Aug 15 Saturday Monday Assumption
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-1-1275
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-08-15.html
- July 19, 2002
- Aug 15 Saturday Monday Assumption This is the day on which Hitler is supposed to be invading Czechoslovakia and there has been a rush of gold-hoarding. Anyhow a bad day. Cold & cross. Anita gave us some greengages for jam, so I had to make it as they were going bad; over a wood fire in my bedroom. Dorothy helping; but then more talk with Laura & Montague – he has almost decided to go out & seek his sexual fortune – so she stopped & the jam caught and I didn't put enough sugar & boiled up again with jello and not enough jars :about 17 pounds of it – Then Alan got cross because Laura arranged two chairs as if in consultation with his own in the staircase room he is using as a study, with a bolster upright in his, and Montague hanging about like a skeleton at a feast. Laura doing Rimbaud – called me in. – A widow from Boisgervilly called, for a job at the beginning of September Everyone crossly peeling mushrooms. We sat around the fire in the dining-room talking painstakingly at night; my back aching with the low chairs. My dolly-washer arrived from England.
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