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Graves' diary manuscript includes 1546 pages including 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games, etc.
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for the next issue of Epiloguenot much change needed.
Riding is also going over big handsome girl.
Correspondence with
Antigua, Penny, PuceI, Claudiusabsolutely cheap nonsense strung on historical absurdities.
Upon finishing his read-through, he wrote angrily to Korda.
At dinner with the filmmaker later in the month Graves gives his opinion in person, and persuade
Graves himself feverishly rewrites the script - more than 100 pages in two days - and is pleased when the typist came & said how much they all (in the scenario typing bureau) liked the stuff.
Korda reads it over and pronounces it a good second stage.
Later he tells Graves the scenario won't be finished until sometime in November.
A Trojan EndingSchools
This month Graves is plagued by illness and the recurrence of a painful boil, which hampers his movement and hinders his social plans. At one point he is in such pain that he manage
But he and Riding continue to entertain friends at home, even though Graves clearly lacks energy. By the end of the month, his enforced inactivity leads to weight gain - or at least his perception of weight gain.
The news that
Towards the end of the month, Graves records an amusing anecdote in the diary: At a housewarming party for The chief trouble was