San Bernardo Aug 20th Tuesday.

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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-1-180
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • San Bernardo Aug 20th Tuesday. Made greentomato pickle — 9 big jars, 1 small. 7 litrebottles of juice. This time put in apples, pimiento (green), mint, marjoram, lemon verbena, rosemary, lemon-rind, samphire, sultanas, chutneypowder, pepper, mace, cinnamon, brown sugar, white sugar, ginger, garlic, mustard, onions, vinegar & thegreen tomatoes themselves. Went over Old Soldiers typing. 150 pages of Richards 's original manuscript expanded to 180 pp of text. At this all day. (Laura writing poem for anthology for me to cooperate with.) Went to Son Canals for Bernardo's fiesta. There met his sister & niece from Marseilles and arranged a dance for Saturday, at 8 o'clock at Canellun. Joke about being denounced for pickle-making. Then to Sala, listened to dance-music on the new radio. On return Laura gave Carl further instructions for Sabater. Finished sample of R. up to p 115 to send to Harrison Smith
Technical note
  • 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
Rights
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