Nov 12 Sat.

Dictionary (115 words)
Castle 14 pp [pages]
Also Wodehouse Code of the Woosters1 [RG] which we read aloud now instead of Kincaid2.
Very warm weather.
German ×××× [indecipherable] pogroms because of Vom Rath3's assassination.*
We burn 1 cord of wood a week = 3 cubic metres at 110 fr [francs] + sawing.
Ordered 4 more.
Later
* We learn that they4 started ¼ hour before the shot was fired.

Editorial Notes

1 The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse. London: H. Jenkins, 1938. eds.
2 British Social Life in India by Dennis Kincaid. London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1938. eds.
3Ernst vom Rath (1909-38), German diplomat eds.
4i.e. the Nazis KG

Hands Referenced

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

People Mentioned

  • Wodehouse

    Wodehouse
    Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881-1975), author and humourist eds.
  • Kincaid

    Kincaid, Dennis
    author (1905-37) eds.

Bibliography

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    • Author: Riding, Laura
    • Date: 1935
    • Title: Castle-Keeper, The [children's story; unpublished?]
    • Author: Graves, Robert
    • Date: 1938-10-30
    • Title: Collected Poems [1938]
    • Author: Graves, Robert
    • PubPlace: London, Toronto, Melbourne & Sydney
    • Publisher: Cassell and Co. Ltd
    • Idno: A48
    • Date: 1938
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    • Author: Riding, Laura [contributor; with Sally Graves, Sir Edward Marsh et al]
    • Editor: Riding, Laura
    • PubPlace: London
    • Publisher: Chatto & Windus
    • Date: 1938-11
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    • Author: Graves, Robert
    • PubPlace: London
    • Publisher: Cassell
    • Idno: A47
    • Date: 1937-07-21