July 28 Thursday
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-1-1257
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-07-28.html
- July 19, 2002
- July 28 Thursday Rewrote seven poems on lines suggested by Laura. Laura with interruptions doing Aristotle. A new drink: cold tea & cider. The strangest day. The bees were not in the log but in the chimney. We lit huge fires of cypress-branches and killed great numbers. At last a honey comb (with young bees but no honey) tumbled down. Thousands of bees buzzed over the roof & we lit fires in Laura's workroom, Dorothy's bedroom, mine. But they persisted. Then Alan went to nail board up holes in loft against bats. Beryl & I went up too. Mice and bats. We took up the kitten. Found a nest of ten bats & killed them, jabbing with boards. It was fearfully hot. Stuffed green peppers with rice. Yesterday there was a breadpudding situation. Laura went over more poems – another bat in kitchen.
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