March 24 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:

• Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939

Creator

• Graves, Robert, 1895-1985

Subject

• Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
• Authors, English

Language

• eng

Date created

• March 24, 1938

Resource type

• Text

Rights statement

• In Copyright

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

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• diaries

Archival item identifier

• Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-1131

Fonds title

• Robert Graves collection

Fonds identifier

• SC050

Is referenced by

• Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
• Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-03-24.html

Date digitized

• July 19, 2002

Transcript

• March 24 Thursday Three drafts of a poem about Doing Nothing . Across the park to Mr Mills in search of a gift for Julian: but we will keep what I got – an 18th century English carillon of 8 bells (silver-brass) on a Sussex iron stand. (7/6) Established a second flower-&bead &-marble-jar and found covers for both at Mr Mills' – a pair of Royal Staffordshire blue Pekin little plates. Laura worked with Len. Bridget & Norman to supper (Laura made a new dish – turnip & strawberry) Then George & Mary Buchanan and Sally: talk about moral-protocols. Chamberlain's equivocal foreign policy speech.

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

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/bx0c-vz57