March 27 Wednesday

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-1-34
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • March 27 Wednesday Hot. First day of straw-hats & sun-glasses. Went over typed fifth chapter of Antigua . Gelat, Amador, Sebastian, Miguel the carpenter worked all day on putting up wooden horizontals of vine-arbour. I blackpainted Salamó's kennel, which the girls had whitewashed inside. Went with him to Calabat to pay for a chicken (8.5O pts at 2pts the tercia) and order another for tomorrow. Amador started to creosote the arbour. Gelat brought his account. 4882 pesetas for 4 months including wages, mortgage payments, carpenters, Salamo, patent boiler, & stove. 2 more Focus to Honor. Bath. Cura may evacuate Posada if recompensed; Pepe's mediation. 2 Second Leaf to Michael Roberts.
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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