1939 1938 Enclosure – RG Summary of 1938
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-1-1417
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-12-31_01_enc.html
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
- July 19, 2002
- Enclosure – RG Summary of 1938 1939 1938 at La Chevrie, Montauban: rented from Countess de Kerouallan at £40 a year finished Present: Laura, me, Dorothy, Beryl, Alan – two girls Leonie & Marie: Sidonie helping from the village. Relations: good. Health: good. Work: Dictionary of Exact Meanings : contract not yet signed but general understanding with Dent & Little Brown . Laura generally supervising, Alan & I sorting out (about 25,000) words for definition – have about 17,000 so far – arranging them in groups. The Swiss Ghost . Constable has option. Laura & I have done all but 3 chapters, thoroughly. Of these three I have written out rough draft of 2¼. T.E. Lawrence to his Biographers : United States edition published on Dec 21, English follows on Jan 12. Dorothy still working on a wooden sculpture of a head & a wheel. Alan. Dictionary : a book on journeys and revising Year of Damage written 2 years ago Beryl Typing, looking after cats. (No-no & Bellamy) & hedgehog Laura : Doing last section of Lives of Wives for Cassell & Random House. One scene still to do on dramatic version of Trojan Ending which I roughed out for her. Half-way through a children's story about a little girl who read to an old woman: for collaborative book of which I have written ' The Castle-Keeper ' Various Epilogue things. Going over last chapter for David Reeves of book on furniture which they have done together Books on Poets & Schools (in which Alan & I, respectively, did most of the rough work) being coaxed along. The Left Heresy to be shortly published by Methuen. Harry Kemp, Laura (Alan & I a little.) Rimbaud translation, with Norman Publications last year (1938) Laura World & Ourselves Chatto Collected Poems Cassell Self. Count Belisarius Collected Poems T.E. Lawrence to his Biographer Laura & Len . Pamplet about Len Laura & others. Protocol One Spanish War Government hold Valencia, Barcelona, Madrid: have sent back foreign volunteers. Franco with German & Italian help is attacking Catalonia: for the severalth time, & losing heavily in a counter attack. Chamberlain is preparing to go to Rome & brief with Mussolini. Protocol . About 70 people have endorsed it; in United States of America & England. Friends: nearest always are John & Lucy, James & Mary, David, Tom, Julie, Isabel Len & Jane, Sally Norman has got further away since he married Catherine. Honor has drifted away from negligence; Maisie because she could not endorse the Protocol . Other friends are: Schuyler Jackson, George & Mary Buchanan, Albert Mills, Liddell Hart, Ward & Dorothy Hutchinson, Alix & Harry Kemp. children: Sam at St Christophers Catherine at Farm House, Wendover David at Jesus Camb Jenny at Liverpool Playhouse Our Money: about £200 in hand & £400 due when Laura finishes lif Lives of Wives + £1000 (minus) four months later. Our Debts A few £s to Watt not yet covered by royalties; £125 to Chatto, less sales of World & Ourselves .
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