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

In Collection:

• Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939

Creator

• Graves, Robert, 1895-1985

Subject

• Authors, English
• Graves, Robert, 1895-1985

Language

• eng

Date created

• December 1, 1938

Resource type

• Text

Rights statement

• In Copyright

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

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• diaries

Archival item identifier

• Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-1383

Fonds title

• Robert Graves collection

Fonds identifier

• SC050

Is referenced by

• Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
• Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-12-01.html

Date digitized

• July 19, 2002

Transcript

• Dec 1 Thursday. 5 hours of Dictionary : to extract our ration of 100 words. Very little else except a walk to the village with Alan & there ate rabbit-pâté at Hotel Ouest Laura finished 5th scene of Greeks & Trojans and worked with David on problem of what would be a perfect modern machine made chair. She did Aristotle again at night. A fawning letter about my poems from R.Church. Finished British Social Life in India (by myself, not reading aloud) and Code of the Woosters – sadly bad.

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.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/40zz-ae40

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