July 26 Friday St Anita
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-1-155
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1935-07-26.html
- July 19, 2002
- July 26 Friday St Anita Honor & Mary went today. To Palma at 10. Schw came, too, in camión . Bought hermit ring for Mary, fan & bracelet for Honor, belt for Joan with 3 little pigs, bone-ring with bell for Julian, presents for John & Lucy (box with zigzags and silver church plaques) & for James (straw cigarette box with mirror)& red stuff silk with stripes for Lucy – also turquoise earrings (95p[ts]), for Maisie: purse for Gordon. Went over things with Sabater. Thelen hopes to finish Sch. job by Aug 18th. Food at Parisien. (Laura had bad stomach & couldn't eat much) I had whets, lobster, beefsteak, beer, fruit salad. Chance of selling boat for 500[pts]. Gelat happy now he finds that as owner of a spring he can make it run where he likes. Anita's fiesta (sent her ensaimada ) Said goodbye to the chaps at about 6. Telegram from H.S., “Postpone”. Laura gave Carl cigarette-lighter. Borrowed Balearic History from Short. To village after supper to eat Anita's cakes. Gelat showed us the law about water in a book. Beddoes came.
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