Ap 26 Sunday. Presidential elections. (Centre & R [Right] withdraw)

Have jacked up Antigua (making a table of dates) as far as Chapter XIV. Now transcopying, to have a spare copy. Have done 3 chapters.
No letters, these days.
Hot.
To sea, but somehow didn't feel like bathing.
Punch in the evening with Str & Schw. Alan and Marjorie & Karl. Punch had wild strawberries in, and superior champagne.
A. & M. had nothing to say for themselves.
Lefts of Deyá polled 96 votes

Hands Referenced

Places Mentioned

  • Deyá

    Deyá, Majorca, Sp
    Town located on the northwest coast of Majorca, on the hillside between the Teix Mountains and the sea: this was RG's home with Laura Riding from 1929 to 1936. He returned there with his family after WW II. Eds.

People Mentioned

  • Karl/Carl

    Goldschmidt, Karl
    Karl Goldschmidt, later Kenneth Gay: Graphic artist, friend and secretary of Robert Graves and Laura Riding since 1934. R. G. spells both as Carl and Karl.

  • Swartz

    Schwarz, Georg
    German Jew. Deyá neighbour. Antique dealer. Lived with Frau Emmy Strenge, his house keeper, in Can Caballo some hundred yards from Canellun. RG and LR translated his "Almost Forgotten Germany." WG

  • Strenge

    Strenge, Frau Emmi
    Schwarz's house keeper and ? mistress. WG

  • Marjorie

    Launder, Marjorie
    Schoolmistress; friend of James Reeves R.G.

  • Alan Bartlett

    Bartlett
    Official at Ministry of Agriculture; friend of James Reeves R.G.

Bibliography

    • Title: Antigua Penny Puce
    • Author: Graves, Robert
    • PubPlace: Deyá & London
    • Publisher: Seizin & Constable
    • Idno: A46
    • Date: 1936