Oct 6 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-1-1327
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-10-06.html
- July 19, 2002
- Oct 6 Thursday David and Dorothy arrived (Dorothy with all her tools) and brought presents. David: marmalade, Earl Grey tea, Georgian toasting fork, candle-snuffer. Dorothy: chocolate mints, two-chain pinch-beck bracelet, Bristol pink & blue bottle, green & white china candlestick (from Margaret: Richmond Gem cigarettes) Things from Mr Mills to be paid for: Georgian small paste brooch, West African gold weight (one legged hunchback) wooden nutcrackers, African brass belt, top to fit my corkscrew; Georgian sharkskin black box. She also brought my moss-agate box from Mary Lucy and Lawrence proofs, bound, from Sagorski & Sutcliffe Went over points in L's: Two Ways of Reading a Poem & transcopied for her. Letter from someone called Gittes enclosing one in Spanish from Antonia, saying that Gelat was renting C'an Torrent to friends. Solomon has been boarded out with a butcher in Palma: & killed a kid on the way to the sea. Wrote to thank Mary Lucy for box; she has been ill in order to convince John of his mad jealousy; his apology to us was based on her illness.
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