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Aug 6 Tuesday. Gelat's Birthday.

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-1-166
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • Aug 6 Tuesday. Gelat's Birthday. Checked typing of Richards all morning. In afternoon sea with Karl: found a few pebbles. (Sea warmer than air, cloudy day) Started a poem: no use I think. To village with Laura & Carl (first time for a long time) & Schwarz to whom gave pot of blackberry & apple jelly. Child lost an eye, from playing ballon San Juan . Third child this year to lose an eye (11 years, 11 years, 5 years — detonator, stone thrown, ball on elastic.) Laura visited Carmen. I cross–copied Fantasia , 2 copies (3 hours). One copy to John [Aldridge] .
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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