Aug 29 Thursday
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-1-189
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-08-29.html
- July 19, 2002
- Aug 29 Thursday Money from Laura letter, just clearing expenses. Gelat came to make things right about the signing. Talked of possibility of extending Canellun beyond the grotto & above the viejo camino : possible, if Bernardo takes over part of the land that is for sale from Ca l'Abat. Did [Chapter XVI] of Almost Forgotten Times Heavy day, went to the Piñets to the top: a few olives there, after all. Gelat burned down some carritx grass & set fire to an olive tree: he didn't think it would burn but it was one of the twisted sort & had a central flue and there was no earth so no chance of quenching the flames. A number of seedling pines which Gelat says he will let grow train up for the looks. The top olive trees only useful for firewood. It made a nice torch at night. Laura drank several whiskeys (difficulty with work) & then we went to Strenge & Schwarz who gave us punch (hot water, muscatel, cognac & lemon peel) & then we went to the two cafés & the Fonda & the Fábrica, drinking and spreading alegria .
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