Ap 20 Thursday

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-1-1530
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • Ap 20 Thursday First full length bath for 10 months. Walked with Laura in streets & at a fairy antique shop bought silver cloak clasp 60 francs 2 assignat notes 5 francs 2 but blue buttons 8 francs picture of Captain Ross at Prince Regent's bay (1818) 25 francs . * Embarked at 11 am on the Champlain : at lunch conversed with a hotel-installer. Cable from Isabel. Sailed at 6.30 Promenade deck filled with World's Fair packing-cases. Jazz band in bar: homosexual otherwise nice. Stayed up until 2, when we arrived at S'hampton. Calm sea, sun all day. But he was not allowed to embark until 8 am.
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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