Sunday June 23rd
PublicPage 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-1-122
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-06-23.html
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
- July 19, 2002
- Sunday June 23rd Worked over poems all morning. Afternoon to village to watch bicycle contests, with ribbons worked by village girls for the men to poke, through the rings, with a stick and carry away. Sea: found shells for Mary and for Canellun – a few stones too. Then a special fish supper – the huge fish from the fishermen who had given me the coral for Laura – done in a sauce of tunny, pimiento , prawns and mayonnaise. Then to Plaza to watch dancing: first year of new orchestra. Lottery for hen, won by Juan . Lots of ices & cold beer from baker. Boleros : one very good pair, manfrom Can Prom and little girl. Gordon souffente souffrante spoiled evening. At Margarita's café Gelat at 12 o'clock ordered two bottles of champagne to drink his health. Half-drunk young Soller man with bicycle. Complained that all the foreigners had nuts and all the nut shops in the village were shut. Margarita said “those aren't foreigners, they're English.” Then he said “I am from the continent. I come from Garros in the province of Murcia.” Karl said “What does that matter to me?” “Or to me either,” said the h-d. “Since I'm here not there.”
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