Diary of Robert Graves 1935-39 and ancillary material

Editorial Notes

Hands Referenced

• • Annotation: ink correction
  • Character: regular
  • Ink: black

Places Mentioned

• Islip

  Islip, Oxfordshire, England

  small village where Graves and Nancy Nicholson rented, then owned, a cottage named "The World's End" R.P.G.

• Can Renau

  Majorca, Spain

People Mentioned

• Laura

  Riding, Laura

  (1901-91) American poet. Laura Riding (née Reichenthal; then Laura Gottschalk).

• Margarita

  Margarita (chambermaid)

  Chambermaid from Palma. Worked with Catalina the Cook. WG

• Liddell Hart

  Liddell Hart, Capt. Basil

  War-fare expert and friend of T.E. Lawrence. Collaborated with RG on a book of T.E.L'.s letters, published in 1938. See RPG p.231. WG & Eds.

• Arnie

  Lawrence, A.W. (Arnie)

  T.E. Lawrence's brother and executor. WG

• T.E.

  Lawrence, T. E.

  'Lawrence of Arabia.' Met Robert in Oxford in the early twenties. Made Robert his biographer and had him write "Lawrence and the Arabs." WG

• Maria de sa Font Fresca

  De sa Font Fresca, Maria

  Gelat's mistress (or one of them) C.P. & W.G. Sebastian the gardener's daughter (spells "Fresca" without the final "a"?) K.G.

• Honor

  Wyatt, Honor

  Journalist. Arrived in Deyá fortuitously. Married to Gordon Glover...Son Julian. W.G. First acquainted with R.G. and L.R. early in 1934; returned to visit in 1935; continued friendship in England. eds (RPG 211).

• Castañer

  Castañer

  ? Owner of a large house in the Clot. Worked in Palma? WG

• Ernest Neale

  Neale, Ernest

  of Islip post office R.G.

Bibliography

• • Title: T.E. Lawrence to His Biographer
  • Author: Lawrence, T.E.
  • Editor: Graves, Robert
  • PubPlace: New York
  • Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc.
  • Idno: A49
  • Date: 1938
• • Title: The Heathen
  • Author: Wyatt, Honor
  • Editor: Riding, Laura
  • PubPlace: New York
  • Publisher: Random House
  • Date: 1937