Ap 6 Wednesday.

Laura doing letters all day.
Tanny drew out1 for Christian reasons.
Trojan Ending Act III Scene I revise.
Margaret came[RG], & Leonard – who wants to join the Naval air-arm.
We walked across Park – Leonard had a speed boat on the small pond. M & I watched.
To Mr Mills, bought a silver elephant brooch for Margaret & a small round Scottish pebble brooch for self 2/-2.
David wrote from Lake Garda3: I sent him £5 & asked him to walk to Lugano to call on Schwarz.
Solace4 has bronchitis: all sorts of cossettings.
Insurgents take Balaguer5.
Chinese victory at Taierchwang [sic: Taierschwang]6.

Editorial Notes

22 shillings eds.
3Italy eds.
4Graves' cat eds.
5town outside of Leridá, Spain eds.
6Taierchwang, Japan eds.

Hands Referenced

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

Places Mentioned

  • Regent Park

    London, England

  • Lugano

    Lugano, Switzerland
    near the Italian border, where RG and LR spent part of 1937 eds.

People Mentioned

  • Laura

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

  • Mills

    Mills, Mr.
    an antique seller and friend of RG, and contributor to the Covenant of Literary Morality eds.; of Paddington Street, Marylebone KG

  • Tanny Brown

    Brown, Tanny
    a painter, ex-husband of Maisie Sommerville KG; father of Maisie's son Timothy Brown eds.

  • Margaret

    Russell, Margaret
    House-keeper L.R. & R.G. had had in London. WG

  • Leonard

    Russell, Leonard
    son of Graves' housekeeper Margaret Russell KG

  • David

    Graves, David
    R.G.'s second child [by Nancy Nicholson]. W.G. In RAF; killed in the war. The only one of Graves' children who might have become a poet had he lived. K.G., eds.

  • 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

Bibliography

    • Title: Trojan Ending [dramatised version based on Laura Riding's book; later called Greeks and Trojans]
    • Author: Graves, Robert
    • Date: 1938-01
    • Title: Covenant of Literal Morality, The [subtitle Protocol I; privately printed]
    • Author: Aldridge, John, Dorothy Hutchinson, Lucie Brown, Ward Hutchinson, George Buchanan, Alix Kemp, Mary Buchanan, Hary Kemp, Norman Cameron, Len Lye, Gordon Glover, Albert Mills, Robert Graves, Mary Phillips, Sally Graves, Beryl Pritchard, Liddell Hart, David
    • Editor: Riding, Laura
    • PubPlace: Bristol
    • Publisher: Western Printing Services Ltd.
    • Idno: A37
    • Date: 1938