June 2 Tuesday
Page 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-1-467
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1936-06-02.html
- July 19, 2002
- June 2 Tuesday Olive tree nearest the flower-bed being cut down by the two Sebastians, Gelat supervising. Bartolomé and Amador fetched stones from Can Mado (pulling down an old oven there). Another version of poem: To Disown the Records . * Epilogue went off finally. Wrote to Observer asking for Hillgarth's Davy Jones to review; and to Hillgarth. To David discouraging Nazi enthusiasm. To Richards enclosing excellent press-cutting of O.S.S. from U.S.A. (“slow but steady sale”) To Honor, in answer. Laura came with me to village late: for first time for a fortnight or so. Old Sch. says that the stone mortar or holy water stamp is too cheap both for the real thing and for a forgery at 10 pesetas If genuine West Gothic it should be very valuable indeed.
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
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