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Oct 12 Saturday.

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-1-233
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • Oct 12 Saturday. Small points in Old Soldier Sahib (Chinese dollars, Mahdi's forces, Private of Buffs). Cuttings of Can Pabo rose-tree. Hillgarth wrote, would interview Daily Chronicle news-writer & take steps against offence. Letter from Norman to Laura sending book of poems. It rained hard in afternoon: proofs of Epilogue by candle-light. Letter to Michael Roberts about Faber advertizing advertising : to Morley about Old Soldier Sahib hyphen. 66 with Karl & Laura Sala supplied with glass doors & windows. Wrote to Amy Graves Dream. Saw advertised x-shaped celluloid gadgets. Babys Finger Separators for Babies. Keep your Baby's fingers apart: those that swallow them die, those that don't, grow up famous. Mallorquin- Castillian Castilian dictionary bought by Karl for 3 pesetas for us.
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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