Aug 4 Sunday

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Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.

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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-1-164
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • Aug 4 Sunday Cooller Cooler . Got up very late, shortly before lunch. At 2 o'clock decided to go to a bull–fight. Went. Karl, Juan, Laura & I. Laura in yellow with net gloves & amethyst ring. Matadors: Jaime Noain, PepeGallardo, Rodrigo FernandoDominguez. Procession of Misses in cars around the arena & 3 bands. Noain's first bull very weak[;] let off banderillos . Gallardo's very cowardly wouldn't face horses: took a long time to kill: second remainder better but the matadors though hardworking & going through all the motions didn't appeal. Noain got ears. Gallardo goodish in second bull but took four shots at the discabello descabello . Dominguez second bull — in half-dark — earned claps for a picador , among the few that were given. Dominguez got a cogida in right through the fleshy part ofleg and elbow (we[?] think) (lying on his face while the bull attacked him) but insisted on continuing & killed at first attempt: then carried to hospital. Got ears.Biscuit glacé at Alhambra 4 coñacs & beefstake beefsteak . Gelat gave us information confirming our ideas about S.St. On the way back from Alhambra near Gordiola saw the procession of (15th?) Century horsemen with candles in cupped sticks resting on their stirrups, red-coated guards & an illuminated Catalina coach with Bengal flares & four horses pulling children in Mallorquin costume, and singing Republican anthem.
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