Enclosure – Letter from Catherine Nicholson, signed “Kate”
PublicPage from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
- In Collection:
- 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller
- The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.
- Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
- Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-1017
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-11-30_01_enc.html
- July 19, 2002
- Enclosure – Letter from Catherine Nicholson, signed “Kate” This was sent And was meant To be read Only in bed. With a bottle For your throttle Of some medicine And an aspirin To sustain you If this pain you. My apology For this mudlology. Here's my love. And good wishes From this dove And little fishes. [figure – drawing of nested bird] [figure – drawing of a can of sardines] 31. Alma Square. North. West 8. It'is not done, not fare to lick your pl8. [figure – drawing of man licking a dinner plate] What fone , all square. In good st8. [figure – drawing of man bending over a square block of ice cream] 31st picture layer In the T8. [figure – 3 figures seated, waiting with canes while the “31 layers” look at gallery pictures] I'll become a llama fare Near Afghan st8. [figure – drawing of a person in a kaftan handing a llama a 1st prize award] I shouldn't like, to meet a bare With his M8 [figure – drawing of two bears] Just had a nightmare. In bad st8. [figure – drawing of a frightened person in bed] Right some, Answer clare. Wipe your sl8! [figure – drawing of a student showing slate to a teacher] A fish one tone, I caught hyare With live b8. [figure – drawing of two figures, one fishing, the other showing the size of the one-tonne fish] With a gone, I shot a hare on what d8? [figure – drawing of a Diary that says “ DIARY ?:11:37 I shot a hare today” ] The flirty one is not fare Such is f8. [figure – drawing of a dark-haired person's face] This action done, all men fyare The open g8. [figure – drawing of a man planting a sign that says “ BEWARE MAD DOG!” in front of gateposts marked with “ THE ELMS ” and “146 BELL ” ] I must rone, up the stare For I'm l8. Move it one, to that square, Now checkm8 [figure – drawing of two figures playing chess] 'In the sone', – we must be fare Is Germany's st8 [figure – drawing of a face saying “We Germans must have a place in the Colonial sun!” ] Boy thic sone, Thic yer chare, Be moighty nate. [figure – drawing of figure gesturing at a chair under a blazing sun] See you soon, at Alma Square Best love KateXXXXXX.
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