad about it. Read a Wodehouse golfing book: Heart of a Goof . Laura put up new curtains. My bed-workroom is pleasant now with all my things: British Columbia gloves, Solomon picture, map of Spain, 'pool near school' on wall; work-table lined with brown paper & my Swiss pewter tray-plate & marble (Caracallas baths) paper weight and pewter cigarette case, & my refugee toys – Jens Jenson pin cushion, french dower trunk lock & key, the N.N. dogs etc. My patchwork quilt (the triangle-cut one) on my bed. My ash chair with the rush bottom.
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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