Aug 19 Thursday

Went to Guildford by bus with the three children.
4 red canoes on the Wey & picnic visit to Guildford Castle. Back home[RG] by 'bus to Cranleigh. Then C. & I walked over the fields home.
Finished going over Ch [Chapter] V & gave Karl to type.
Laura temperature & supper in bed.
Ivor Morgan1 dead of drugs in France.
Whiskeys with C.S. Evans at Bull's Head: Talk about George Ellidge & his stealing £500 of Loebs with a specially built overcoat.

Editorial Notes

1? eds.

Hands Referenced

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

Places Mentioned

  • Cranleigh

    Cranleigh, Surrey, England
    town closest to Ewhurst KG

  • Bull's Head

    Ewhurst, Surrey, England
    pub near Highcroft eds.

  • Guildford

    Guildford, Surrey, England

  • Wey River

    Guildford, Surrey, England

People Mentioned

  • Laura

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

  • 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.

  • Evans

    Evans, C.S.
    director of Heinemann's KG

  • Catherine

    Nicholson, Catherine
    Catherine Nicholson: (1922- ) third of four children of Robert Graves and Nancy Nicholson. eds.

  • George

    Ellidge, George
    friend, married to Mary Burtonwood eds.; friend of Honor Wyatt's KG

Organizations Mentioned

  • Loebs Classical Library

    Loebs
    a series of classical texts eds.