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The same poem: tentatively finished in eight drafts – two days, 12 lines. The Wretch
Schools
Three best reviews of T. Ending
Another draft of The Wretch
Wild delphiniums & narcissus from
Began
Headache at night.
Gave notice that we are leaving by June 1st.
Ghostrd chapter.
Wrote letters to children, also In ParenthesisIn Parenthesis by
Wrote a letter about it.
Letter from
Another draft of The WretchPoets
Working with Schools
Beer at
Spotted orchids & wild narcissus.
Schools
Syndicalist revolt in
Finished draft of Chapter III Ghost
Moth found in
Walk behind station in a wooded valley: many wildflowers – ragged-robin, Star of Bethlehem, & a sort of
leather vellum bound (1629) letters of some Cardinal & a Byzantine (12th
Petty ill-lucks. Sore mouth, stopping lost from tooth, splinter in foot when answering a door to a bleating clergyman who addressed me as Mr Page.
Went over
Took coin to be made into brooch.
Black-out as air-raid precaution all over
To a dentist & had nerve of tooth slowly killed.
Rest of day rather miserable
Strawberries & Cream when
A brandy at
To bed soon after supper.
Trying to go over
Ghost
Schools
Going over poems retyped by
Started poems about the couple I once metThe Strangers
Coffee with coffee
More work on poems; & on the new one.
Went into
Three answers to
Schools
Thundery weather.
Working on the poem still: no title yet. Going over other poems typed by
Ghost
People seeing over the house: more from curiosity than really wanting to let it.
Thunderstorm.
Paid rent for the last time.
Goodbye to
It rained all day & all night.
Started Chapter IV of The Stranger
English tourists wearing red white & blue, & a party at the Consul's, to which I was not invited.
Critical days in
Fine, then much rain.
Another version of The StrangerThe Last March
Work on Ghost
She has bad nights again
Claudius
First news of
Hunter
Another version of Last March
Work on Ghost
To
Nearly finished Ghost
Boil much better.
Another draft of
Going over
Got my coin-brooch back.
At 66, for a tailor, lost each time.
Woke with a sick headache, ate no breakfast, Took an aspirin & walked to
All right for
Finished Ghost
I lost a few francs.
Woke up with a headache.
Walked it off up
Brought back a mixed bunch of wild flowers: pasqueflowers, narcissus, wild lupins, ragged robin, marguerite – etc.
In afternoon got it again & went slept it off.
In evening worked on Poems
(Heavy weather, Whitsun crowds)
Last of Central Heating.
It was a heavy wretched day: went with
PoemsThe Victory
Started Ghost
We cannot have the th
Insomnia problem of
Read her Miscellaneous CriticismColeridge's Miscellaneous Criticism by
Walk at evening to
Started a poem about the ghosts, the pupil of the heartOr To Perish Before Day
Still heavy weather.
No answer from
Two more drafts of poem, now called Or To Perish Before Day
Feeling the weight of exile more than ever. Discussion of next step: money, publishing, friends etc.
Ghost
Ghost
Heavy rainy weather.
Going over Poems
Wrote a Daily Telegraph
First review of HeathenTimes.Lit.Supp.
GhostPoems
An article on SpectatorInk of Poppies
Very nice letters from
Boil has started up again the last few days – no sun, I suppose.
Spanish news bad.
First fine day for a week.
Went to dentist to have a nerve taken out: too lively after two killings.
Poems
* First serious talk of general withdrawal of volunteers, to which all countries concerned will pledge themselves.
Hot day. Could not settle down to work, somehow, until late in the evening when I wrote six drafts of Leaving the Rest Unsaid
Wrote letter to
Spent several hours with
Worked on Poems
Wrote a long letter to
Reassuring letter from
Government offensive at
Poems
Work on poems.
Have lost a lot of unnecessary weight.
Reading Experiences of a New Guinea
R.M.
Our
Going over Poems
In
Thundery weather
Government bombardment of
Thundery day.
Finished Chapter V draft.
Finished going over Poems
Devil ChildDevil-Doll
1936 directed by Tod Browning eds.
Ghost
Poems
Walk nearly every day over the
Scabious
A walk to
Reading over her
Very hot weather.
Reading Hart Crane life by P. HortonHart Crane: Life of an American Poet by Philip Horton. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., inc., 1937. eds.
League of Nations resolution about Spain & withdrawal of volunteers.
Deutchland
bombed at
Rearranged order of Poems
Worked on an account of my early poems: tore it up.
Ghost
Letter to Harrison Smith
Sinking of the
Cuidad de Barcelona
Bombardment of
Fireflies and an Emperor Hawk moth(?)
Again writing an account of my early poems.
Checking Poems
Letters from various people in answer to our
Very hot.
Bought a