July 28 Sunday.

Public

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-1-157
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • July 28 Sunday. Finished Richards first chapter inserts. Wrote to Margaret Russell (£5); Korda about L & A sequences if he needed them. To A.L. thanking for letter & saying perhaps more money to come from France, & would not contribute to quinquagint. To Frank Morley asking for contract. Various small bills. To sea. Very hot. All afternoon then on Gordon. [Heinrich] Schliemann's Troy came, and 7 Pillars . Karl typed as far in Schw'sAlmost Forgotten Places as the translation had gone before it was taken to Thelen. Finished Gordon's Life. Went over typescript of Schw. It makes 22 pp so far – will reach about 200. To village at 9.15 after supper of chops, tomatoes & beetroot (Karl & me). Saw Gelat: ordered jars for jam, sugar etc.
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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