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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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This month sees much work by Collected Poemsfor the severalth time, to
Later in the
month he sends the collection to the publisher. He also drafts two new poems
- one about being cross, and one (suggested by The World and Ourselves
Riding is working on Lives of WivesAristotle
), and Year of DamageRimbaudFurniture
At the castle (shouting in exasperation at
It is
decided that Modeste will be let go, although as soon as the decision is
announced, her culinary skills improve: We are glad that Modeste is
going, but she is sad and doing exceptionally good cooking - the best
baked-custard ever, for example.
There is also evidence that the
castle is haunted - both
disastrous
upcoming marriage to deliberately quarrelled with
In the diary Graves notes the second anniversary of his and Riding's leaving
Belisariussolves
Food is a highlight this month: Graves writes fondly of sponge cake
bought at
and relishes the morning by
ourselves grinding coffee half-roasted at Montauban: made first decent
coffee since we arrived in France.
Graves and Beryl pick four pounds
of blackberries in half an hour by the lake, and Graves tries his hand at
making greengage jam. As August ends, the nights become chillier, and the
four friends spend evenings by the fire telling stories, while Hitler's
threat to invade Czechoslovakia looms in the shadows.
There are two enclosures this month:
(draft of a poem byAssumption Day