Wed. Oct 28th

Letters and odd jobs all day. Not very well still. Also boil still suppurating.
Finished reading Margery Kempe1 and read Gorer's Nobody Talks Politica [sic: politics] 2.
In evening went to see Len's Rainbow Dance [sic: dance]3 with Jack Elliot's music at the Tatler news theatre [sic: newstheatre].
*[RG] Today we took a 3 months lease of the flat at 10 Dorset St. 6 1/2 gns [guineas] a week.

Editorial Notes

1See Oct. 26 entry. eds.
2 Nobody Talks Politica by Geoffrey Gorer. London: M.Joseph Ltd, 1936. eds.
3 Len Lye's short experimental 1936 film eds.

Hands Referenced

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

Places Mentioned

  • Dorset Street

    Westminster, London, England
    RG and LR moved to 10, Dorset St. in November 1936 into a flat below Harry & Alix Kemp RPG 260

  • Tatler News Theatre

    London, England

People Mentioned

  • Len

    Lye, Len
    New Zealand painter, sculptor, and filmmaker whom LR & RG had met in London. He helped with the Seizin Press publications. WG; married to Jane Lye, son Bix. eds.
  • Gorer, Geoffrey
    (1901-1985) English anthropologist and writer.

  • Jack Elliot

    Elliot, Jack