Aug 20 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:
- 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-1-1280
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-08-20.html
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- July 19, 2002
- Aug 20 Saturday Finished The Fallen Signpost in five drafts: no,six. James discussed it with me and found two words for me. A rainy day. Not much work. Laura working on Americanisms for the Dictionary plan. Sawed wood for exercise and kept three fires going. Visit from M me Perou & family. In the evening we had a sort of party: punch with red wine, lemon, nutmeg, brandy. And making up a story of adventure, which went queer largely because of Ethel who was difficult and said gross things about the Clever & the Great. And a game of relations. i.e. if Robert were a battle, Laura would be a siege, Alan a peace-treaty, Beryl arms, David the letters home. If James a lake, Robert a road, Ethel the view, If Laura a clock: then David a mantlepiece, Beryl a round table with one leg and no drawer, Alan a chess-set etc.
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
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