Modernism and Post-War Literature Collection
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The Modernism and Post-War Literature Collection is comprised of works created by authors associated with modernism, a literary movement with contested dates, but largely regarded as taking place between 1910 and 1940. Authors featured here include Mary Butts (1890-1937), Robert Graves (1895-1985), James Joyce (1882-1941), Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), and Ezra Pound (1885-1972), as well as writers who produced work following WWII, such as Aidan Higgins (1927-2015), identified as late modernists or influenced by modernism.
Intellectuals and artists affiliated with parallel movements in other disciplines during the same period, such as modern art, are also found in this collection, as seen in the correspondence of Herbert Read (1893-1968) and photography of Gisèle Freund (1908-2000).
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Works (2530)
1801. Dec 19 Monday.
- Title:
- Dec 19 Monday.
- Description:
- Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
- Subject:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985 and Authors, English
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1938-12-19
- Rights Statement:
- In Copyright
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- 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:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- diaries
- Archival Item Identifier:
- Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-1401
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection and Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-12-19.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Dec 19 Monday. Bitter weather, East wind, frozen lakes, struggle to keep everyone warm. Dictionary ; much interrupted by chores. Alix sent plum pudding. In village filled in Carte D'Identité forms and got photographed – Last time the left not the right profile was taken.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1802. Dec 20 Tuesday.
- Title:
- Dec 20 Tuesday.
- Description:
- Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
- Subject:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985 and Authors, English
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1938-12-20
- Rights Statement:
- In Copyright
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- 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:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- diaries
- Archival Item Identifier:
- Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-1402
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection and Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-12-20.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Dec 20 Tuesday. The E. wind fell in the afternoon, and Laura who had been in bed all day got up, feeling better. I did little all day beyond Dictionary but write two letters – to Dr. Dunn & to L.H. Then tear them up & rewrite them. 3 hours each. Application for Identity cards went in: 100 francs each for us, as authors, instead of 500 fr. * Report that there is an unofficial truce in Spain on all fronts: with football matches
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1803. Enclosure – Rough draft of letter to Louis MacNeice from RG
- Title:
- Enclosure – Rough draft of letter to Louis MacNeice from RG
- Description:
- Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
- Subject:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985 and Authors, English
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1938-12-20
- Rights Statement:
- In Copyright
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- 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:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- diaries
- Archival Item Identifier:
- Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-1402
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-12-20_enc.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Enclosure – Rough draft of letter to Louis MacNeice from RG Dear Mr. MacNeice, Your review in the Listener : parts of it coherent, parts incoherent. I feel that their professed concern with exclusively 'poetic meaning' is, on analysis, a self-deception. Either you feel it is so, or else you have analyzed it as so: but make up your mind. If analysis, the process should be demonstrated; if mere feeling, then do some thinking to test it. What meaning would you have for a poem but poetic meaning? Political? Literary? Economic? What other meaning would you profess as a poet even if unable to keep your poems as clean (in the agricultural sense) as you would wish? Do you trust Science as supplying meaning to a poem where poetic meaning is absent (you rate me for mistrusting science)? Yes, I have a horror of Otherness: as opposed to Intrinsicality. As a poet you too should have this horror: then your poems might be frightened into some centrality. The schizophreniac schizophrenic imagines that he is torn into two or more selves: but to see the present drawing away as a separate world from the temporarily co-existent past is not schizophrenia but critical observation. Your second sentence does not make sense: a carelessness of proof correcting, I think. I do not write like a metaphysician; and are not metaphysics impure? The history of metaphysicians is very impure. The notion of poems as parthenogenetic is at least preferable to that of poems born in sodomy, as is the case of some of your contemporaries' work; but I do not see that the sexual metaphor holds. Nor did I ever advocate 'purity' of poetry in the sense you suggest: I imagine that this is an invention designed to excuse the pleasantly disordered 'very-human' [figure – handwritten cross] life that you live yourself. It is true that poetry seems to me no longer poetry in a present real sense that is mere descriptive or evocative of physical affect; but all words have a physical history which cannot be denied. The choice is not between poems written in vacus and poems written in fucus , but between poems written in relation that carry their own world with them with faith in poetry and poems that are patched out of old worlds. written with faith or faithfulness in other things. What surprises me about The view of Laura Riding's poems, which you seem to share with Julian Symonds and one or two others that it is the Times Lit. Supp. and W.H. Auden as rarefied in the and metaphysical sense is a that you do not seem to have read them is surprising one to me. as blind as ungrateful. You might be Are you sure that It is almost as if you do not meant someone else — 'Æ' Russell or someone Santayanaor the like — for nothing rarified metaphysical language is the avoidance of meaning by constan pulling piling the weight of responsibility for significance on the broad shoulders etc etc
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1804. Enclosure – Rough draft of letter to Louis MacNeice from RG
- Title:
- Enclosure – Rough draft of letter to Louis MacNeice from RG
- Description:
- Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
- Subject:
- Authors, English and Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1938-12-20
- Rights Statement:
- In Copyright
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- 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:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- diaries
- Archival Item Identifier:
- Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-1402
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection and Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-12-20_enc.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Enclosure – Rough draft of letter to Louis MacNeice from RG Dear Mr. MacNeice, Your review in the Listener : parts of it coherent, parts incoherent. I feel that their professed concern with exclusively 'poetic meaning' is, on analysis, a self-deception. Either you feel it is so, or else you have analyzed it as so: but make up your mind. If analysis, the process should be demonstrated; if mere feeling, then do some thinking to test it. What meaning would you have for a poem but poetic meaning? Political? Literary? Economic? What other meaning would you profess as a poet even if unable to keep your poems as clean (in the agricultural sense) as you would wish? Do you trust Science as supplying meaning to a poem where poetic meaning is absent (you rate me for mistrusting science)? Yes, I have a horror of Otherness: as opposed to Intrinsicality. As a poet you too should have this horror: then your poems might be frightened into some centrality. The schizophreniac schizophrenic imagines that he is torn into two or more selves: but to see the present drawing away as a separate world from the temporarily co-existent past is not schizophrenia but critical observation. Your second sentence does not make sense: a carelessness of proof correcting, I think. I do not write like a metaphysician; and are not metaphysics impure? The history of metaphysicians is very impure. The notion of poems as parthenogenetic is at least preferable to that of poems born in sodomy, as is the case of some of your contemporaries' work; but I do not see that the sexual metaphor holds. Nor did I ever advocate 'purity' of poetry in the sense you suggest: I imagine that this is an invention designed to excuse the pleasantly disordered 'very-human' [figure – handwritten cross] life that you live yourself. It is true that poetry seems to me no longer poetry in a present real sense that is mere descriptive or evocative of physical affect; but all words have a physical history which cannot be denied. The choice is not between poems written in vacus and poems written in fucus , but between poems written in relation that carry their own world with them with faith in poetry and poems that are patched out of old worlds. written with faith or faithfulness in other things. What surprises me about The view of Laura Riding's poems, which you seem to share with Julian Symonds and one or two others that it is the Times Lit. Supp. and W.H. Auden as rarefied in the and metaphysical sense is a that you do not seem to have read them is surprising one to me. as blind as ungrateful. You might be Are you sure that It is almost as if you do not meant someone else — 'Æ' Russell or someone Santayanaor the like — for nothing rarified metaphysical language is the avoidance of meaning by constan pulling piling the weight of responsibility for significance on the broad shoulders etc etc
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1805. Enclosure – Rough draft of letter to Louis MacNeice from RG
- Title:
- Enclosure – Rough draft of letter to Louis MacNeice from RG
- Description:
- Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
- Subject:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985 and Authors, English
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1938-12-20
- Rights Statement:
- In Copyright
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- 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:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- diaries
- Archival Item Identifier:
- Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-1402
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection and Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-12-20_enc.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Enclosure – Rough draft of letter to Louis MacNeice from RG Dear Mr. MacNeice, Your review in the Listener : parts of it coherent, parts incoherent. I feel that their professed concern with exclusively 'poetic meaning' is, on analysis, a self-deception. Either you feel it is so, or else you have analyzed it as so: but make up your mind. If analysis, the process should be demonstrated; if mere feeling, then do some thinking to test it. What meaning would you have for a poem but poetic meaning? Political? Literary? Economic? What other meaning would you profess as a poet even if unable to keep your poems as clean (in the agricultural sense) as you would wish? Do you trust Science as supplying meaning to a poem where poetic meaning is absent (you rate me for mistrusting science)? Yes, I have a horror of Otherness: as opposed to Intrinsicality. As a poet you too should have this horror: then your poems might be frightened into some centrality. The schizophreniac schizophrenic imagines that he is torn into two or more selves: but to see the present drawing away as a separate world from the temporarily co-existent past is not schizophrenia but critical observation. Your second sentence does not make sense: a carelessness of proof correcting, I think. I do not write like a metaphysician; and are not metaphysics impure? The history of metaphysicians is very impure. The notion of poems as parthenogenetic is at least preferable to that of poems born in sodomy, as is the case of some of your contemporaries' work; but I do not see that the sexual metaphor holds. Nor did I ever advocate 'purity' of poetry in the sense you suggest: I imagine that this is an invention designed to excuse the pleasantly disordered 'very-human' [figure – handwritten cross] life that you live yourself. It is true that poetry seems to me no longer poetry in a present real sense that is mere descriptive or evocative of physical affect; but all words have a physical history which cannot be denied. The choice is not between poems written in vacus and poems written in fucus , but between poems written in relation that carry their own world with them with faith in poetry and poems that are patched out of old worlds. written with faith or faithfulness in other things. What surprises me about The view of Laura Riding's poems, which you seem to share with Julian Symonds and one or two others that it is the Times Lit. Supp. and W.H. Auden as rarefied in the and metaphysical sense is a that you do not seem to have read them is surprising one to me. as blind as ungrateful. You might be Are you sure that It is almost as if you do not meant someone else — 'Æ' Russell or someone Santayanaor the like — for nothing rarified metaphysical language is the avoidance of meaning by constan pulling piling the weight of responsibility for significance on the broad shoulders etc etc
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1806. Dec 21 Wed.
- Title:
- Dec 21 Wed.
- Description:
- Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
- Subject:
- Authors, English and Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1938-12-21
- Rights Statement:
- In Copyright
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- 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:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- diaries
- Archival Item Identifier:
- Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-1403
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-12-21.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Dec 21 Wed. When we woke up, there was an inch of snow. By evening there was 6. Dictionary : all rest of day struggling with a chill and keeping fires. * Lawrence book at last published in United States of America
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1807. Dec 22 Thursday
- Title:
- Dec 22 Thursday
- Description:
- Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
- Subject:
- Authors, English and Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1938-12-22
- Rights Statement:
- In Copyright
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- 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:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- diaries
- Archival Item Identifier:
- Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-1404
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection and Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-12-22.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Dec 22 Thursday Dictionary. Marie has a bad chest & went to bed. Alan & I found a M me Loyard in the village, up a high dark staircase of the oldest house in Montauban. Presents from Karl disguised as a book – earrings for Laura, a blue tie for me.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1808. Dec 23. Friday.
- Title:
- Dec 23. Friday.
- Description:
- Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
- Subject:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985 and Authors, English
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1938-12-23
- Rights Statement:
- In Copyright
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- 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:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- diaries
- Archival Item Identifier:
- Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-1405
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection and Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-12-23.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Dec 23. Friday. Was to have gone to Rennes but it was snowing again so we did not go. Marie in bed. Instead a car to Montauban in evening & bought Christmas things for tree. Thaw then frost. Housework yesterday & today almost no work. In evening Leonie returned – not well but nice to have her. Franco starts new offensive.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1809. Letter from E.M. Forster to Alec Randall, December 23, 1938
- Title:
- Letter from E.M. Forster to Alec Randall, December 23, 1938
- Description:
- Part of a collection of letters written by E.M. Forster to Sir Alec Randall. They concern, firstly, his trip to Rumania, where he stayed with the Randalls; a tour in France in 1928; and his journey home. Later letters include references to such literary people as Herbert Read, Harold Monro and T.S. Eliot, plus a mention of reading James Joyce's "Ulysses". He also refers to his visit to Africa and his sentiments about the Spanish Civil War and W.W.II. Most of the later letters are signed "Morgan". E. M. Forster was born in London. He is principally known as a novelist and was associated with the Bloomsbury Group, which included Virginia Woolf. Among his best known works are "A Room With A View" (1911) and "A Passage To India" (1924). Many of his novels have been dramatized. He also wrote short stories, drama, non-fiction and criticism. He died at King's College, Cambridge, where he had resided since the mid 1940s. His friend, Sir Alec Randall was with the British legation in Bucharest, Rumania, and was later appointed to serve in Rome.
- Subject:
- Authors, English, Literature, Modern, Randall, Alec, 1892-, Ambassadors, Authors, English--Correspondence, Novelists, Diplomatic and consular service, Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970, Modernism (Literature), Authors, Novelists, English, and Diplomats
- Creator:
- Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970
- Contributor:
- Randall, Alec, 1892-
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1938-12-23
- Rights Statement:
- In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
- License:
- Use of this material is permitted for research and private study purposes only. For all other uses, contact University of Victoria Special Collections and University Archives.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- Identifier:
- EMF 20-21
- Extent:
- 2 pages ; 17.7 x 22.7 cm
- Geographic Coverage:
- England--Abinger Hammer
- Coordinates:
- 51.2166, -0.4329
- Additional Physical Characteristics:
- Handwritten in black ink.
- Physical Repository:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- E.M. Forester Collection
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- correspondence and letters (correspondence)
- Archival Item Identifier:
- Accession Number: 1976-003
- Fonds Title:
- E. M. Forster collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC099
- Is_referenced_by:
- Special Collections finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/e-m-forster-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2021-10-22
- Technical Note:
- Scanned on Epson Expression 10000XL at 600 DPI, images cropped & resized for Vault to be under 35MB by PD. Metadata by SC.
1810. Dec 24 Saturday Christmas Eve.
- Title:
- Dec 24 Saturday Christmas Eve.
- Description:
- Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
- Subject:
- Authors, English and Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1938-12-24
- Rights Statement:
- In Copyright
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- 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:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- diaries
- Archival Item Identifier:
- Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-1406
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection and Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-12-24.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Dec 24 Saturday Christmas Eve. Marie still ill. Léonie able to do one-handed jobs. In the morning Alan & Dorothy dug up Christmas tree & dressed it. They got a huge bunch of mistletoe, and some holly & we decorated the Salon. We also had a yule-log cake with Vive la Chevrie on it. I mulled claret and we had our presents after supper. Chief ones were: R. to Laura: 3 Ashantee Ashanti gold-weights. to Alan: 6 agate buttons to Dorothy enamel cloak clasp & Poems to Beryl cameo bracelet to self: steel brooch L to Alan: waistcoat & cigarettes to Dorothy opal ring & jacket to Beryl red brooch & stockings to Robert lustre jug Dorothy to Laura: old English brass tray to Robert: cloisonné Turkish coffee cup. Beryl & Alan to Laura: pinchbeck clasps with coral. Lots of small presents Jokes: Laura reads out “Sir Humphrey Clifford is about to going to will marry when he is 84.” Beryl: How old is he now? [_________________________________] Me: frappe, frappe ! Alan: Qui là . Me: Pernod Alan: Pernod lequel ? Me: Père Noel Noêl
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.