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:

• Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939

Creator

• Graves, Robert, 1895-1985

Subject

• Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
• Authors, English

Language

• eng

Date created

• August 15, 1938

Resource type

• Text

Rights statement

• In Copyright

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

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• diaries

Archival item identifier

• Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-1275

Fonds title

• Robert Graves collection

Fonds identifier

• SC050

Is referenced by

• 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

Date digitized

• July 19, 2002

Transcript

• 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.

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

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/dfma-6827

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