Nov 4 Friday

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-1-1356
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • Nov 4 Friday Laura up to 4.30 last night, 3 the night before, 3 night before. Dorothy, Beryl, Alan to Rennes. Dorothy to buy carving wood – no success. The others bought household things – took in my watch, Laura's green Majorcan brooch & my Marnius Aquellius brooch to repair. Copied out and revised dictionary lists. Marie polishing all the floors – first time since we came here that this was really well done – & brass & windows also cleaned. Went to Montauban in the car that had brought Dorothy's carving bench – both drunk. The driver made very cautious & correct by drink his copain gloriously elevated. Ordered new mattress & pillows. Accounts: an hour spent over tracing 40 franc deficit in the Rennes buyings.
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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