Wednesday March 18

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-1-391
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • July 19, 2002
Transcript
  • Wednesday March 18 Antigua chapter 9. 9 pages in the morning. No letters except from H.S. who is deleting nothing from O.S. Tulips (parrot tulips now) coming up all crooked & wrong (except Kauffmannia) from the soil being too heavy still. First artichokes. Planted some love[-]in[-]the[-]mist in the bed by the deposito . 4 more pages in evening. Pointless afternoon with Kitty West, Joyce Forde & West child (friends of Maisie's) who brought out Laura mandarin coat, from Honor, name-tapes for me, books for Laura & bottle of scent. Nothing said: all polite. Only remark that nobody could be an opera singer if tonsils removed.
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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