July 15th, Monday.

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-1-144
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • July 15th, Monday. Bartolome the Mason fixing gauze door at Canellun entrada : he worked all day at it. Salted green tomatoes. Mended leaky ice-chest. Wired two old plates at Posada & hung up 3. Ordered primus shelf again: and the flat stone arrangement in garden which is being tidied by Antonio Salas. Miguel doing shutters. Wrote to Harrison S. about 'Majorca home' & also about Richards' book. Sea: got nut-crackers for Posada from beach. (General Barcelo arrived with his noisy family.) Made coffee ice, this time weighing out kilo of salt & breaking it fine. A success. Sent off I,C. , & C the G to Miss W.: bound copies, in hope of getting that £100 cheque Wrote to A.B. mentioning Korda's decision. Started poem about liquorice. Cellar-net-doorbeingfixed. Carl's two wires arrived at same time: “Fed up: returning Monday” & “Don't laugh staying till Friday.”
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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