Feb 8 Wednesday
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-1-1459
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1939-02-08.html
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
- July 19, 2002
- Feb 8 Wednesday * Woken up by a cable from McIntyre saying that all objections raised 'by so-called experts' now met. Finished the poem, in 5 drafts – tentatively called A Love Story . Dictionary with Alan, finishing “L” , and a session with Laura & him on definitions of attributes. Still lovely weather. In the evening we went to Montauban to a drama of a stolen baby, a rich woman & a poor woman. It was a Church thing, so all the actors who were in a romantic relationship had to be relatives – (incestuous; L said) and the chief actors were the lame grocer, as a grandfather, M. Pinson's two clerks, the elder as the drunken husband, the younger as the villain. The heroine was the dressmaker the elder's clerk's wife, M me Huitre, who has in a real life (M me Perou & Beryl agree) a more sluttish household than the misère to which she was reduced in the play and revels in it. After we had 'grogs' at Hotel Ouest and M me Perou teased us for liking a little girl with plats whom she thought rather 'wet'.
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
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