May 4 Wednesday.

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

In Collection:

• Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939

Creator

• Graves, Robert, 1895-1985

Subject

• Authors, English
• Graves, Robert, 1895-1985

Language

• eng

Date created

• May 4, 1938

Resource type

• Text

Rights statement

• In Copyright

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

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• diaries

Archival item identifier

• Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-1172

Fonds title

• Robert Graves collection

Fonds identifier

• SC050

Is referenced by

• Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-05-04.html
• Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection

Date digitized

• July 19, 2002

Transcript

• May 4 Wednesday. Laura has not been well for 3 days. * Agreed to let Dent do dictionary . John came to lunch and stayed until 4.15, talking about literal way of painting pictures Alan there too. Then Laura to dentist, I to Mr Mills where: ivory earrings for Alix negro boys (Georgian) for Norman Russian dolls for Wanda. (£1.2/- in all) L. John & I met for coffee again in Yarners, Regent St. Then Laura & I went to Dickens & Jones where she bought a brown leather purse with a twirl on it 29/6. Laura worked on my poems , Schools , Harry's book , etc.

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

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/pnrk-d023