Oct 17 Thursday
Page 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-1-238
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-10-17.html
- July 19, 2002
- Oct 17 Thursday Put new paper in vellum notebook. Sent bull-advertisement (Belmonte) to Sala (where pictures greatly appreciated) & took wire to village telling Beck to get on with things. Médico approached Gelat through Juan Moli's wife & Juan Vives suggesting an arreglo . Gelat replied he did not propose to talk to Médico, but his offer held to give the people water who had a right to it if they told what hours they wanted. Black & white wing feather of hoopoe: gift of Juan Vives. Got down blankets & other winter things from attic. Letter from David giving sensible reasons for wanting to go to Cambridge: Oxford depressed him. Replied O.K. Application from A.A.Simpson “Poems publishable?”: replied discouragingly. Decent letter from Michael Roberts: replied. And from Arnie Lawrence: thanking for information about books: replied suggesting Mynotz Hagen Began long letter of protest to Left Review . In evening we worked out 66 to exhaustion point. Laura got a 'Tailor' & Karl is owed 6 pesetas 60[centimos] in presents.
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
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