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Dec 24 Tuesday.

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-1-306
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • Dec 24 Tuesday. Getting house tidy. McCormacs McCormacks came: at Costa Brava: asked to rent Can Torrent – but wouldn't. Presents from Honor – box for Karl, knife for me, purse for Laura. Also brought plum pudding, & journey-cold-pheasant. Later Hodge came, 20, young, blonde, good head. We played the new records (Spanish) that I bought & the [Louis] Armstong one from Karl and James. Miguel brought John's picture framed with wood cut from knee-space. Warm & very windy. Karl finished typing T.E. I inserted insertions. Now ready for Laura. Letter from James about Honor dreading letters because of fear of us pressing her to come to Posada. Hodge very decent & sensible: said about Claudius had read it while ill – liked it, lot of work: I said: written it to make money – said “yes he thought it read like that” I liked that — first time I have heard it.
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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