March 28 Monday

Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.

In Collection:

• Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939

Creator

• Graves, Robert, 1895-1985

Subject

• Authors, English
• Graves, Robert, 1895-1985

Language

• eng

Date created

• March 28, 1938

Resource type

• Text

Rights statement

• In Copyright

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

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• diaries

Archival item identifier

• Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-1135

Fonds title

• Robert Graves collection

Fonds identifier

• SC050

Is referenced by

• Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
• Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-03-28.html

Date digitized

• July 19, 2002

Transcript

• March 28 Monday Trojan Ending revise, finished Act I * Laura finished World & Ourselves & gave it to A.S. Watt who came for sherry. In Praed St bought Delft (Rouen) cat with blue pictures on its back, white Bristol beads, a long string, with purple centres, a Rouen Delft plate (Ibis & snake), marbles, 14/6 in all and at Mr Mills a steel reliquary for 7/6. Franco takes Fraga. Began a poem about great-grandmothers. In the evening for hours L, Alan & I tried to find words for the inside way of doing things; all good words either stiff or tainted.

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.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/1eg3-tx72