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:
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-1-1135
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by 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

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