Friday July 1st
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-1-1230
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-07-01.html
- July 19, 2002
- Friday July 1st Today saw the police. Last night Margarita came from Spain, the Doctor's sister & told us about Deyá — how a shell had fallen in the 'Gravera'; and compulsory mass; & Germans & Italians in control. And how Gelat's goods had been seized when he was arrested and third degreed; & how everyone is friends now at Deyá – for fear of the outcome. In the car with Juan & Anita to St Suplice des Landes to choose the furniture of the proprietor M. Emile Judais: he gave us eau de vie cidre – seventy years old and showed us the castle & forest of Rochefar where he hunted wild boar once. Introduced to Miguel Ripoll, Juan's partner from Deyá — muy simpatico . In the evening to a cinema & saw two adulterous French films. My chief task today was arranging for blond café .
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