Saturday Ap 20
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-1-58
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-04-20.html
- July 19, 2002
- Saturday Ap 20 Up late. To Ca l'Abat to buy chicken. Bought a hen instead. The white and red paper-like flowers out. (Summer flowering carnations out. Exchanged mint with Strenge for sultanas and curry powder.) The Ca l'Abat Francisco said that when he was young he would sing all day, never repeat himself — all Mallorquin songs. You can always tell a Mallorquin song, “ La primera palabra es tambien la ultima —not like those written by men of letters.” Busy with preparations for tomorrow. Kurtz came & borrowed books. In the evening Gelat came and Laura ,he and I discussed the financial situation: it appeared certain that after an investment of not quite £3000 would bring in £1000 a year from electric light in Deyá, Valldemossa, and from water selling in Lluchalcari, thePuig etc. He will know by San Juan about the accessibility and quantity of water & we promised to let him know by then how much money would be available this year. He is trying to smother his excitement: says that he wants us to be able to live without constant writing for money. It was only by trying to find water at right height for Canellun roof that this new stream was located.
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
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