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Oct 3 Monday

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-1-1324
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • Oct 3 Monday Gale: my back has been aching a lot, so [to]day I abstained as far as I could from heavy housework. Reading Ghost through and making notes for future reference – having got out of touch with it. We no Leonie now does the wash in a big suction-boiler in the big kitchen fireplace. Laura wrote a poem, these last two days, ' When the Skies Part . " ' She is doing also: Dictionary specimen, Greeks & Trojans , Aristotle , a children's story, Damage with Alan. And never goes out of the house.
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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