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Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
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Robert Graves collection
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Date Digitized:
2002-07-19
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Sat. Nov 14th Laura read me her Troy preface and I made suggestions. Another version of The Manor House . Review by Helen Fletcher, in Time & Tide answered as overleaf. (Previous trouble with Laura). 'Gilfillan' & Norman Honor & Gordon to lunch. Then to Dorland Hall to hear Stephen Spender on Modern Poetry. All about aeroplanes, politics and Spain. Two verses, quoted from Wilfred Owen and Auden. Gloomy, sissy voice. We heard it relayed, the hall being crowded, with gloomy preface by Herbert Read. Boil not yet gone: I spend most of the day in bed. (Orange juice). Read The Inimitable Jeeves Good news from Madrid. Up till 2. listening to Laura's Trojan Afterword, & making suggestions.
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Robert Graves collection
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Date Digitized:
2002-07-19
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Monday Nov 16 To Dentist (Turner-Watson, 59 Wimpole St) who told me teeth weren't responsible for boils, but a good deal of work to be done on them. More work on The Country Mansion . Finished putting clasps on necklaces. Laura bought pewter cigarrette cigarette case 15/- to hold 50. And Christmas present to me of Jaeger dressing gown & silk pyjamas. Distressing noise overhead (party or something) until 3 o'clock. Going over Heathen with Laura.
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Fonds Title:
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Date Digitized:
2002-07-19
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Thursday Dec 3 Jenny problem N.N. came up. saw Freeman interview with Peyton – bad. Put things in J.F's hands. J.F. & Maisie to supper. N.N. all day, and Jenny. Decided N.N. should take flat in London while Jenny went on with dancing. Mrs Simpson crisis started publicly.
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Date Digitized:
2002-07-19
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Enclosure – Time & Tide Review of Antigua, Penny, Puce November 14, 1936; RG's signed letter of response Dear Helen Fletcher, It occurs to me to ask you what you have got. I mean,: besides an admiration for the New Yorker , broad-minded tolerance of Lesbians and the laughter of Little Audrey, realism, and a bold revival of the Victorian 'this is a work of art.' Obviously you have something that you think a lot of greatly prize, or you wouldn't write review so recklessly always. Is it something you have written or are writing, or merely something physical – a musk-gland or whatnot? If the former, I should like to see it. Sincerely yours, Robert Graves
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Date Digitized:
2002-07-19
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Sunday, Nov 29th Alternately checking Honor's last chapter and doing the refugee scenario – 4000 words so far. Fog and rain, but did not notice the weather. All one notices is Sunday, when the traffic quiets down. After supper we walked to the Café Royal. (Rum & coffee) Only 'failures' that tonight there. * Finished Honor's Heathen & sent off to her.
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Date Digitized:
2002-07-19
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Saturday, Dec 3 5 To J.F. for advice Took Jenny to Curzon House and settled up. Then to station & saw her off. Saw Sherrick at Dorchester (with Pamela Boscomb who sympathised with me as Charles ['] brother and had tried to save Peggy from marrying her him ) who was sensible and helpful. Wrote to N.N. a long letter indicating that P.M. had deliberately tried to force a marriage by blackmail. Dinner at Ward & Dorothy: Janet present looking 35 and talking nonsense. Allan from Oxford. We talked Personal Relation scheme until late. Welcome letter from Hillgarth: money has arrived, he has seen the Deyá people, is sending the manuscript, all quiet, food not too bad though bread coarse. And letters from Juan, Anita, Magdalena, Gelat.
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Date Digitized:
2002-07-19
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Friday Dec 24 nd th Another boil injection by J.F. Nancy, most of the day. Finally decided that Jenny must go down to Sutton Veny; and persuaded her. Car fire seen from kitchen window. Sally came, was lovely. Supper at Prada with Richard, N.N., Jenny, Laura. New blue suit and smoke grey-waistcoat. No work for three two days. Jenny did not keep 11 oclock appointment so Laura & I went to Curzon House: thence to [drawing of Appletree Yard] saw W.N. & Margaret Steen. Then Nancy & I fetched Jenny from Dorchester to Betty Colquohoun's flat in the George St Mews. Crowds shouting: “God Save the King from Mr Baldwin.”
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2002-07-19
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Sunday Dec 4 6th. Resting. Wrote to Mrs Winston Churchill about Jenny and to Winston suggesting the the prophetic application of the Ass in The Lion's Skin fable – Baldwin the Ass being the traditional name, like Reynard the Fox, Bruin the Bear. Laura reading Troy proofs. Working over refugee scenario notes. To a News Theatre. No news at all, only cruel Walt Disneys and dismal songs and travelogues. Reaction of dirtiness in this world.
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Enclosure – Clipping “The King Abdicates” [No transcription of this item is available.]
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Date Digitized:
2002-07-19
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Thursday Dec 10th Going over Lawrence material. I suggested title to L.H. “ Confidences by T.E. Lawrence to his biographer etc. ” Wrote twice to Nancy but could not send her information from J.F.(whom I saw in the morning) as to best course as to J's cure. News of abdication from Dorothy over the phone. Strong rumours of Elizabeth as Queen, Mary as Regent. Laura still doing proofs and shopping. She bought me a Dunhill cigarette lighter. To Maisie's to hear wireless. Present: Maisie, J.F., Amy Strachey, Maritza Frischauer, Norman Lloyd Williams, Orford or whatever his name is, a girl called Pam or something who read my hand and noted its great improvement in the last 7 years, Tanny Browne, one Mrs Prior, Laura, myself. Mary Hale and I agreed to stop smoking for a week. I have stopped drinking for a week, accidentally almost.