Thursday June 27

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-1-126
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • Thursday June 27 Sirocco: all windows shut. To Posada early with stones. Plastering in kitchen & sitting room, and lavabo : cowl over fugons . Three drafts of a poem Never Such Love . To sea, cooler wind. Stones (Karl too) Brought up sponge. Then with Laura & Honor to Posada: Laura ordered shelves for kitchen from Miguel senior, and we also arranged toput in fixed window at back. Fugons being plastered. Arranged for upper rooms to be whitewashed by women. Gordon returned, glad to leave the bickerings of Paguera. Constable's high estimate for Epilogue . Letter from Liddell Hart confirming & explaining things. Answered it (forgot to post). Mss arrived from Bank via Short. Algarrobas turning colour. Apricots from Can Juni. Gelat & Medora Madora visited us and talked for about 2 hours, late. Cold lemonade and wafers. Hot wind continued. Pepe must get permission for boat house.
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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