March 7th 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:

• Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939

Creator

• Graves, Robert, 1895-1985

Subject

• Authors, English
• Graves, Robert, 1895-1985

Language

• eng

Date created

• March 7, 1935

Resource type

• Text

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Extent

• 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller

Additional physical characteristics

• The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.

Physical repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• diaries

Archival item identifier

• Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-14

Fonds title

• Robert Graves collection

Fonds identifier

• SC050

Is referenced by

• Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
• Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-03-07.html

Date digitized

• July 19, 2002

Transcript

• March 7th Thursday Laura has influenza. Betty went back. A very cold wind blowing. £ down to 34.45 pesetas. Went down to sea. Asphodels out. The Focus January number isn't here yet: it was promised for Sat.24th. Made out a scheme for the court case of Antigua , but got the order of procedure wrong. No matter. Sebastian grafted 2 peaches on 2 almonds. Laura told me a dream. A hall of people being asked questions by a professor of psychology to show his deductive skill. He picked on Laura for the question, “What is the function of a bird?” She replied aggressively, “I do not consider that a proper question; it should be addressed,if at all, to the bird itself, but since And that no answer could can be expected from the bird does not justify your shifting the responsibility for answering from a being without consciousness, to a conscious being who has altogether different functions. Your question to such a being can only properly refer to observed action in the other. If therefore you ask me 'what does a bird do?' my answer would be 'fly!'” The funniest letter and poem sent me by one Sidney Wilson of Ashley, Penn. Filed it in Dictionary of Christian Biography under Lazarus-Leander.

Technical note

• 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.

Rights

• Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/mxb6-er36

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