March 17th Sunday

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-1-24
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • March 17th Sunday Spent the morning with great difficulty writing the four letters, in each case pleading flu for its inadequacy. Nice weather again. Chief excitement: Pepe's much too high estimate for work at Salerosa for the McCormacks; Laura had to interview Pepe for them. They came to supper. Mr McCormack talking about an after life said: “I think — I hope — that there's something after. I shouldn't like to think that we're only animals.” Mrs.McCormack said: “Oh but we're nice animals.” She believes in total extinction. In a Life of Hannah More I found a sentence which puzzled me...["]Out of one hundred and eight children in another parish, no one knew who made them.["] From the general context I eventually made out that the answer was 'God'.
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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