July 8th Monday.

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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-1-137
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • July 8th Monday. Last night Gelat explained that Pepe & Bujosa must make application for boat-house-roof together. Will get the Molí table today. Told him we would buy the Salón Concordia a radio set. He has sold the old [steam] machinery which will enlarge the Salón a lot: hopes to finish by end of month. Sandstone from the Hotel Florida. Wrote Bank about £100 not paid in on May 9th by Barker as promised. Cabled Beck about putting Seizin Press first in imprint. To Posada: doors being fitted, plastering here & there, broken stair mended, final row of stones at back door, ordered other shelves in dispensa despensa , again, drainboard for kitchen. Wrote to J. Cape about bygones: also about Arnie's film; suggested L & A useful to sell with film: gave him 10% on foreign sales. To Curtis Browne about film version delay. To Epp.Thatcher for camphor. To Ian Richmond about film delay. Tried to make plum & peach ice, with salt & ice. Did not put enough salt (1 kilo needed) but after supper at the Posada in the entrada (candles) & telling Juan where to put electric lights there, & making a list of work there tomorrow, came back & found a third of the thing ice-cream, solid, the rest liquid but cold. Worked till 1 a.m. at Can Torrent finishing Tom's Moon's No Fool .
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