Oct 1, Tuesday
Finished
A.F.T.
Almost Forgotten Times
Chapter XXXV. Started A.F.T.
Chapter XXXVI. Went round garden with Laura deciding on whereabouts of plants & bushes. Took a cutting of the yellow & green leafed bush which Joän gave us.
To sea. Isabel M. wired about her going to New York on the 18th. Richards returned second batchfor Old Soldier Sahib eds & sent corrections, which I gave Karl to type after I had gone over them.
Letters to Morley asking for return of first batch, to Richards acknowledging, to Sanders paying a/c.
Heavy weather, distant lightning but no rain. To village with
L
Laura
&
Magd.
Magdalena
Marcus
Bernardo Colom's son WG has disgustostrouble. KG with the orchestra it seems.
Oct 2 Wednesday.
Gas drum changed.
Incorporated
OSS
Old Soldier Sahib
corrections. Gelat came, & talked for 2 hours about things — removal of olive trees, Valldemossa electric scheme (but not until everything is settled about hours of water), the Sala café & the importance of keeping it under our control.
AliceLaura's cat eds brought her many
3 of her four kittens to Canellun (drain-pipe). Pepe came & Gelat, he & we worked out position of new casitashed. KG at Can Torrent.
Two men now working at the fuentespring (above Can Torrent) KG in search of water for the house: went there with Gelat. Very little water is needed for the garden, & since this is October in a dry year if water is found it is likely to last all the year round. To Margarita to try on my coat after many months; heard wireless news of invasion of Abyssinia by the Italians & of a possible Anglo-French naval rapprochment
rapprochement: combination of forces? eds.
Finished
A.F.T.
Almost Forgotten Times
Chapter XXXVI & started A.F.T.
Chapter XXXVII. To Café where failed to get DaventryIs Graves referring to Daventry the town in the English Midlands as a source of BBC broadcasts? WG/eds news but played Parchesi with Juan & Modern Girl & A.N.OTHER & won.
Oct 3 Thursday.
Finished
A.F.T.
Almost Forgotten Times
Chapter XXXVII began A.F.T.
Chapter XXXVIII. Antonio the guitarrist &
Ant
Antonio
the Murcian trying out the spring, but short of pulling down the wall can only find a trickle of 10-15 litres an hour.
Today the Judge came on his inspection:concerning the water rights controversy? eds
Gelat arranged that neither of the lawyers should come out with him, and that the news of his coming should not be given out until 1 o'clock when it would be impossible to send a wire to Deyá, so that only Gelat himself was there when the Judge turned up. A very windy day.
Morley sent an agreement for
O.S.S.
Old Soldier Sahib
(doesn't like the title but hasn't a better) for me to approve for Richards. Sent back for alteration of translation-rights commission (33 1/3% was too high) & ditto serialization rights, & omission (on the other hand) of a cheap edition clause. Wrote to Richards about this.
To Margaritas with Laura — tried on my jacket.
Oct 4 Friday San FranciscoSt. Francis' Day. eds
Heavy rain at 8 o'clock & then showers.
Finished
A.F.T.
Almost Forgotten Times
Chapter XXXVIII. Only one left now. Amador getting green olives for salting. Told of first fighting in Abyssinia.
Finished A.F.T.
Chapter XXXIX which is the last of the book: Karl has still 11 sheets to type.
Gelat came with Solomon'sGraves' dog's. eds kennel & Miguel creosoted it. Gelat & I went up to view the spring: no good: went higher & found quite a good one — perhaps 30 or 50 litres an hour, more by searching. Settled accounts with him, including carpenter's bill. He had mended the donkey carreton.
cart. KG Went with him in afternoon to Can Medó for apples, grapes & beans. To Posada: well nearly done.
Laura dissatisfied with Magdalena who finds life lonely: & Isabel's careful touch is missed. (Gelat spoke to her.) To village: heard wireless news of Adowa advance.
Damas de nochenight-flowering shrub. KG budding.
Oct 5 Saturday.
Went over
A.F.T.
Almost Forgotten Times
Chapter XXXII to end; Karl having typed so far now. Wrote declining to send handwriting specimen to Sunday Times Book
Exh.
Exhibition
Laura in last stages of her Decline of Prophecy struggle.
Sebastian transplanted Sweet Williams. Rosa brought my pink silk shirt. Hair cut. Tried on hand-made coat with Rosa.
Went over some
pp
pages
of Richards.
Old Soldier Sahib. eds
Posada well done, except for a small 10-minute job which Matias will do tomorrow. At Fábrica heard Medora's dos alegriasdouble joys. KG: her daughter comes tomorrow & Gelat has gainedfrom ganada: won. KG his case, with costs: but this is not official until Monday.
James Reeves book specimen came finally: appears all right after all.
Missing
pp
pages
of
OSS
Old Soldier Sahib
came from Morley.
Laura wrote to Constables about necessity of hurrying.
Oct 6 Sunday.
Transcopied & corrected
O.S.S.
Old Soldier Sahib
Statement from Barker (£6 underestimated).
Magdalena sad, so Laura glad to let her go. I cooked Sunday round of beef. (Sabater sent proofs — 1 sheet short & a glaring new misprint.
Ana & Juan & Juanita came: Gelat advised neutrality during their stay.Ana/Anita, Gelat's daughter from Rennes, was married to the Médico's brother — hence the warning. KG Brought Laura a mackintosh.
Went to see Francisquito's mother, promised
Fr.
Francisquito
a present tomorrow.
Karl's razorRolls razor. KG apparently stolen in the posts.
Oct 7 Monday.
Turbines again.
Went to Palma, dropping Magdalena at Valldemossa, who left without a proper goodbye & 1/2 a month's pay — having at the last moment repented & blamed it on a cold — but no!
Raining hard, but later cleared up. Cashed pension cheque rapidly (because of the rain) & also got 26% (375
p
pesetas
) from Credito Balearthe(bankrupt)Bank. KG & a certificate about the rest. Bought a coral necklace for Laura to make up for one given to Isabel. Silk stuff for blue shirt. Various old cotton handkerchiefs at Margaritas & two blue plates horse & flowers; & peasant woman & salmonetes. Decided against dragon picture. Laura found a decent umbrella shop at last in the Jaime IIa street in Palma, possibly named after Jaume II, who ruled an independent Mallorca in the 13th century. eds. Bought Karl a hat. Laura got a pair of pig-skin shoes, cheap — made to measure by a foreign woman & then abandoned.
Official 'fallo'verdict. KG of water-case. Visit to
Schw.
Schwarz
and
Str
Strenge
's new flat by the Taberna VascaBasque Tavern? eds. He gave Laura a beautiful emerald-matrix silver-gilt ring, in an old shagreen ring-box. Sabater gentle and offered to reprint first page with corrections: L. offered to share the expense. He will send the stuff off to Constables. Bought blue filing cases.
Talk of getting a Jewish girl, whom Karl knows, a Hitler victim, to work: but later decided against possible complications after an illuminating talk.
To village: thunder & lightning. Played parchesi with L &
Gelat. Won.
SolomonGraves' dog. eds spent day with Catalina, at her house.
No more mosquito nets.
Casitashed. KG work began
Oct 8 Tuesday.
To Palma village: no ice.
No head for SolomonGraves' dog. eds at Margarita's, who is annoyed at our going to the Sala: so made arregloarrangement. KG at the CasHouse of. WG
Ferrer.the other butcher in the village[?] eds
Transcopying
O.S.S.
Old Soldier Sahib
First dahlia. Fine day, rained later.
In garden, cut back carnations, planted cuttings of it. Took cuttings of geraniums. Took cuttings of fuchsia to put in a fabijar. KG. Nice letter from Sally Graves.
Horace Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting came. Planted grey-green cuttings along depositoreservoir. KG side. Laura slowly at Troy.
In evening Laura went to bed & Karl & she & I played 66
German card-game — a kind of whist or pinochlo, with loose rules. KG with her: she won, 8 games in a row, Karl hardly a point, me forging ahead. When she & I played alone I won 8 in a row & then lost one & then won. The streaks of luck were not easy to account for.
Problem of cats: 3 grown kittens wild — too many.
Oct 9, Wednesday.
O.S.S.
Old Soldier Sahib
is now complete up to date in both copies — about 60,000 words.
Wire from Constable about giving
Mss
manuscripts
to Beck to print. Laura replied.
Men came to fix the stone tables: Gelat is waiting until Castañer's departure before he gives us the good ones: the ones we have are only cement. Went to village, met Gelat in the Clot gathering apples near Peñaranda'sa doctor friend of Dr Antonio Vives. WG house. Best I have tasted in Mallorca. Cleaned my glass pebbles. Planted stock seeds. Men put up two table columnascolumns. KG.
Sun & showers and a rainbow exactly across the sea. Gelat brought apples.
Turbine lighting very bad. Juan traced it to some electrical burden put on the line by the millonario. When that was removed all was well. Parchesi with Gelat, L, & Magdalena. Ate sardines & sobrasadaMajorcan sausage. KG at the old café. Margarita wanted to know if I was still angry. Was.
Later went to ask
G. if there was anything on his mind. Laura & I thought there might be about I & J? KG talking in the café. There wasn't. Wrote to Hillgarth about the Dia
Palma's daily newspaper. KG and its anti-English English page.
Two blanket weather.
Oct 10 Thursday Moon nearly full.
To village for cigarettes: visited Posada where water now in well. Syringa in bud: took cuttings. Went over garden with Laura: we decided on new crescent bed. Planted cuttings of yellow creeper, & of wall flowers
snapdragons.
Two more drafts of Moments in NeverSee June 12-13. eds: now called Proofs of Royalty & then Laura went over it with me.
Packed up folding bed.
Workmen not working at Casitashed. KG.
Row of geraniums cleared out & replanted with cuttings.
To Margarita's,? or could be Margarita Modista? eds but didn't get there: instead to Fábrica: radio, with news of sanctions voted. Medora says Drthe Médico. eds & his party in Palma yesterday: may appeal.
Helped Catalina stuff aubergines & peppers for supper.
Cards (66) after with Laura.
Worked (2 drafts) on Historical Particulars.See diary entry June 25th. eds
Laura at Troy again
Oct 11 Friday
Two more drafts of Historical Particulars.
Training
S.
Solomon
Graves' dog. eds to walk properly behind.
To village: got lemons (few left) & apples from Can Juni. Medora gave me persimmons. Juan brought earth from the bosquewood of evergreen oaks. KG. Planted cuttings of hydrangea & that red plant.only acid soil available. KG
And again Historical Particulars & alterations to Gulls & Such. In afternoon planted seedbed at Can Torrent. Letter from Barker, satisfactory: mentioned Penguin (6d) Books project: I said I would agree if he wanted his £100 returned, but preferred him to do it at 2/- or 2/6'two shillings or two shillings, sixpence' eds. Money has reached him from Germany £40-£50. Telegram to Sabater. Morley wrote including Private of Buffs? Written by Frank Richards, RG, or ? Not identified. eds poem: & saying that people were coming round to
O.S.S.
Old Soldier Sahib
title, but Faber wanted it merely
S.S.
Soldier Sahib
Proof of Epilogue came: went over first part (the part already seen in galley)
Ordered things in village (sent in corals, sheepskin, & my silk trousers) on return found Laura tired so we played 66card game. eds & she won 76 points on 14 games.
Oct 12 Saturday.
Small points in
O.S.S.
Old Soldier Sahib
(Chinese dollars, Mahdi's forces, Private of Buffs). Cuttings of Can Pabo rose-tree.
Hillgarth wrote, would interview
Daily Chronicle
news-writer & take steps against offence.
Letter from Norman to
L.
Laura
sending book of poems.
It rained hard in afternoon: proofs of Epilogue by candle-light.
Letter to Michael Roberts about Faber
advertizing
advertising
: to Morley about
O.S.S.
Old Soldier Sahib
hyphen. 66a card game. KG/eds with
K
Karl
&
L.
Laura
Sala supplied with glass doors & windows.
Wrote to
A.G.
Amy Graves
Dream. Saw advertised x-shaped celluloid gadgets. Babys
Finger Separators for Babies. Keep your Baby's fingers apart: those that swallow them die, those that don't, grow up famous.
Mallorquin-
Castillian
Castilian
dictionary bought by Karl for 3
pes.
pesetas
for us.
Oct 13 Sunday.
Cooked Sunday joint: read Epilogue proofs all day; a difficult job finding original French quotations. Rain. Big hot bath.
Only distraction in day visit to Can Medo where Gelat was instructing 'Sebastian aquel' in water control, & cards in evening.
Miguel the Carpenter brought his bill: 747.20pesetas (pts.) eds.. The little round moreymulberry. KG table cost only 25pts. & the oval one 35pts. This bill included window netting, all doors & windows at Posada, two doors here.
Letter from
A.G.
Amy Graves
about Jenny's expecting her first dancing engagement, & Sam going to special schoolfor the deaf. KG at Folkestone
Oct 14, Monday.
Epilogue proofs again, all day.
Laura rectified Madeleine Vara on War.included in Convalescent Conversations (1936)? eds
To village to verify imitatecopy [?] eds in James's poem hanging at Posada. Well there appears to leak, but perhaps not.
Doctor has appealed.
Went on until 12 p.m.
Doctor is going to retire from politics.
'Arapesh' book came.
The Murcians — Pepe have made a very good job of the sea-stone terrace for
Schw
Schwarz
&
Str.
Strenge
at Can Caballo. KG
Oct 15 Tuesday
Gelat turned up: has every confidence in winning case & has right of appeal, which other side haven't. Is going to raise Can Madó
depositowater tank. KG by 1 metre. Talked with boss of doctors' union about getting in a rival into in competition with the
Dr
Doctor
: & with Mayor of Valldemossa, trouble there too.
Epilogue finished and sent off. End of a 4-5 years job. Faber & Faber agree to alterations in
O.S.S.
Old Soldier Sahib
contract.
Juan Vives ill in bed with rheumatic feet from getting feet wet, when fishing. Prescribed rhus tox 3homoeopathic medicine. KG 2 hourly from Prescriberhomoeopathic "Doctor in the House." KG; also glycerine & hot salt. Listened in at Sala
Café.The radio: for news of Abyssinia? See Oct. 2nd and 4th. eds First clear reception for 10 days.
Supper with
Schw
Schwarz
&
Str.
Strenge
Candles, fire in grate, flowers
zinnias, German hors d'oeuvres & then a young turkey, Rioja Alta wine, all thevarious accompaniments of turkey — also caraway cheese a Hartz cheese, I had never tasted before.
The Krasniks went off; a parting growl to Amoktheir Great Dane? KG from SolomonGraves' dog. eds.
Oct 16 Wednesday.
To Palma at 8.30 9.
Pancho deson of. KG Bernardo has sold his bicycle and broken out again.
Cashed 1000pts. cheque (750pts. given to Gelat to pay Miguel the Carpenter)
Sabater not ready: no paper. Made an escandaloa fuss. KG in Esperanzathe printer's. eds shouting & banging fist. Poco de verguenzaquite shameless. KG & why hadn't he replied to telegrams etc. He cried. I left without goodbye. Bought gold chain & green glass set in gold pendant 70 pts. At Casas bought set of six Columbus pictures for 55pts. for Sala; & mirror with wooden inlay for 20 pts. two Aragonese brown lustre with blue jugs for 10pts. the pair. & vellum notebook (nothing). (1792.) Got recipe for Yorkshire pudding from Short & he will send out a maid on spec. tomorrow who had been 10 years with English oldman, who died. From Malaga.a city in Andalucia, on the southern coast of Spain. eds
Steak & kidney pudding at Lena's. Laura got yards of handmadelace at 30
c
centimos
a
year
yard?
& stuff for red wool lazy-dress. Also red damask curtains for Sala. (Juan Vives better for his pills). Bought filing cases (15pts.) Also two silver rings & scarf pin: & blue earrings for Ana.
Satisfactory estimates from Beck: only 60% of Constables printers.
Daily Chronicle appeared with rather an abject
Hillgarth editorial.
Oct 17 Thursday
Put new paper in vellum notebook.
Sent bull-advertisement (Belmonte) to Sala (where pictures greatly appreciated) & took wire to village telling Beck to get on with things. Médico approached Gelat through Juan Moli's wife & Juan Vives suggesting an arregloarrangement. KG. Gelat replied he did not propose to talk to Médico, but his offer held to give the people water who had a right to it if they told what hours they wanted. Black & white wing feather of hoopoe: gift of Juan Vives.
Got down blankets & other winter things from attic. Letter from David giving sensible reasons for wanting to go to Cambridge: Oxford depressed him. Replied O.K. Application from A.A.Simpson
Poems publishable?
: replied discouragingly. Decent letter from Michael Roberts: replied. And from Arnie Lawrence: thanking for information about books: replied suggesting Mynotz HagenCol. Richard Meinertzhagen, O.C. Field Intelligence Section of Allenby's Middle East Army[?] According to K.G., he was "a T.E.L[awrence]-like character." For T.E. Lawrence film? KG/eds. Began long letter of protest to Left Review.
In evening we worked out 66card game. KG to exhaustion point. Laura got a 'Tailor'equivalent of a 'birdie' in golf. KG & Karl is owed 6
pes
pesetas
60centimos in presents.
Oct 18 Friday
Finished letter to
Left Review
.
Dahlias at their best.
Anenomes nearly all up.
Cuttings all seem to have taken.
A few roses again.
Maria Luna came for interview: seems all right, only too talkative, a little & too knowing, a little.
Dug up no-me-veras-sin-sols
you won't see me without the sun
(yellow flowers in border)KG & transplanted them across the path, with Karl's help. Also got sand to mix with the earth, for tulips.
The old woman of Calabat came in sight with a sister & the Papa. Yesterday the Papa & the Médico were hanging about the Calabat side of Canellun & their idea is to buy the terraces, we think, & plague us into rebuying them. Gelat will get hold of the son-in-law. (Tried tonight)
Schwartz came to the Sala: did not like the noise of the radio, otherwise all right.
Tired by digging & went to bed, trying to get Address to Customers right.
Oct 19th Saturday.
Rosa came: with new linen trousers for me & the collarless jacket with, red & blue, from an old skirt of handwoven cotton.
Worked all morning on final Claudius corrections mostly will & shall, should &
wood
would
— also Vesuvius, aconite, Cymbeline, Aramaic & similar points. Laura wrote to Beck.
All afternoon planting tulips (leaf mould, sand, ordinary earth) some (Clusiana) 6 inches deep (Kauffmannia) 4, others 3-4. Gave 8 to the
Str.
Strenge
&
Schw.
Schwarz
Worked without a shirt.
Seeds coming up: Scabious, poppy, Af Marigold, Madora's flower & godetia.
Sent off corrections to
A.B.
Arthur Barker
— 5
pp
pages
of corrections. To
A.G.
Amy Graves
enclosing
D
David
's letter & offering to pay
N.N.
Nancy Nicholson
for Sam's specialist.
Strenge &
Schw.
Schwarz
at Sala, where pictures now
were hung up, also red drop curtain for stage.
G.
Gelat
has first option on Calabat (and from the son-in-law.)
Catalina roast-beefed us, & later we had a hot bath.
Pancho's money having given out, he returned
Oct 20 Sunday
No criadamaid. KG today. Housework.
Reworked Address to Customers, now called Receipt for Moneys; & if Laura approves recent reworking etc now have 15 poems.
Cooked lunch. Laura working on Schools. Answered W.B.Yeats' anthology request for: Pure Death, Land of Whipperginny, Dialecticians, Landscape, & his threat to come to Mallorca this year.
Dark drizzly day. Potted out two pinks, Can Massiana flower, & two bulbs unknown.
Laura wrote to Norman
Went to Costa D'or Hotel & had fish & pork: overcharged as usual. (Heavy rain) Played 66a card game. KG there
Went over Karl's typing of
A.F.G.
Almost Forgotten Germany
title now changed from Almost Forgotten Times. KG
Laura wrote long letter to
N.R.
Nathan Reichenthal?
in answer to a nasty one of his.
Oct 21 Monday
The day Maria Luna came to us.
Work Got up at 6 & went to village to order things. Then worked all day on
A.F.G.
Almost Forgotten Germany
(200 pages). Raining.
Went to Salerosa, borrowing pinks and also wall-flower seedlings, put them in at the Posada (syringa in bloom there), where the water was up to the first join. Cutting of jasmine, or is it plumbago, from Can Bi.
Nothing from Sabater. Gelat spoke to him seriously.
'Our corner' at the Sala cleared of extra chairs.
The new woman
Anatolia
gave us good soup & grilled peppers without their peel.
Laura doing 'Schools'.
Oct 22 Tuesday
Cold, cold weather. Corduroys & heavy socks. Up early & taught M
Anatolia to get breakfast.
Men working on Casitashed. KG; making a bridge, too.
To Posada: planted violets, freezias, red geranium creeper, stuff from the tuneltunnel. eds, nasturtiums, ancharisa, passion flower. Water steady in well. Also marigolds.
Excellent
meal, from customary ingredients.
Wrote to Honor, Hillgarth.
O.S.S.
Old Soldier Sahib
has been accepted as the title: entries about dum-dum bullets & the Drunken Private's name & regimental number.
Laura cleared out my folders for me.
Investigation programme for Schools.
Aqueducts book came: thanked. Laura finished introduction to Schools: I read it over then.
More money from Germany £73 odd in all. From
H.S.
Harrison Smith
sending
O.S.S.
Old Soldier Sahib
advance, asking about Fool of RomeKG identifies this title as the film script.
Could RG have referred to the screenplay for I, Claudius under the same title as the condensed novel? eds Replied must first write to Korda. (Did so.)
Gelat in bed with cold. Juan reports 3 dedosfingers-deep. KG of snow at Valldemossa. On the way to village heard terrific crash of peñascorock-fall; lit. steep rockface.
KG. Laura reminded me of a joke of mine. It makes a blankverse line
And cellophane, the nudists' winter-wear.
Another excellent meal.
Oct 23 Wednesday
Took down Obras Publicas[Ministry of] Public Works. KG: put up Laura's story
Anatolia finds work too hard, but likes us. Her cooking justifies getting other help.
To Posada, watered the flowers, recovered
S
Salamo
's lead. Gelat
took better. Juan & J.Vives shot 3 rabbits, driving in car between olives at Valldemossa, chasing the rabbits with headlights. Gave us one.
Took Sallycast-iron. KG stove to Can Torrent: Laura nearly decided to leave Troystudy[?] at Can Torrent. KG: then changed.
Put lock on Anatolia's door.in Can Torrent. KG
Laura dreadfully tired from housework, clearing out cellars etc.
Hernandez died.
Oct 24th Thursday
Much warmer.
Casitashed. KG half-risen: preparations for blasting rocks in the orchard. Karl 'muffish' so strangeness all day. He told me finally that he had had a headache all day & eaten nothing. Went over Schools
introductionwith
L
Laura
. Kept Sallycast-iron stove. KG going all day for Laura: who wrote a long letter to James.
Telegram to Constable about Epilogue spine.
Letter from Kegan Paul about Lars Porsena.
All afternoon gardening — making a long row of St Brigid's anemones in properly prepared earth: hitherto all clay in that front part of the flower-bed. Transcopied Schools. The inlaid mirror came: hung up in Mesquida; also shaving mirror for Karl.
Catalina came: & Anatolia, keeping in the kitchen did her stuff.
Laura writing to Sally Graves about her poems in Troyname given to her study, now at Can Torrent. KG in the evening: me too, at the round table, checking Karl's typescript of her poems.
Oct 25 Friday
Looking over books in search of Schools material.
To Posada where planted some double stocks.
Lars Porsena copies came: started work on them. Wrote to say I would.
Potted out the 'obispo'lit: bishop
. KG in a fabijar. KG.
Pepe put up tomato-rack in cellar.
Spli Blasting rock in orchard.
Laura back at Troy work.
It rained furiously in the night.
W
Oct 26 Saturday
Working at Lars Porsena.
To Palma
Laura decided to go to Palma to get maids. (At 2 o'clock)to Short & various places in El Terreno.
Gelat did most of the work.Bought glass fruit plates, tablecloths, rings for Magdalena & Anitabut might be referring to Ana, Gelat's daughter, here. eds, needles etc; ordered candle-greaseprotectors of. KG coppers, silver button-brooch for Laura's Ibiza jacket. A tortoise stoveWith tortoise-shaped doors for front-loading the wood. It remained in the Canellun dining room after the war until the fireplace was rebuilt in 1957. WG for me.
Letter from Honor: hope about her cottage.
Rosa brought a new brown shirt for me.
To bed early.
No news yet of Calabat
bancalsterraces. KG.
Blue velvet cushion made from skirt of Laura's.
Oct 27 Sunday
Worked at
L.P.
Lars Porsena
to p 17.
No Catalina, but Maria worked curiously well.
Laura a little Troy.
I went over 12 more
pp
pages
A.F.G.
Almost Forgotten Germany
Coffee &
witzen
printen
German biscuits. KG at Can Caballo.
66card game KG & then to Sala & more
[Cutting from Observer, 27 Oct 1935: RG's review of Sulamith Ish-Kishor's Magnificent Hadrian was attached to this page, & removed] See Sept.20th, 1935 entry. eds
Oct 28th Monday.
Lars Porsena — p 50
Casitashed. KG going up still: barrenosholes made for blasting. KG.
My stove came & I put it up.
A few more
pp
pages
A.F.G.
Almost Forgotten Germany
Paid Estanco by cheque. 200pts.
Watered Posada flowers.
Wire from Sabater that paper had come.
Rosemary flowering.
Oct 29 Tuesday
Palma, at 8.30
Engaged Margarita as chambermaid; Catalina as cook.
Bought oval Regency mirror: to be mirrored. CapellaMallorquin. Gilt box with glass front, to put saint in. KG notes. for
San JuanSt. John.. Shorts. Tablecloths. A saphire &
diamond brooch for Laura 140pts. 2 old maps, inlaid
picture frame for Mesquida, glass bottle 12 pts. in all.
Laura & Karl to Sabater who is printing.
News that Juan Vives has brought Juan of the Molí round to an arregloarrangement. KG; Doctorthe Médico. eds throws up case.
New pair of glasses. Karl gives me olive wood ruler.
Laura's pink construction bought.
Laura's brocade stuff bought 50
pes
pesetas
for 1 metre 40 and a piece of peach velvet for cuffs.
Order furry boots for Laura.
Bought ladle, & gave our spare one to
Str.
Strenge
Maria told by Laura she must go. Weeps: is given a month's pay.
Letter from James. Wired him to come.
Oct 30 Wednesday.
Housework all day. (Maria de sa Font Fresc helping). Karl also helped.
To Posada brought back 5 painted chairs in return for orange wood ones from Can Torrent. Took tartan sofa to Can Gelat in exchange for Karl's couch. Bed and two mattresses & moreymulberry-wood. KG table with orange insertions from Posada. Morey table to Francisca's room (New Troy.)probably the room above the Canellun kitchen. It had a fireplace. WG Ordered bookshelves for New Troy. Decided on Posada repairs. TortugaTortoise. KG stove from Can Gelat to Sala. Paid Baker. Laura had her hair cut. Making bedroom in cellar: moved jam etc. Fixed up CapellaGilt box with glass front, for storing saint. KG for San JuanSt. John. KG with background of old maps. Fixed Candia-Serigo map in frame. CasitaShed. KG walls done.
Oct 31 Thursday
Catalina & Margarita came today.new maids. KG
To village for headsheep's head for Salamo, RG's dog. KG/eds and to send off final telegram (3) to James about meeting him Sunday morning at boat.
Juan Ferrer doing plaster work at Mesquida. Maria de sa Font Fresc, Maria Murciana & Maria Luna all working — giving new girls a good start. Maria Luna gave Laura pair of silver, cut steel, pink-topaz earrings.
Present of rabbit from Gelat & the other two JuansVives & Molí. KG, from Lluchmayor.
Put back escudoRoyal arms: over fireplace. KG.
Stove came, & fixed it in New Troya room in Canellun? See Oct.30th entry. eds..
Put composition mill-wheel in earth beside drive, & fabijar. KG with hibiscus in it. Put carnation in other fabi.
Cleaning out house, preparatory to girls coming. Brass, dusting, cleaning garden etc.
Gordon sends Focus.his contribution to? eds
Everyone very, very tired.
Brass nails for chair in entradaentrance hall. WG.
Valldemossa
Valldemossa
Majorca
Sp
Village on the way to Palma. WG
Concordia
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
Salón Concordia. Gelat's café. Variously refered to as the Sala or the Salón. The village youths had shares in it. It was later called the Salón Deportivo. WG
Canellun
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
Laura Riding and Robert Graves' house. Also Canellun (private) road. WG, KG
Can Torrent
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
House next to Canellun also belonging to LR & RG. Built by Norman Cameron. WG
Deyá
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
Town located on the northwest coast of Majorca, on the hillside between the Teix Mountains and the sea: this was RG's home with Laura Riding from 1929 to 1936. He returned there with his family after WW II. Eds.
Ca'n Madó
Majorca
Sp
Old flour mill, on the road to Palma, converted into a hydro-electric plant by Gelat. Laura bought him a generator. Part of the orchard was bought by LR & RG. WG
Posada, La
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
House on the Puig next to Deyá church. Originally part of the Es Molí property. It had been rented by the church for Sunday school. RG and LR bought it in February, 1935, to use as a guest house for their visitors. WG, eds.
Palma
Palma
Majorca
Sp
Capital and largest centre of Majorca.
Majorca/ Mallorca
Majorca
Sp
Largest of the Balearic Islands, located in the Mediterranean Sea off the eastern coast of Spain. R.G. and L.R. lived there, in Deyá, from 1929-1936. eds
Clot, the
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
Refers to the valley where the lower part of the village was located. W.G., eds.
Old Café
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
Run by Margarita the Butcher, and mainly consisted of a table outside the butcher shop. Most frequented by LR & RG until the Sala (Concordia) was built by Gelat. WG
Fábrica
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
Home of Juan (Gelat) and his wife, the Madora. K.G. The ground floor was a nave extended over the equivalent of two more lots. This originally was a factory with an oil press, a flour mill and a soap making machine all run by a steam engine. Gelat replaced steam by fuel-oil and installed an electricity generator. When he put in the turbine at Ca'n Madó he removed the machinery and built a Café in its place (the Sala Concordia). WG
Ca'n Juni
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
garden terraaces belonging to Juan Gelat KG . RG also had access to the fruit there. WG
Ca'n Pabó
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
House in which RG & LR lived while Canellun was being built, after they left Ca Sa Salerosa. WG
Lena's Bar
Palma
Majorca
Sp
LR and RG sometimes ate here while in Palma on shopping or business trips. eds.
Ca l'Abat
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
Beautiful farm with watch-tower on the way to Llucalcari. WG
Ca'n Massiana
Majorca
Sp
?
Hotel Costa d'Or
Llucalcari
Majorca
Sp
In Llucalcari. Went there for drinks and occasionally meals. It was the best hotel, the Fonda being rather basic. The Turismo was closed. WG
Ca sa Salerosa
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
Literally the house of the happy one. House on the Palma side of the Deyá valley which RG & LR rented when they first arrived in Deyá in 1929 and in which they installed the Albion Press. This house was one that was often available to rent. WG During 1935 it was evidently rented by the McCormacks (See March 17, 1935) CP
Ca'n Bi
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
House in the Clot. WG
Mesquida
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
The dining room in Canellun was called the Mesquida after a painting hanging in it. WG
Terreno, El
Palma
Majorca
Sp
A suburb of Palma. WG
Ibiza
Balearic Islands
Sp
One of the three larger islands in the Balearic Archipelago (with Majorca and Menorca). Popular tourist destination. eds
Can Caballo
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
Schwarz' house. (Ca s'Cabalito. The house had a little bronze horse on the balustrade.) Three doors away from Canellun. WG
Can Gelat
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
One of a group of houses behind the Fábrica called the Viña Vieja. WG
Lluchmayor
Lluchmayor
Majorca
Sp
Town on the other side of the island. WG
Riding
Laura
Laura
Riding, Laura
(1901-91) American poet. Laura Riding (née Reichenthal; then Laura Gottschalk).
Junyer
Joän
Joän
Junyer, Joän
Nephew of Sebastian Junyer. Also a good painter. W.G.;
Deaf-mute Catalan painter, ex-pupil of Picasso's, who lived in his uncle's house in Lluch Alcari [Llucalcari]. K.G.; introduced Ward and Dorothy Hutchinson to RG & LR in 1935 eds.
Mayers
Isabel
Isabel
Mayers, Isabel
Laura Riding's sister. Lived in L.A. WG
Richards
Frank
Richards
Richards, Frank
Author of Old Soldiers Never Die and Old Soldier Sahib which R.G. rewrote for him. Was in The Royal Welch Fusiliers, R.G.'s regiment. eds.; Birth name is Francis Phillip Woodruff eds. see Diary September 27, 1936
Goldschmidt
Karl
Karl/Carl
Goldschmidt, Karl
Karl Goldschmidt, later Kenneth Gay: Graphic artist, friend and secretary of Robert Graves and Laura Riding since 1934. R. G. spells both as Carl and Karl.
Morley
Frank
Frank
Morley, Frank
With Faber and Faber. Involved with Old Soldier Sahib. WG
Sanders
Sanders
Sanders
Second hand book seller in Oxford. WG
Magdalena
Magdalena
Maid from Valldemossa hired by RG and LR in September 1935.
Colom
Bernardo
Bernardo
Colom, Bernardo
Ex Cuban, previous owner of 'Son Canals', and former owner of 'Luna land' (on the other side of the road) cf. Married to a Cuban lady. Sons: Marcos (married to Gelat's daughter Magdalena) and Pancho. KG & WG
Marroig Más
Juan
Gelat
Más, Juan Marroig
Juan Marroig Mas, called Gelat: Landowner on Deyá and friend of Robert Graves and Laura Riding (L.R. & R.G.'s factotum. W.G.)
Salas
José
Pepe
Salas, José
Master builder. Built Canellun. Pepe is a diminutive of José. WG
Margarita
Margarita Modista
Margarita Modista
Modista: Dress maker (in Deyá). W.G., eds.
Mas
Juan Marroig
Juan
Mas, Juan Marroig
Usually refers to Gelat's son, sometimes to Gelat himself. WG
Antonio
Antonio the Murcian
Antonio
Antonio and his wife Carmen, parents of Paco, who worked as a mason, and the servant girls Isabel and Josefa, were immigrants from Murcia, a province in Spain. W.G. & eds.
Amador [?]
Amador
Amador
Gelat's right hand man. Drove the bus. WG; also Gelat's chauffeur KG
Miguel
Miguel
Miguel
One of four village carpenters. Others were Miguel Junior, Francisco and Antonio de Ca's Pintat. WG
Isabel
Isabella
Isabel
Live-in maid from Murcia. Her mother (Carmen) then came over with Josefa who also came to work later. WG
Sebastian
Sebastian
Sebastian
Gardener getting on for 80. KG
Rosa
Rosa
Rosa
Dress maker. Also made cushions, seat covers, etc. WG
Matias
Matias [Matthias]
Matias [Matthias]
A mason, one of Salas' men, working in the Posada. WG
Marroig Más
Madora
Madora
Marroig Más, Madora
Gelat's wife. W.G. R.G. often spells her first name "Medora," and precedes it with "the." eds.
Reeves
James
James
Reeves, James
Schoolmaster, writer and Poet. Friend of Jacob Bronowski. W.G./ K.G.; m. to Mary Phillips; daughter Stella born June 14, 1938 eds.
Sabater
Esperanza [?]
Sabater
Sabater
Printer in Palma who did work for R.G. & L.R. eds.
Marroig
Anita
Anita
Ana, Anita
Marroig. Gelat's daughter, married to Juan Vives the Doctor's brother. Live in Rennes, France. WG
Vives
Juan
Juan
Vives, Juan
The Doctor's brother. Married to Gelat's daughter. Lived in Rennes, France. WG
Vives
Juanita
Juanita
Vives, Juanita
Juan and Anita Ana's daughter WG
Vives
Franciscito
Franciscito
Vives, Franciscito
Gelat's grandson W.G. Son of Anita, Gelat's daughter in Rennes. KG
Mateu
Margarita
Margarita Mateu
Mateu, Margarita
Antique dealer, mostly jewellery, in Palma. WG
Schwarz
Georg
Swartz
Schwarz, Georg
German Jew. Deyá neighbour. Antique dealer. Lived with Frau Emmy Strenge, his house keeper, in Can Caballo some hundred yards from Canellun. RG and LR translated his "Almost Forgotten Germany." WG
Strenge
Emmi
Strenge
Strenge, Frau Emmi
Schwarz's house keeper and ? mistress. WG
Hitler
Adolf
Hitler
Hitler, Adolf
(1889-1945)
Martina
Catalina
Catalina
Catalina
Domestic help. Called in for white-washing, etc. WG
Margarita
Margarita
Margarita (Café proprietor)
Proprietor of Café. Also Butcher. WG
Ferrer
Magdalena
Magdalena Ferrer
Ferrer, Magdalena
The Butcher. W.G. Married to Juan Ferrer (a mason who did plaster jobs for R.G.)? eds.
Chilver née Graves
Sally
Sally
Graves, Sally
R.G.'s niece. Daughter of his half-brother Philip. KG
Castañer
Castañer
? Owner of a large house in the Clot. Worked in Palma? WG
Vives
Antonio
Antonio
Vives, Antonio Dr.
The village doctor (médico). At odds with Gelat. WG
Millionario
Millionario (rich resident of Deyá)
Rich American living in Ca l'Andresa. W.G.; Basque resident of Deyá (with American wife). K.G.
Marroig Más
Magdalena
Magdalena Marroig
Marroig Más, Magdalena
Gelat's daughter. Later married Marcos Colom. WG
Hillgarth
Hillgarth
Hillgarth
Consul? Ambasador? Foreign Office. W.G.; Palma Consul KG
Vives
Antonio
Médico
Vives, Antonio Dr.
The village doctor (Deyá). At odds with Gelat (water rights controversy). His brother, Juan Vives, was Gelat's son-in-law. WG
Catalina
Catalina
Catalina
Cook from Palma employed by RG and LR; worked with Margarita, the chambermaid. W.G., eds.
Cameron
Norman
Norman Cameron
Cameron, Norman
Poet. Built Can Torrent in 1932-1933. W.G.; m. to Elfriede, then to Catherine Vandervelde; friend and contributor to LR and RG's work eds.
Roberts
Michael
Michael Roberts
Roberts, Michael
Editor; real name William Edward KG; L.R. & R.G. submitted poems for an anthology he was preparing, published by ? Faber & Faber. WG
Graves
Amy
A.G. (A.E.S.G)
Graves, Amy
Amy Graves, RG's Mother. WG
Aquel
Sebastian
Sebastian
Aquel, Sebastian
"That" Sebastian? (nickname) K.G. A villager who helped out with renovations, landscaping etc. May have had some seniority among the labourers there. W.G., eds.
Nicholson
Jenny
Jenny
Nicholson, Jenny
Jenny Nicholson: oldest daughter of Robert by Nancy Nicholson.
Graves
Samuel
Sam
Graves, Samuel
R.G.'s youngest child by Nancy Nicholson. C.P.& WG
Antonio, Carmen, Paco, Isabel, Josefa
Murcians
Murcians
There were at least two families of immigrants from Murcia in the village. Antonio and Carmen, parents of Paco who worked as a mason, and the servant girls Isabel and Josefa. Maria Murciana was from a different family. WG
Krassnigg
Reinhold
Krasnik
Krassnigg
Austrian Deyá resident. W.G. Austrian painter: his wife's name was Pauline. K.G.
Colom
Pancho
Pancho
Colom, Pancho
Don Bernardo's son. A black sheep. WG
Casas
Casas
Casas
Antique dealer in Palma. WG
Short
Short
Short
Shipping agent and operator of a lending library in Palma. K.G.
Belmonte
Young Belmonte
Belmonte
"young Belmonte," related to Juan Belmonte the bullfighter, either son: Juanito, or younger brother: Manuel. eds.
Mayol
Juan
Juan of Molí
Mayol, Juan
Owner of the Es Molí farmhouse. Involved in a local water rights controversy with the Señor of Sa Pedrissa, the Médico and others. R.G. records the on-going confict in his diary over a span of several months in 1935. KG & eds.
Graves
David
David
Graves, David
R.G.'s second child [by Nancy Nicholson]. W.G. In RAF; killed in the war. The only one of Graves' children who might have become a poet had he lived. K.G., eds.
Simpson
A.A.
A. A. Simpson
Simpson, A.A.
? WG
Lawrence
Arnie
Arnie
Lawrence, A.W. (Arnie)
T.E. Lawrence's brother and executor. WG
Lawrence
T.E.
T.E.
Lawrence, T. E.
'Lawrence of Arabia.' Met Robert in Oxford in the early twenties. Made Robert his biographer and had him write "Lawrence and the Arabs." WG
Maria Luna
Luna, Maria
Also known as Anatolia. Served briefly as RG and LR's maid & cook in October 1935, but didn't work out (was dismissed). Diary, October 21- 29, 1935.
Nicholson
Nancy
Nancy
Nicholson, Nancy
(1899-1977) First wife of Robert Graves; married 1918, separated 1927, divorced 1949. eds.
Yeats
W. B.
Yeats
Yeats, William Butler
(1865-1939) Major Irish poet. eds. Was on the island of Majorca December 1935. WG
N.R.
Reichenthal, Nathan
Laura Riding's father. KG
Wyatt
Honor
Honor
Wyatt, Honor
Journalist. Arrived in Deyá fortuitously. Married to Gordon Glover...Son Julian. W.G. First acquainted with R.G. and L.R. early in 1934; returned to visit in 1935; continued friendship in England. eds (RPG 211).
Korda
Alexander
Korda
Korda, Alexander
Director of the film version of I Claudius.
Hernandez
Hernandez
Hernandez, Mrs.
? Mrs. Hernandez was the American owner of Ca'n Siqui. K.G.
Mas
Anita
Anita
Mas, Anita
Gelat's daughter-in-law, married to Juan Mas. WG
Margarita
Margarita
Margarita (chambermaid)
Chambermaid from Palma. Worked with Catalina the Cook. WG
De sa Font Fresca
Maria
Maria de sa Font Fresca
De sa Font Fresca, Maria
Gelat's mistress (or one of them) C.P. & W.G. Sebastian the gardener's daughter (spells "Fresca" without the final "a"?) K.G.
Francisca
Francisca
Francisca
The "Francisca" of "Laura and Francisca." eds. A young resident of Deyá; her mother Francisca Messiana helped out at Canellun. W.G. Also called Francisquita (but so were other Franciscas in the village). Later m. to Miguel Ripoll (see Friedmann 179) eds.
Ferrer
Juan
Juan Ferrer
Ferrer, Juan
married to Magdalena Ferrer, the butcher; does masonry work at the Posada eds.
Murciana
Maria
Maria
Murciana, Maria
Member of a Murcian immigrant family [check]. WG
Glover
Gordon
Gordon
Glover, Gordon
Married to Honor Wyatt. WG
Graves
Robert
Graves, Robert
Author of the diary.
Graves
Beryl A.
Graves, Beryl A.
Second wife of Robert Graves. Transcribed the diary entries and register of letters written (hereafter, logs) from
a photocopy of the manuscript, and these 53 monthly MS Dos, ASCII files, dated 01/01/83 were sent to Chris Petter by
The Robert Graves Trust on floppy disc in 1996.
Goldschmidt
Karl
Goldschmidt, Karl
Karl Goldschmidt, d.1995, who later changed his name to Kenneth Gay,
was Robert Graves' and Laura Riding's personal secretary during the period when the diary was written. He later annotated
another printout of the diary produced from the B.A. Graves transcript, which is at the Graves Trust Archives in St. John's Oxford.
Notes by Karl Goldschmidt are denoted as KG.
Graves
William
Graves, William
Son of Robert and Beryl Graves. Helped to identify names, places and titles in Deya (1935-1936)
and with translations and other references in three ways. He left an annotated printout of the first six months of the diary in the Graves Trust
Room at St. John's College, Oxford. He also sent Chris Petter an Excel file with a list identifying names and places, principally
in the Majorcan sections of the diary, and a glossary of Spanish terms. Finally he has sent the editors answers in response to reference questions.
Notes by William Graves are identified with the initials WG.
Petter
Chris G.
Petter, Chris G.
Project manager of text encoding and annotation.
Fabrica
Gelat's household including: his wife, the Madora, his daughter Magdalena, son Juan and daughter-in-law Anita. Other relations often present were Francisquito, his grandson, and Francesquita, Anita's little sister R.G., eds.
Constable & Co., Ltd.
Constable
Constable
Constable Publishers. Arranged with them to print and distribute Seizin Press Epilogue and books. WG
Arthur Barker Ltd.
Barker
Arthur
A.B.
Barker, Arthur
The English publisher of I, Claudius and Claudius the God. WG
Beck
Beck
Beck
Firm that printed Epilogue and other Seizin Press books distributed by Constable. WG
Penguin Books
Penguin
Penguin Books
publisher eds.
Faber & Faber
Faber
Publishers of Old Soldier Sahib and Old Soldiers Never Die. WG
Harrison Smith and Robert Haas
Harrison Smith
R.G.'s American publisher for I, Claudius and Claudius the God. eds.
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd.
Kegan Paul
Publisher of R.G.'s Lars Porsena (1927) W.G. Also the 2nd revised edition, 1936. eds.
Estanco
Estanco
Local Tobacconist, a general shop KG
Editors
Editors of the Graves Diary Project.
Almost Forgotten Germany [Almost Forgotten Times]
Schwarz, Georg
Trans. Graves, Robert/ Riding, Laura
Deyá & London
Seizin & Constable
A45
1936
Old Soldier Sahib
Richards, Frank
Graves, Robert
London, New York
Faber & Faber; Harrison Smith & Robert Haas
A44
1936
Times [newspaper]
London
Times Newspapers
Decline of Prophecy [poem]
Collected Poems
Riding, Laura
London, Toronto, Melbourne & Sydney
Cassell and Company Limited
A35 [Wexler]
1938
Trojan Ending, A [novel]
Riding, Laura
Deyá & London
Seizin & Constable
1937
Daily Chronicle/ Dia
Palma, Majorca
1935-1936
Moments in Never [poem; later Proofs of Royalty; published as Fragment of a Lost Poem]
Robert Graves: Complete Poems Vol. II
Graves, Robert
Beryl Graves and Dunstan Ward
Manchester
Carcanet Press
pp. 86, 313 (note).
1995-1999
What Then? [poem: became Historical Particulars. June 25, 1935 R.G.]
Graves, Robert
Gulls and Men [poem: formerly "Gulls and Such"; see Complete Poems, Vol. II, p. 337, and note on "Fragment of a Lost Poem", p.313. DW]
Collected Poems (1914-1947)
Graves, Robert
London,Toronto, Melbourne & Sydney
Cassell
A60
1948
Epilogue I: A Critical Summary
Riding. Laura/ Graves, Robert
Deyá & London
Seizin & Constable
B22
1935
Convalescent Conversations [fiction]
Madeleine Vara [Laura Riding]
Deyá & London
Seizin & Constable
1936
Left Review, The
Writers' International
London
F. Cass
1934-1938
Receipt for Moneys [poem: also called Address to Customers. Was "scrapped" see diary Apr. 3, 1936]
Graves, Robert
Claudius Film Version [The Fool of Rome] [a condensed novel based on I, Claudius]
Graves, Robert
Schools [an international survey of education]
Graves, Robert; Riding, Laura
Riding, Laura
Pure Death [poem]
Collected Poems [1938]
Graves, Robert
London
Cassell
A48
1938
Land of Whipperginny
Collected Poems [1938]
Graves, Robert
London
Cassell
A48
1938
Dialecticians
Poems (1914-1926)
Graves, Robert
London
Heinemann
A23
1927
Landscape
Poems (1926-1930)
Graves, Robert
London
Heinemann
A36
1931
Fool of Rome, The [Claudius Film Version]
Graves, Robert
I, Claudius [novel]
Graves, Robert
London
Arthur Barker
A42
1934
Lars Porsena or The Future of Swearing and Improper Language [2nd rev. edition]
Graves, Robert
London
Kegan Paul
A21c
1936
Observer, the
London
1791-
Focus I, II, III, IV [newsletter]
Riding, Laura
Deyá
Seizin
1935