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Aug 31 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:
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-1-191
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • Aug 31 Sat. To village for sugar & to find lost watch (no go) But apples, mangettas monjetas (meat &) half a marrow. Boiled up the jelly: made 20 lb or more, very sharp, like black red currant, & very stiff. Some to Strenge, Karl & Isabel's mother. Put up notice of loss of watch. Almost Forgotten Times [Chapter] XVIII Sent that letter to Liddell Hart. First yellow fig from grotto. First melon of the large green kind. Smuggling reign of terror. Special judge. i I n a few days all ring leaders put in prison — bail for 300,000 pesetas — including Mayor of Felanitx & Miguel of Bar Ritz, & one from Bar Formentor & one from [Café] Born. Head of tobacco company released on bail of 25,000 then arrested: bail demanded was then 200,000. (Also stern round up of passportless foreigners.) Heavy prison sentences.
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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