Tuesday. Sept 24

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-1-215
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • Tuesday. Sept 24 Catalina came to wash. Completed Old Soldier Sahib blurb. It thundered in the night: cooller now. Went with Gelat to Miramar, he saw oneMagdalena: Laura thinks of letting the Murcians go, paying an extra month. Got seeds, & two plants - grey-green, don't know the name. Did Almost Forgotten Times [Chapter] XXXI, also pasted in corrections of Old Soldier Sahib Paco came: Laura told him about Isabel & offered to pay the rest of month & an extra month to enable them all to go Thursday: & also to buy the bed possibly. Pleased, he. To village with Laura at Fábrica listened to Milan (Spanish anti-British propaganda). Gelat told us that Casañer, ourselves, & Pepe Salas had been denounced as spies: this is a mixed story, clearly indicating the charlatán & médico. Castañer & Pepe Salas were interested in previous road. Castañer's son-in-law is bosom pals with Franco's adjutant: so it will all come out.
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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