Aug 2 Tuesday.

Public

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-1-1262
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • Aug 2 Tuesday. Second anniversary of leaving Deyá. Went to Rennes with Laura. Taxi-man kept us waiting ¾ hour at Montfort which made us angry. Then furniture: 3 tables, 3 chairs for about 500 francs. The 5 tables, 3 chairs, 2 chest. of draws, 2 beds & mattress = about £14. The priest with blue eyes whom both L & I noticed separately. Iced coffee & bock. Anita gave me a bottle of Anisado . Getting Montague's Slept in only a sheet. Beryl & Alan bathed in the lake. No bats now.
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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