Monday June 24

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

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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-1-123
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • Monday June 24 San Juan Spent morning in village trying to arrange that Carmen's brother's Lluchmayor orchestra should have a piano. Gelat foresaw trouble & went grudgingly about the last with the millionaire. That piano was out of tune & no other. Then lunch at Fábrica, Laura in Julie silk dress (first time) with Julie gold beads, emerald ring, emerald earrings, self in red linen trousers red silk shirt white silk waistcoat. Food, arroz sucio , chicken, cigale in mayonaise mayonnaise , beans with ham, muscatel, champagne, cigars. Present: Gelat, Medora Madora , Juan, Magdalena, Francisquito, Anita, Laura & Karl & I. Anita's two sisters, and their cousin Miguel of Son Bauza. Afterwards to eat the four-tiered cake we had given Gelat (with cherries and sugar Jses) Bernado and his wife and daughters, and the Viña Viejas etc. Races, for rabbit & hen: hen won by youth who borrowed my red shoes. Then to Plaza to hear boleros . Scandal there because the Lluchmayor band, good at dance music, could not play boleros; which was insisted on by Committee & theMayor. Boleros danced, music by Esporlas band,& jotas (Strenge's Francisca's novio & her sister, Maria de sa Font Fresc, a Lluchmayor girl etc). Back to Fábrica for supper[:] chicken soup & cold chicken. Back to Plaza for dance music. Hot dusty wind sprang up, so we returned at 10.30.
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