Sat. Ap 3.
PublicPage from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
- In Collection:
- 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller
- The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.
- Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
- Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-776
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-04-03.html
- July 19, 2002
- Sat. Ap 3. Laura had a bad night: nerves upset her disgestion digestion . She stayed in bed & I stayed in. This morning she reported word for word two nonsense stories she had told me late at night when I was looking after her, & a poem. He, she, who – Who weeps last Laughs last. It tried to be a lot of islands And then pretended to talk Trojan. Saying “Myrga por ora”. I said: "Do not talk nonsense. You are just pretending to talk Trojan." Then it said “Myrga pee.” (The best was: ) "Would you like to hear a story : There were all the old maypoles, One for every year. I could not see a new one for this year. Then from the left came two tall people Dancing in among. Why two tall people? No, not two tall people but one whole person Dancing in among. And this is why they did not notice That there was no maypole For the new year." She stayed in bed all day. No work. Seventy hands of 66 at night. Watt has fixed Lawrence book in United States
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