Saturday March 2nd

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-1-9
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • Saturday March 2nd Took cellar-cupboard window to Miguel to repair. His wife gave me a present of three old brown bowls, one striped with black, one flower design, one cock, for Laura. I mended one with hieso and paint & gum. Spent the morning writing letters to Chapin, Colony & one W.L.Power (Men Need Armour)about their books. Colony's had the phthisitic venereal taint of Keats gone Australian, and occasional glints of a poetic conscience hastily smothered. Waste of time acknowledging books that one doesn't like & hasn't asked for. I wrote five letters to Colony before I finally got one short and casual enough to Laura in bed, almost all day. Letter from Harrison Smith to say that $4800 are available. From Sergeant Billy Townsend asking for a book. From my mother in answer to letter of 22nd. Wrote to her in general terms. Wrote to H.S. to send us letter of credit to Hispano-Americano at Palma.
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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