Feb 1 Monday

Public

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-1-715
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • Feb 1 Monday Letter from Deyá asking for mony money : war taxes, p instalment on Can Mado, no income from cars, men work Amador's wages. Another draft of the poem: now called Big-head . Jenny came up to Town: in a place at 15 Basil St. She lunched with Karl. We gave her her new ring. John & Lucie all day. John gave me a watercolour of the Place garden & Lucie gave Laura a small Bristol glass scent bottle & I them some 14 Bristol marbles: & introduced Lucy to 'my friend' Mr Mills for clasps. With Jenny to Green-Armytage who hopes to give her a clean bill of health on Wednesday & to a blood test opposite at 6 Harley St. G.A. gave Jenny good advice about men & about nursing homes. Goodbye to John & Lucy. Epilogue ; & checking Dictionary . Bed at 2.15 as usual these days.
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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