Oct 21 Friday.

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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-1-1342
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • Oct 21 Friday. Dictionary . A man with a circular saw came & sawed 6 cords, i.e. 18 cubic metres of wood for us for 110 francs. First we had to clear out the planks from the shed. Laura has a bad cold but goes on working. We bought 20pounds of quinces and 6 kilos of sugar and made 30 pounds of jam & membrillo . I had Dorothy, David Beryl & Alan helping me in the salon, I peeled, the others sliced and we all stirred in turn. It took from 10 pm to 1 am & we read Jack Shephard in turns. I improved remedy invented recipe First wipe the quinces, then peel & core them: boil up peel & core separately and in a little water and then squeeze off liquor adding to flesh cut in pieces & put in a little water: then as usual with jam. But the more resistant pieces after some boiling we put separately to boil and when we with sugar then squeezed them separatel into a thick paste which we went on stirring until it began blowing steam bubbles. This was the membrillo .
Technical note
  • 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
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