Nov 9 Wednesday
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-1-1361
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-11-09.html
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
- July 19, 2002
- Nov 9 Wednesday David's birthday: he had gout. We did not tell him we knew of birthday until lunch – Léonie had made him a cake for it. He got presents. With Alan Beryl Dorothy cleaned up washing place – put down sand, provided a packing case on which to lay clothes, dug a sump. Leonie & Marie are now doing all the washing. Polished Laura's bed & bedside table. Work on Castle Dictionary . In evening birthday celebration for David in Salon where a pumpkin ghost was, with a candle inside – made by me. Played a game: asking answering a sentence question, silently asked by someone, with a composite sentence, a word each. I asked: What news of Sally's coming? Answer: 'Ceremonious beginnings generally signify little previous experience of prophecy: but nevertheless this is significant in research on the subject, that findings continue to seem familiar.' Alan asked: What is wrong with Montauban? Answer: 'Rather hesitantly she answered said: I undertake no responsibility for this wretched circumstance in which we find you placed.' Laura asked: 'What is lacking here, if anything?' Answer: 'In time it comes about that queries which are also answers relieve anxiety, revealing perhaps everything important as truly as necessary.'
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