Nov 2 Wednesday

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-1-1354
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • Nov 2 Wednesday Marie came to work and we got her room ready with rejected furniture & pictures from the attic. Alan & I went on bicycles to Montauban in the morning and I ordered two black corduroy trousers & a waistcoat, to measure, for 100 francs the trousers & 45 the waistcoat. And bought a black cotton heavy jacket for 45 francs. Returning; cleaned & polished the chandelier with ammonia. Dictionary with Alan and The Castle At midnight we all drank wine mulled with lemon peel, orange juice, cognac, sugar, nutmeg, water; and ate melted cheese with toast. Laura made a new hippocamp monument.
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

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