Aug 10th Saturday
PublicPage 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-1-170
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-08-10.html
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
- July 19, 2002
- Aug 10th Saturday Sala completed today; only windows not in yet. Carl to Palma about passport: which was all right. Got letters in village: Interested one from Harrison Smith — which I answered, proposing terms for Richards $150 ([$]100 + [$]50) advance, 12 1/2[%] to 3000, then 15%: me to do an introduction, payments to be (2/3rd) made to him & also (1/3) direct to me, book to be in Harrison Smith 's hands by December 1. And from Honor. Gordon with Molly again! Mrs Glover gave Honor permission to have another chap. And Gordon at St Peter's Square! Rosa came; fitting of Laura's grand dress with the bows. Got Catalina to come at 2 & do plums greengages which came in great quantity. She came & in 1 hour she & her little boy & I did 12 kilos which I then boiled up into jam — 12 2[–lb] jars & 12 1lb 6 1[–lb] jars & a 1lb pot; & she and the girls did 21 bottles of tomatoes with the powders. Sent 6 various jars to Fábrica. To Soller in the new car: Laura & I, with Gelat & Carl. We had supper at the Marina & it was very peaceful Gelat told us about Maria Fidevera & the doctor, & latter's danger at Hieronymo's hands. Today he bought a radio on approval. We decided to buy a gas–plant. Laura wrote to Honor & I wrote a longish letter to Honor too.
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