Oct 2 Wednesday.

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-1-223
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • Oct 2 Wednesday. Gas drum changed. Incorporated Old Soldier Sahib corrections. Gelat came, & talked for 2 hours about things — removal of olive trees, Valldemossa electric scheme (but not until everything is settled about hours of water), the Sala café & the importance of keeping it under our control. Alice brought her many 3 of her four kittens to Canellun (drain-pipe). Pepe came & Gelat, he & we worked out position of new casita at Can Torrent. Two men now working at the fuente in search of water for the house: went there with Gelat. Very little water is needed for the garden, & since this is October in a dry year if water is found it is likely to last all the year round. To Margarita to try on my coat after many months; heard wireless news of invasion of Abyssinia by the Italians & of a possible Anglo-French naval rapprochment . Finished Almost Forgotten Times [Chapter] XXXVI & started A.F.T. [Chapter] XXXVII. To Café where failed to get Daventry news but played Parchesi with Juan & Modern Girl & A.N.OTHER & won.
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.
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