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:
- 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller
- The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.
- Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
- Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-24
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-03-17.html
- July 19, 2002
- 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'.
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