Oct 27 Thursday.
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-1-1348
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-10-27.html
- July 19, 2002
- Oct 27 Thursday. Dictionary as/usual with Alan Brushed hall & staircase cieling ceiling while David & Dorothy polished furniture unpolished for some 50 years. A poem called The Suicide in two drafts. Dreamed that a certain Captain Gilchrist answering a competition in a paper for the best wittiest distinction between 'private soldier' and 'other rank' wrote: 'In the Indian Army among the white a full private soldier is distinguished from an other rank by being in brackets.' Brackets meant something like rickets, I remember. Laura spent most of day in a letter to George Buchanan about novels – he had written a feeble article on them.
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
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