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July 16th Tuesday

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-1-145
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • July 16th Tuesday Men still at work on Entrada gauze-door, finished one in cellar too. Made green tomato pickle 5 jars, 3 bottles. No mixed spice; so put in cinnamon, pepper & mace & curry powder. Small pot for Posada. To P village to get sheep's head; to Posada with castor oil & lamp for entrada. Second draft of On the Other Hand (liquorice) which Mary typed. Prepared about 30 pp of Old-Soldier Sahib for Richa Mary to type. Checked Molly's Life, 30 pp. Bathed, Mary too came, found most perfect shell ever yet in Deyá. Boiled it out. Such difficulty about boat owing to spy-scare & not being able to build boat-house without sending to Madrid that decided to sell boat. Concordia has ceiling about to be placed; door opened, sides ready for plaster. Francisquito has bad impetigo. Letter from Curtis Browne that List has at least banked the money with their bank & awaiting authority from Divisenstelle to transfer to Curtis Browne's bank. From J.C. that he will offer L & A to H.S. if Doubleday have no interest in it. Ordered Apollonius Rhodius from Loeb. Worked till 2.3O, Laura finishing Honor's Life, I getting on with Molly's. Then to bed. Laura woke me up with a visit from Solomon & singing & jokes.
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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