July 8 Monday August 5th Monday
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-1-165
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-08-05.html
- July 19, 2002
- July 8 Monday August 5th Monday Wrote to Bank, asking them to for Laura paid Isabel's mother's fare on condition that same stays. Dream about strange hall of a house in 1900-ish London: over the door a faded print called “In the Gay Old Days. The Duke of Westminster celebrates his Coming of Age in the Company of 10,000 Ladies of the Town.” The D. of W, a long-faced fair-haired young man in evening dress, elbows on knees staring greedily forward: in the middle of an auditorium full of girls with doll faces and wasp-waists. Girls boiled up the blackberry & apple jelly which I poured out & sealed: it made 12 small pots, very stiff. Algarrobas falling. Richards all morning. Laura has bad stomach. Afternoon, sea: buried stinking corpse of a kid on foreshore,in company with the Staff-Colonel staying at Son Bauza, who was grateful on account of his wife & children with him. Laura going over Fantasia & writing a letter to Constable about business names. We went through Documents. New arrangement made for files. I wrote to Eliot asking him to approve Wills of both & return; to Pinker asking Hogarth Press's profit-sharing scheme, what percentage; to Westminster enclosing our joint-account application. For second time running got salt-water into the ice. Finished going over Richards manuscript so far as he sent it. Gelat came & told us about enquiries he made about the spy, whom the Police know nothing about, may be a Private Cop. Also about Pedro & his shameless brother in law & political moves now taken to settle water dispute.
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
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