May 6 Friday.

A very long letter to Tom & Julie.
David muddled lunch with Jenny so stopped over until seeing[RG] having dinner with her: went back at 10 oclock.
David & I went to Church St Market: I bought 4 Wedgwood [sic: Wedgewood] coffee cups & saucers 1/-1, 1 teapot stand Blue flowers 6d2
Laura to Dentist: David, Alan & I went in a taxi to Baker St & walked back together. I was pretty tired. In evening Mary & Bill Fuller: protocol talk – he ×××× [indecipherable] slow & industrious, she quick & lazy.
Mary F. was given the green & white necklace originally made for L.

Editorial Notes

11 shilling eds.
2sixpence eds.

Hands Referenced

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

Places Mentioned

  • Church Street Market

    Marylebone, Paddington, London, England

  • Baker Street

    Westminster, London, England

People Mentioned

  • Laura

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

  • Alan

    Hodge, Alan
    Oxford history graduate. Became close friends with LR & RG. First husband of Beryl Graves. CP & WG

  • Jenny

    Nicholson, Jenny
    Jenny Nicholson: oldest daughter of Robert by Nancy Nicholson.

  • 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.

  • Tom

    Matthews, T.S.(Tom)
    American journalist. Took sabbatical from TIME and arrived in Deyá in 1930. Involved from then on with L.R. and R.G. WG

  • Julie

    Matthews, Julie
    Tom Matthews' wife. WG

  • Bill Fuller

    Fuller, William
    lawyer and researcher for Antigua Penny Puce KG; m. to Mary Fuller eds.

Bibliography

    • 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