Oct 11 Monday.

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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-1-967
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • Oct 11 Monday. To London by early train with Alix. Meet of foxhounds at bus: M.F.H, 2 huntsmen, whipper in, hounds. 'Get from under that bus, Galloway': 'Drawing the coverts at Malquoits' To 5 Nottingham St. Alan took us round houses in Hampstead: no use. [*] Norman, Alan, Audrey Beecham, Honor, L & I lunch at Café Royal. [*] Called on Tanny Brown North Way1 region: better. Chance meeting with Jenny & Peggy Hamilton in Baker St. Maisie back from Japan: dissociated Japanese people from army. Bought £3.10/- a 16th Century Spanish chest with drawers inlaid ivory hunting scenes (Mills) & a trade-bead necklace thrown in. Coffee at Prince Oysters at Princes (L, Alan & I). Supper at Canuto's with Maisie (who told of the visit to Her & His Excellency Tweedsmuir.) Home: arrived 11.12. Met by H in a car & dressing gown punctually at Cranleigh
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.
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