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Sept 4th Saturday

Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.

In Collection:
Creator Subject Language Date created Resource type Rights statement 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 Collection
  • Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
Provider Genre Archival item identifier
  • Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-930
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • Sept 4th Saturday 6 pages & going over revision of Smuggler . Letters. Allen, tailors, promise restitution for trousers worn out too soon. Bus to Cranleigh & returned. The best day this summer. Laura working on letter book I am feeling really well again. It has not rained for weeks & the ground, which is clay, is all cracks: I lost an arrow head in one of them. Solace the kitten was given a collar with a bell; caught a huge mouse & chased it round the sitting room for hours. (The bell was off temporarily). Talked with Laura about the 'emancipation of possessions'.
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.
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