Nov 26 Sat.
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-1-1378
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-11-26.html
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
- July 19, 2002
- Nov 26 Sat. To Paris at 2.30 am Laura decided to come, though she had no preliminary sleep as I & Beryl & David had. Monsieur Priour drove us. We had rugs, cigarettes & a bottle of Calvados . It blew and rained violently all the way. We stopped for breakfast at a village inn, but it stank so and was so filthy and night-before-lastish that we only had coffee & went straight on to Paris. We went by Laval, Le Mans, Chartres. At Le Mans saw a tall man running in the rain: he was le mans to us. At 9.30 arrived at the outskirts where Priour wanted to put us down and let us go on by taxi. However, we went on to Café Bel-Air a Breton Café and freshened up. Then we went to 66 rue Mirò Mesnil where Miss Nernie should have been. I was there all day waiting: she sent an unintelligible wire from the boat. It appears that instead of going the quickest way she had gone by Havre, so as not to arrive in Paris too early. The boat had not sailed until next morning. At 5.30 she arrived & I had signed the T.E. sheets by 7. But they will not go off until Tuesday after all. Oh, I had had lunch with the others & Joyce Reeves at the Du Quesclin in Montparnasse. Beryl spent the morning with Cecily Scott, an Oxford friend married to the Paris Daily Express correspondent & had champagne. Denise Clairouin the literary agent in whose office in Miro Mesnil I spent the day was very hospitable & a very good person I thought. For a moment I also saw Jewel (?) one of Morrow's people. Laura bought me a blue scarf & we got cakes for David & a candlestick for Dorothy.
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
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