Aug 17 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-1-1277
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-08-17.html
- July 19, 2002
- Aug 17 Wednesday. Preparing for James & Ethel Reeves. No work at all either before or after they came. * We were just showing them over La Chevrie when Anita (who is having another child) Juan, Juanita and Francisca Ripoll arrived & stayed the whole afternoon. A game of 7 ¼ with James, David, Alan, Beryl, Juan, Anita, Laura, me; in the course of which I won 44 francs – to buy 4 lottery tickets for general benefit. Tea & coffee & cakes on the grass on the lake side of the house. In the evening we sat round the fire in the dining room – more full of bees than ever – building up by contributions in turn the story of a sick engineer with troubles with his wife & initials C.M.L. and a temptation to go to Sweden and a fussiness about clothes; and another about a woman of 58 who hunted, had been to Portugal, lived in Earl's court, inherited money, had a solicitor friend with whom she played a complicated card game. James gave us a brown lustre sugar basin and we him the glasses I got in the Place de la Bretagne.
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