Dec 24 Saturday Christmas Eve.
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-1-1406
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-12-24.html
- July 19, 2002
- Dec 24 Saturday Christmas Eve. Marie still ill. Léonie able to do one-handed jobs. In the morning Alan & Dorothy dug up Christmas tree & dressed it. They got a huge bunch of mistletoe, and some holly & we decorated the Salon. We also had a yule-log cake with Vive la Chevrie on it. I mulled claret and we had our presents after supper. Chief ones were: R. to Laura: 3 Ashantee Ashanti gold-weights. to Alan: 6 agate buttons to Dorothy enamel cloak clasp & Poems to Beryl cameo bracelet to self: steel brooch L to Alan: waistcoat & cigarettes to Dorothy opal ring & jacket to Beryl red brooch & stockings to Robert lustre jug Dorothy to Laura: old English brass tray to Robert: cloisonné Turkish coffee cup. Beryl & Alan to Laura: pinchbeck clasps with coral. Lots of small presents Jokes: Laura reads out “Sir Humphrey Clifford is about to going to will marry when he is 84.” Beryl: How old is he now? [_________________________________] Me: frappe, frappe ! Alan: Qui là . Me: Pernod Alan: Pernod lequel ? Me: Père Noel Noêl
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