Oct 15 Tuesday
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-1-236
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-10-15.html
- July 19, 2002
- Oct 15 Tuesday Gelat turned up: has every confidence in winning case & has right of appeal, which other side haven't. Is going to raise Can Madó deposito by 1 metre. Talked with boss of doctors' union about getting in a rival into in competition with the Doctor : & with Mayor of Valldemossa, trouble there too. Epilogue finished and sent off. End of a 4-5 years job. Faber & Faber agree to alterations in Old Soldier Sahib contract. Juan Vives ill in bed with rheumatic feet from getting feet wet, when fishing. Prescribed rhus tox 3 2 hourly from Prescriber; also glycerine & hot salt. Listened in at Sala Café. First clear reception for 10 days. Supper with Schwarz & Strenge Candles, fire in grate, flowers zinnias, German hors d'oeuvres & then a young turkey, Rioja Alta wine, all thevarious accompaniments of turkey — also caraway cheese a Hartz cheese, I had never tasted before. The Krasniks went off; a parting growl to Amok from Solomon.
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
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