Friday May 22nd

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-1-456
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • Friday May 22nd Heavy, cold day. Taking a holiday from work. The Bartolomé who has got into bad odour with the village because of his French wife's attack on his father & sister working on a wall at the end of the garden where the deposito will be. To Posada, where the netting is being put round the garden. Ordered lock for casita door from Miguel. Bougainvillea at the Can Torrent casita flowering. Posada again after climbing up the Church hill from the Torrent. In the evening in 20 minutes wrote the first draft of a poem “ It has happened Well .”
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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