July 20, Saturday. S ta Margarita
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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- 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-1-149
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-07-20.html
- July 19, 2002
- July 20, Saturday. S ta Margarita Up at 6, to catch camión with letters and an order for MISTOL for Laura's throat. (Wrote to Verschayle declining to collaborate in a book about the novel; etc) Rosa came: fitted my pewter button waistcoat. To Estanco for cigarettes: to Posada to see what was missing for tea coffee this afternoon. Sent up Catalina Martina to Posada to sew cushions for Honor's chimney corner bench in Posada entrada ; Miguel Senior to screw kitchen shelf properly; left word for masons to fix the garden gate now waiting there and to put in estacas missing in the kitchen. Found quotation from Book of Dead & from Meterology for Poets which Laura is going over for Mary to type. Richards . Wrote out more questions for him. Barera Barrera fixed, estacas put in, kitchen shelf screwed. Catalina made cushions. Coffee at Posada. My morey workroom chair came. Josepha made blackberry ice. Schw. paid for champagne at Margarita's (who had black eye presumably from Jaime.) Page proofs of James's poems & nice letter from him about Jacob & Focus . Procurador privately warned Gelat of final effort of médico: injunction behalf of the Torpe : witnesses, young Estanco, médico & Juan Molí. Dance steps on deposito . Ice to Joan & Honor & light for bathroom there. Gelat will get an order for all water-holders to show their claims & in answer to the 5 witnesses against him will bring 25. Meanwhile will pretend to damage turbine to gain time.
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