Wednesday Ap 1st
Hung up map of Spain. In the place of Deyá appears Palomera: this is a mistake. Jaime I11th-century Spanish king who defeated the Moors on Mallorca and ruled peacefully for several decades. eds landed at 'Palomera' near an island, probably Dragonera: so possibly Andraitx is intended: or Banalbufar.
Finished
Ch
chapter
XIV started XV (9
pp
pages
)of Antigua eds.
Harrison Smith want to distribute Seizin Books.
Fine day. Slight cold, first this year.
Dug out dahlias for replanting.
Bathed: water warm enough for it to be a pleasure.
Found narcissus growing wild in cracks of rock above small calacove K.G..
Laura dictating
Troy, etc K.G. to Karl in the Francisca room in the evening: To H-S. & Constable.
Went to bed feeling not too good.
Thursday Ap 2
Heavy head.
Publication date of O.S.S. in England: 6th in U.S.A.
Yellow tulip out.
Planted dahlias.
Heavy boiratic day: no sun.
To sea again, recovered pin tie-pin I left on the rocks yesterday: wrote 9
pp
pages
finishing Chapter XVof Antigua eds.. Only two more, it looks like.
Wrote to John G. about help promised for Antigua.
Another camelia out. Marguerite bush in full flower.
Refused to pay bill from Sabater, via Estanco
, for 252 pesetas for letter paper.
Seeds coming up. Nice letter from David.
GardenStone tables still lying about, and depositoresevoir K.G. beginnings in a forlorn mess waiting for political activity as a result of the Ap.12 elections.
Checked Poetry & Philosophy for Laura.
Epilogue almost ready.
Winter probably over now: no fires since March 9th or so.
All the same had fire this evening to keep off the damp. Gelat came and Medora. Apparently water-appeal is being withdrawn. Gelat is going to be Mayor and the Rights will withdraw. Gelat has a 'collar' for the Señormaster, or owner eds. of Sa Pedrissa, having looked at his
'contribution' – can make him pay 2000 pesetas for his land, 5 years back in arrears. If the Dr wants to go to Palma he must ask Gelat for permission then...Sweated out cold with
Cafiaspirin
Cafiapirina
, rum, hot orange.
Ap 3. Friday.
Boirà.
Heavy cold, but only in head.
Got up late.
Gelat will not pursue the matter of the Dr's medicines so as not to get the Secretario
complicated
implicated
. Pedrissa, Son Bauza, & Boy will even if they make this arreglodeal K.G. have to apply to G for special water.
Checked Laziness. 4 pages
of Chapter XVI, Antigua.
Laura went over my poems, chose 3 for Epilogue. Scrapped Enemy in Saddle, Receipt for Moneys and
No One Can Guess. (Others all right for book publication) Did a little work on the 3 for Epilogue. Helped Laura choose hers.
L.H. reports complications about the book: Savage behind committee.
Biog.
Biography
material all right, but letters objected to. Wrote to him. Will have to compromise, rather than not publish.
Found much more Epilogue than we had expected. Already half way to the next issue.
Ap 4 Saturday.
Felt better.
Windy day: sun.
Went over Stealing once more. Epilogue will be ready by tomorrow.
8
pp
pages
of Epilogue.
Ch
chapter
16
Antigua eds..
Elections are postponed because of
Soc
Socialist
Republican disagreements with Communists. But there withll be an Ayuntamento GestoraTownhall Administration K.G. of G's party anyhow.
Medico, frightened, eats dirt before Ques & Castaner. Retires from politics, tries to arrange that G shall not be alcaldemayor K.G., for the family's sake.
Alicecat eds. had mixed kittens in the press-room basket. Ali
Laura left her a black one.
Another tailor refers to card game "66" eds..
Ap 5 Sunday
Hot day
6
pp
pages
of Ant.(Chapter 16)
Went over Epilogue with Laura all afternoon and completed it.
Good reviews of O.S.S.
Real Thos WyattMedici print KG; i.e.not the Illustrated London News reproduction of a Wyatt engraving mentioned in January? eds came.
Sch & Strenge to supper.
Ap Monday 6
Palma at 11.
Wasted a lot of time
Pedro, Catalina; Anita, Magdalena.
Fiesta of Ramos
Easter K.G.. Bought fine work basket 8 pesetas. wooden shaving bowl, 2.50
pts
pesetas
. Pensión at Grand Hotel. Saw French film
Variété
1925 eds.(acrobatics & jealousy).
Slept badly owing to French couple honeymooning actively between 1 and 2.15. No word spoken, only activity & eructations.
Then cocks, trams
& hammering next
door.
EPiLOGUE II went off.
Palma
Ap Monday
Tuesday 7
Yesterday At the FeriaEaster Fair K.G. a 10 centimo fortune-telling apparatus prophesied a small inheritance.
I had never had one before & today it came: 1/70th residuary legatee of my paternal grandfather's estate
trust fund for my Aunt Lily (born 1810 - died 1899) —
£18.7
s
shillings
0.
Very tired.
Drew pension; bought Laura old diamond and small-sapphire ring for 150
p
pesetas
.
Laura dictated letters to Karl. I went to Casas. Nothing.
She bought me white socks & shoes. I bought myself black shoes.
Visited pottery factory bought pots & under-pieces.
Victorian dinner service of 61 pieces at Margarita Mateu's for 100 pesetas.
In the evening saw the worst film ever filmed. Vanessa1935 eds.: a Hugh Walpole story with Robert Montgomery & Helen Hayes.
Ap 8
Wedneday
Wednesday
Laura engaged Antonia a girl from Arta: to come tomorrow for a week on trial. Bought new Remington portable typewriter for 550 pesetas, got 150 pesetas back on other.
Laura makes Sabater admit sending in a 257 peseta bill twice.
Slept better last night. Bought things at Gordiolaglass shop K.G. crazy vase for 16
pes
pesetas
, 6 tumblers, etc.
Went to the antique-shop behind Cathedral. Bought
2 |
Bristol blue vases |
20 |
1 |
fruit stand with old mauve top |
10 |
1 |
white & gold jug |
10 |
1 |
old pink skirt |
5 |
2 |
pieces embroidery |
2 |
1 |
flower vase |
4 |
1 |
lustre mug |
8 |
1 |
Goya pink & blue mug |
15 |
1 |
tiny bluegrey mug |
1 |
1 |
white barrel jug |
5 |
2 |
lustre candlesticks |
15 |
1 |
cruet |
10
|
|
|
for 100
p.
pesetas
|
Gelat busy: arranged that Ayuntamientolocal administration K.G. will resign. Water business: 'Boy' won't sign, but will probably. Road: he is summoned to Madrid to declare again. Quiet lunch at Lena's.
Back at 6. Hotel bill 160 pesetasfor three people K.G.. In all spent about 1100 pesetas.
Ap 9 Thursday.
Boirà on hills.
Arranged new purchases in the house.
Did two pages of Ant. couldn't work.
Put pots into the patiocourtyard K.G.. One box-tree is badly withered by the sea airs. One laurel is dead.
The new maid did not turn up.
Reorganized my window ledge and table.
Loquats ripe.
Went to bed early not feeling well. read Murder of the Only Witness
Murder of the Only Witness(1933) by J. S. Fletcher eds..
Walnut trees in leaf.
Ap 10 Friday (Good Friday)
Rained in the morning a bit.
Heavy day. Bad head.
Laura & I did
Seizin List.
Fuller wrote a long letter about Ant. which I answered.
Morley says O.S.S. is going well.
To the sea with SolomonGraves' dog eds.. Did not bathe.
Laura back in her summer workroom.
(To bed early)
The Doctor is ill: to avoid going to Palma to see Ques.
Made out Income tax refund claim.
Gelat & Pedro came late: asking for a note to Hillgarth for him to write a note to the War Minister
Carlos Masquelet Lacaci eds. about L & me. Wrote it. They are going to Madrid on Wednesday.
Ap 11 Sat.
A bit better. Heavy windless rain.
Finished Chapter XVIof Antigua. eds 8 pages.
Wrote to Roz & Sam. Later: Wrote 10 pages of
Chapter
XVII
Carmine tulip out. No-me-verras-sin-sols
nunca-me-verás-sin-sols"you-won't-see-me-without-the-sun" K.G. & Marguerites at their best. Anemones still flowering well, Garden roses out now and a few car summer carnations (yellow, & lilac). We have had climbing roses from the olive-tree bushes for some weeks.
Dummy & production estimate for Convalescent Conversations & for Almost Forgotten Germany.
Ap 12 Easter Sunday
Lovely day.
10
pp
pages
finishing Chapter XVII and 2 of Chapter XVIIIof Antigua eds. which is the last probably.
Jorrocks' Jaunts
Jorrick's Jaunts & Jollities (1928) by Robert Smith Surtees eds. came, & Ferrier's novels.
Excellent press for Old S.S. Still 66card game eds. every day. I have made the last 4 tailorsrefers to card game eds.. Karl failed once.
Laura starts Troy again.
Bernado's wife gave us 24 eggs as an Easter gift.
Bathed: water quite warm.
Wrote to Honor.
Ap 13 Easter Monday.
Finished Antigua first go over.
Took pot of anemones to the Bernardos & another to Maria Font Fresc.
In the
village some Islip people brought a message from Mr Neale.
Two consejalescouncillors K.G. won't resign in spite of the Medico's & Pedro Canpusevé's pleas.
Hillgarth is writing to Masqualet.
Going over Ant. (first three chapters).
Apparently cured but shall go onwith medicine K.G. for another fortnight.
Read Honor's Chapter VII.
Ap 14. Day of the Republic Tuesday
Long letter to A.G.
Put things away in attic – books.
Antigua, various parts of it.
Sunless day. Wind.
Took Henry Wiatt Thomas Wyatt K.G.; see April 5 eds. to be framed in moreymulberry-wood K.G..
Laura not well, went to bed.
I fell asleep on my sofa in the afternoon.
SmithBlacksmith K.G. came again to ask about design of the bannisters – now nearly done.
Ap 15 Wednesday
Strong bad wind.
Added to
Chap
Chapter
11 for Antigua: for Karl to type. It will amount to 70,000words K.G..
The Parish Council divided: two of them refuse to resign, still. So nobody resigns.
Forms for refund of U.S. income tax came.
Pedro, Catalina & the Tia Maria of San Corté said goodbye.
Have reached
p
page
84 in the going on.
Ap 16 Thursday
Antigua.
At 1 o clock went to Palma and saw Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times(Painful.) With Str & Schw & Karl.
Sawardconsular employee? K.G. 'notarized' my income tax claims for U.S.
Laura bought herself a fountain pen & me two new ties.
This was the day that HecatataHecate K.G.
the black cat with white markings on her chest (who never would have anything to do with us) was badly wounded (by Alicecat eds.?)and had to be shot by a cousin of Antonia's. Buried by me near the bridge.
Ap 17th Friday.
Dreadfully cold wind.
Laura gave me her old Parker DuophoneDuofold K.G. with which I write this. The nib has been damaged slightly but it
is isn't
isn't
bad. Mended the nib, but spoilt the valve.
Gelat is going to Madrid tomorrow. Monday week the ayuntamientotown council K.G. will be removed if it does not previously resign. Yesterday it was going to be molestaredinconvenienced eds. – called to account for irregularities – but the Civil Governor had a row at the Desfileparade K.G. on the Day of the Republica about the presence of a canonicoclergyman K.G. on the balcony. Probably then today.
A wire has just come for the Mayor from Palma. Gelat related all this & then we went to Can Mado via the Piñets, and had a sobrasadasausages K.G. & wine & bread & olives meal at the Fabrica.
Madora with face inflamed by
toothe ache
toothache
.
Passed a marvellous picnic party coming from the sea. Werner, Broadwood niece, Proxy sister, Abelin, Butifara? KG painter, Herpes, the Pansy. (Jammerlich
Jämmerlich is the German for miserable
: K.G. suggests Graves is referring to Frau Emmerich. K.G./eds. & the Krasniks had not attended owing to internal dissensions)
Sat. Ap 18th.
Cold wind. Gelat did not go to Madrid because of general strike there (on account of
fascist activities not properly controlled) and bad sea. Yesterday's wire was a round up of Fascists.
Worked over First Trial chapter (XII)of Antigua eds. in the light of Fuller's legal advice.
Went down to sea. Hot in the sun.
(Pedro and Catalina still in Palma)
First Sweet Williams out at Can Torrent; and yellow carnations.
Margarita told Str.
Canellun doesn't always come here: that's only natural. They have half-share in the Sala café. But they always buy meat.
So we visited her this afternoon & had beer,
whisky
whiskey
& soda, coffee etc – Krasniks disgusted to find us in their café. Abelin & Werner outcast because
suspected of denouncing Krasnik and Leman (in Austria & Germany), but still have Ickes and the Proxies as friends.
Sunday Ap 19.
Cold still.
We had a fire last night in the Mesquida.
Thomas
Wiatt
Wyatt
framed.
Finished the trial chapterof Antigua eds. (31
pp
pages
) but too messy for typing yet.
Cleaned it up late at night.
There was a slight trouble with the light at Can Mado so they put on the jolty motor at the Fabrica.
First Midges this year.
Monday Ap 20.
Today I consider A.P.P. finished apart from
obvious jacking-up & corrections. And today I am stopping my medicine, as cured at last — 5 months.
Broke the
Wiatt
Wyatt
glass so took it again to Miguel whom I took to the Posada for measurements of lavatory seat, lavatory door, well-head beams.
Gelat went to Madrid today.
Because of working by bad light last night couldn't do much today; but cleared away necessary letters.
Tuesday Ap 21.
Going word by word through Ant (first 42
pp
pages
) for discrepencies. Carl typed
Ch
Chapter
11, & I went through that too.
At 12
o'c
o'clock
Marjorie Launder & Alan Bartlett turned up from Soller, friends of James: she a schoolmistress, he an official at the Ministry of Agriculture. They stopped to lunch. Afterwards to the Posada & finding the church open, L. K, & they went in (she borrowed my hat). I stayed outside with SolomonGraves' dog eds.. The cura showing off before two nuns said: Eso es intolerable. Que salgen. No pueden entrar en este edificio sin mi permiso.
This is intolerable. Let them leave. They may not enter this building without my permission.
K.G.
Laura wrote a letter to the Fomento de TurismoPalma Tourist Office K.G., with the other three as witnesses, to complain.
Letters from Constable to Laura about H.S. business – want to deal themselves at 5% commission. And theatrical letter from Gordon. And from Yeats asking for Laura's poems: perhaps she will refuse as 'her 'husband' had already done.
Warmer: a little rain.
Wednesday. Ap 22
Working over Ant. all day. To the sea, but did not bathe: without SolomonGraves' dog eds. for a change. Several Four different sorts of orchid seen.
Laura wrote letter to Fomento de TurismoPalma Tourist Office K.G. about the Cura: on a blank signed by Bartlett & Launder.
New moon for money.K.G. adds Bowed to...
. eds
Heavy weather.
Ap 23rd Thursday.
Sam & David write to say they are coming in the summer. Sam sends ship picture. Wrote to A.G. and to L.H.
Ant. slowly. Have got to
p
page
143, jacking-up all the time.
Laura has bad throat still: went to bed early with it.
Wire from Gelat from Madrid: 'Todo va bien'
All goes well
K.G.. Laura's denunciacomplaint K.G. of the Cura forwarded to AzañaRepublican Cabinet Minister in Madrid K.G..
Laura has chill from not going to bed after a late hot bath on Tuesday.
Reading Letters of Susan Ferrier
Memoirs and Correspondence of Susan Ferrier 1782-1854 by S. Ferrier, John Andrew, and John Ferrier (1898).
Gave Schw a Can Pabo Rose, from the Posada
,.
Ap 24th Friday.
Working over Antigua, Karl typing 'insertions' me inserting them.
* Sent off Trial chapterof Antigua eds. & letter to W. Fuller.
Hot day.
Tom has reviewed O.S.S. well in Time.
The pansy-geranium from Miguel fetched & planted.
The first strawberry.
Wild cyclamen first noticed.
Ap 25 Saturday.
Lovely day.
First white climbing roses.
First passion flower.
The anemones still go on.
Antigua gone over as far as
p
page
176 and all insertions gummed in. Will probably reach 270
pp
pages
or more.
To sea, but did not bathe. The last two days too rough, today too sea-weedy.
Marjorie & Allan came to the Fonda from Soller. We had supper there & afterwards saw a 1910 (?) Chaplin film, about motor races.
SolomonGraves' dog eds. now keeps faithfully to heel all the time.
Laura started actually writing 'Troy' again. She is bad with throat still but continues to smoke and won't see a Doctor.
Ap 26 Sunday. Presidential elections. (Centre &
R
Right
withdraw)
Have jacked up Antigua (making a table of dates) as far as Chapter XIV. Now transcopying, to have a spare copy. Have done 3 chapters.
No letters, these days.
Hot.
To sea, but somehow didn't feel like bathing.
Punch in the evening with Str & Schw. Alan and Marjorie & Karl. Punch had wild strawberries in, and superior champagne.
A. & M. had nothing to say for themselves.
Lefts of Deyá polled 96 votes
Ap 27 Monday.
Antigua – jacking up Chapter XV & transcopying Chapter 4, 5 and 6.
Whole batch of excellent O.S.S. reviews.
Wrote to Richards. Walked down the valley, up by Son Bauza.
Gelat returned. Had seen the expedienteproceedings K.G. & defended himself to Masquelet, who gave him a solemn assurance that all was well. In the expediente report, derived from the expedienteproceedings K.G., lies and omissions which Gelat and his lawyer answered. G. & L. both vaguely accused of nefarious
antecedents. There is some Palma Staff-Colonel who has done this. G. also got proceedings against carabineroscoast guards K.G. dropped.
He brought us a fine leash (vellum halfthalter eds.) for SolomonGraves' dog eds..
Tea with M. and A. at Can Torrent.
Masquelet will pass through Deyá one of these days.
Honor wrote to Mrs Glover
Gordon Glover's mother? eds saying that if she was there, she'd slap her face.
Ap 28 Tuesday.
Antigua Jacked up
Ch
Chapter
.16 (dividing old
Ch
Chapter
16 into 2) and transcopied
ch
Chapter
7.
Haircut, found my lost brown scarf there.
Cold day. (No rain yet. Yesterday
is
it
sprinkled) but sun. No midges.
Blackberries spreading dangerously: sending some plants to Str & Schw.
£160, surprisingly, from Germany.
Maria Murciana cleaning Posada.
Laura a bit better.
To sea (rough & dirty), brought M & A back to tea, showing them rare wildflowers in the Vinyet.
Transcopied
ch
Chapter
7. went over typing of 14 13.of Antigua eds.
A & M came to coffee and said goodbye. Come next summer
"I'm afraid we'll not be able to afford it. By next summer we'll have children I hope."
Ap 29th. Wednesday.
Laura wrote firmly in reply to an flattering insolent letter of Yeats about anthologies.
Antigua. Transcopied
Chs
Chapters
9 and 10 and 11. and jacked up XVII (new style).
To Posada, which is being cleaned.
Heavy weather.
Agreed to have picnic with the Fabrica on Friday (May Day).
Went over typing of
Ch.
Chapter
14. Wrote draft of foreword.
Strenge told us long & dreadful story of Emmerich's punch party. (Emmerich's stinginess and greed, & the niece feeding Krasnik's dog on sly with cake, & pointing out that E. was getting all the best things to eat.)
Dahlias sprouting.
Thursday Ap. 30th
The Water AudienciaHearing K.G.
No audienciahearing K.G. after all. It has been postponed until June because of Fascist trials (son of Son Morages in jail) & may fail then. Only Boy and the Señormaster, or owner eds. of Pedrissa are still in and the latter comes from France next week.
Dealt myself a tailorrefers to cardgame "66" eds. last night.
We are having fires in the evening.
A close day. There'll be no fruit this year worth mentioning.
Finished jacking-up Antigua. Now only Laura's & Bill Fuller's corrections.
Sebastian took out tulips, which are now over.
Strong letter to Ivor Nicholson about my inclusion in the cigarette cards series of 'Celebrated Living Authors'.
Henry WiattSir Thomas Wyatt K.G. see April 5 eds. returned. Miguel senior put in gauze-frames at Can Torrent.