July 19 Monday

Public

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

In Collection:
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-1-883
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • July 19 Monday Anniversary of Rebellion and a dull, sweaty awful day. Face swollen. Not much pain, as such; but feeling lacerated. Letter from E. Altounyan from Aleppo wanting to correspond about Poetry. Replied. Laura working on Letter Book . I made a start of Chapter 8 of Ghost , and (11 pages) wrote several letters, made up a/cs. Sent Claudius film version to Random House. Dressed for supper. Thunderstorm. 66 reintroduced. Rebel counterattack at Brunete fails. Karl making a mask of home-mashed papier-maché, painted. War starting in China.
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

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