March 1 Monday
Snow on mountains.
Letter from Short, via
British warship & London, saying
that Gelat was locked up a week before
i.e.
id est
Feb
February
12 & that young Juan said that it was the Dr.'s doing, but that he had been assured that 'nothing
serious' would come of it.
(Daily Telegraph says that the Insurgent offensive at Madrid has failed again, the troops being back where they
were a fortnight ago.)
Bad headache all day, finally cured by a walk to Lugano with Karl &
Nickel. Nickel & Schw. had
come to coffee. Schw did not take the Gelat news at all personally.
Epilogue & Year of Damage.
Miss Wright not coming; says that the Claudius script is 'not ready' according to Korda, though shooting started a fortnight ago!
Answer to Int.Letter from Eddie Marsh.
March 2 Tuesday.
Telegram from Sherek, saying that Jenny has pleurisy in the Duchess Home
& wants to come to Lugano in a
fortnight to recuperate.
Replied to N.N. & to Jenny (& Sherek) saying how difficult & inappropriate,
suggesting a cruise instead.
Epilogue, Year of Damage.
Supper in Fermata Tram, an Italianish inn: soup, chops, very vinegry salad, Barbera wine.
Open fireplace and family life.
Changed from
Avantaguardia
to
Literi Stampi
Italian newspapers? eds..
March 3 Wednesday
Went over Schools with Laura.
Letter from Cunningham that he is sending
15,000 lire and enclosing Claudius scenario: different from all previous versions, drawing more on I Claudius, but anach spoiling the assassination &
accession series. Wrote to thank.
To Lugano by steamer. Cold hills.
Epilogue.
March 4 Thursday
Read the Claudius script which is more & more dreary as it goes on.
Walked to Gentillino & beyond.
Wrote to David for his birthday. Letter from
Juan Junyer at Barcelona. Laura wrote
letters to Rennes, Short & Deyá. Epilogue.
Claudius.
Schools.
Emmi back from Germany. Says that the
military clique Fritsch, Blomberg & Raeder
are the real rulers in Germany already and that Prince August Willhelm is expected as the new President Kaiser.
March 5 Friday.
It rained most of the day.
Claudius. Schools.
Walked to Lugano & bought a Swiss
pewter platter for 4
fr.
francs
and some anemones.
Barbera with Str, Schw & Nickel at the
Fermata Tram.
March 6 Saturday.
Last proofs of Epilogue, galleys. Checking page-proofs of Epilogue.
Claudius (another 15,000 words to do only).
Letter to Denham, about scenario
absurdities, and about money.
Letter from N.N., reassuring about Jenny; & from Jenny. Wrote to both, sent N.N. £135.
Laura wrote letters all day.
Reading. or
reading: Hornung
's Dead Men tell No Tales
Dead Men Tell No Tales by E.W. Hornung. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1899.
eds. and Mrs Thackeray Ritchie's Memoirs
Chapters From Some Memoirs by Anne Thackeray Ritchie. London, New York: Macmillan &
Co., 1894. eds. and Nat Gould's
Settling Day
Settling Day by Nat Gould. London:
R.A. Everett, 1901. eds. part of a hoard of Tauchnitzpaperbacks KG from Ida.
March 7 Sunday
Wrote Claudius all day.
Lunch at Ziebert. No one there. Coffee at
Str & Schw. Schw tells his Isidore
stories for the umpteenth time.
Walk over the hill to Sorengo. All Lugano coming home to supper, with bunches
of wind-flowers in hand.
After supper walk with Karl & Laura to Lugano. Beer at Gembiani's. On the way home a drunk man shouting:
Mussolini."
Brutto uomo senza cuore! Ecco! La difficulta della ciuta...Noi altri....
Mussolini! Horrid man without a heart! The trouble of our
civilization...We heretofore...
eds.
March 8 Monday
Claudius. Wrote to Cunningham.
Epilogue: sent off last galleys & some page proofs.
Copy of Troy came.
To Lugano in afternoon. Rain, (did Epilogue proofs in Olympia).
Laura finished her letters. Several answers
to the I.L.
have now come in, several
one or two constructive.
Year of Damage.
Letter from Rennes asking whether we are
concealing anything.
March 9 Tuesday
To British Consul to 'notarize' my
U.S.
United States
income claim: sent off.
Claudius & Year of Damage all day.
It rained.
Blackberry scarf from Julie, with a long
account of what a stringy, dreary thing it was, & twice dropped in
the mud.
Lights fused at 11 pm
Rebels 'break through' on Guadalajara front.
Two Italian mechanised divisions.
March 10 Wednesday
To Lugano – for a telegram which
is only one letter of sympathy about Gelat from Maisie &
Honor.
Year of Damage, Claudius, Epilogue page proofs.
Year of Dam
Five shirts back from the modistatailor eds. with reconstituted collars.
March 11 Thursday.
Claudius F.V. and wrote letters and a cold
misty day and bought a pewter cigarette-box for 5
fr.
francs
with a stamped late-Renaissance design.
Laura writing letters all day.
At night considered sorting out poems for a collected edition.
March 12 Friday
Have had no letters for four days.
Claudius – last chapter but 2 or 3.
Heavy snow, changed to rain.
Chosen & arranged poems for new collected volume.
Laura finishing last of about 60 letters.
Decided to postpone Year of Damage & Schools
till
until
autumn.
Letter from Honor introducing friendship
with George which made us rather blank.
March 13 Saturday.
Work on poems
Claudius, which is getting too long for its contract.
News of Mary Hale's death.
Laura wrote her first poem for months
– to Juan Marroig in Prison.
Ordered feather pillow.
Sent stamps to Sam.
Laura had a bad night with cramps.
March 14 Sunday
Finished
Poem-sorting (Laura
sorting her collected poems, beginning with Voltaire)
Cut down Claudius by 17
pp
pages
& schemed out last two
chapters for Karl.
Rain all day. Cards & Lunch & cards at
Ziebert. Coffee at Schw & Str.
Karl & I, when it cleared, went for
a walk – Sorenzo
Gentillino. Small white useless crocuses
in the woods.
Karl enjoying 'Year of Damage.'
Nickel to supper.
March 15 Monday
News of a
Gov
t
Government
counter-attack against the Italians at Guadarrama. Italians reported in rout.
More sorting of poems; rewriting some.
More Claudius.
The MacCormacks turned up on the way back to
England from Dubrovnik.
To tea at Buri's with them, to supper at
Zieberts.
* Finished Claudius except for cross-copying.
March 16 Tuesday
Jenny's lungs reported better.
The McCormacks took us in car for a day's
visit to Italy – round Lugano,
past Lake Piano to Lake Como. Lunch at Cadenabbia decoyed by a nasty little boy into an expensive
restaurant where we waited an hour, then by rowing boat across to Bellagio (tourist &
embroidring
embroidering
centre) when I bought a silver peasant
hair-pin for 12 lira – as a paper knife. We
passed Villas Carlotta & D'Este but did not go in, had coffees
& beers in Como, & back by
Chiasso. Italy lovely, but the Duce's apothegms stencilled or engraved
everywhere. Much trouble at customs. Laura
had a headache.
(Today in Libya M proclaimed himself
Protector of Islam – against English & French oppression).
March 17 Wednesday
Voyage round the lake on a dull day with McCormacks, as far as Porto-Ceresio (Italian) The little places we stopped at
were as dull as the day too.
Tea at Olympia, where Schw. & the McCormacks met.
Splitting headache all day.
Gave the McCormacks things to take to
England to our friends.
March 18 Thursday.
Goodbye to the Mc Cormacks.
* Publication day of Trojan Ending.
Poem sorting.
Mist. Ida did not come so I did housework.
Laura went to bed early at 4. and nothing much happened for the rest of the day.
News that Merle Oberon has been injured in a
car-smash & the I, Claudius film is likely to be scrapped.
News of definite breach of non-intervention (acknowledged by British
Govt
Government
) by Italians.
March 19 Friday
St Joseph's day: so a fiesta, shops shut.
Cross-copying Claudius.
Laura going over her poems.
Wet day. Walked to Lugano by upper way in rain.
Four drafts of a poem – The Fallen Tower.
Have lately read (re-read) or reading The Hill, Heart of a Child
The Heart of a Child by Frank Danby a.k.a. Julia Frankau. New York: The
Macmillan Company, 1908. eds. by Frank Danby, Leonard
Merrick stories, Choice of Evils
A Choice of Evils, A Novel by Mrs. Alexander a.k.a. Annie Hector. London: White, 1894. eds. by
Mrs Alexander.
Recapture of Brihuega from Italians.
March 20 Saturday
Laura wrote a poem The Readers.
Cunningham sent about £170 in
Swiss francs: acknowledged & receipted &
put in Cook's.
One more draft of The Fallen Tower of Siloam, & one more of a rhyme 'Jack'? eds. written a
few days ago.
Cross-copying Claudius.
It rained all day but Karl & I went
to Lugano to buy food.
66card game eds. again.
First cuttingspress-cuttings KG of American Antigua – favourable.
Random House will take 1000 sheets of
Laura's poems.
Talk of a visit to America to write a book if Spain does not clear up.
March 21 Sunday
Fine day again. Ziepert as usual
– Ida didn't come.
Finished and wrapped up Claudius to send off tomorrow.
Emmi a prisoner because Pippa
Strenge's terrier eds. is on heat & Schw.
won't do anything about it himself.
We walked to Lugano past 'Mrs Simpson's statue'.
Laura writing a poem about primroses.
Enclosure –
Laughton as Claudius
clipping about I, Claudius film
March 22 Monday
Still raining continuously.
Letter from Short.
Mallorca 'terribly sad'.
Gelat still in prison no charge yet. Juan
wrote: has hopes of his release (March 13th)
Juan wrote himself: also adde had hope
and also for the end of this war in the sense that
we would desire it.
Wrote to Honor with a diagram plotting the CAD? eds.
centre of George Ellidge from
pts
points
on the circumference.
* Sent off Claudius.
Blue china beads for Laura, 3
fr
francs
.
No Trojan reviews yet.
Wrote note to my poems, translated George
Sand's foreword to
La Petite Fadette
La Petite Fadette by George Sand. Paris:
J. Hetzel et Cie : V. Lecou, 1852. eds. for Laura.
Italians reported in panic-stricken flight: which has much impressed Lugano people – to laughter
& talk of Caporettoreference to the Battle of Caporetto
1917 eds.. English newspapers headlining this.
66card game eds. again: 2 tailorsbirdies KG.
March 23 Tuesday.
Sunny day. Going over poems still, rewriting.
A walk to Gentillino. Windflowers,
primroses, white violets, & the
white crocus, first buttercup I
have seen for years. I had a beer in a small inn up there with copper pans
– pewter measures.
On the way wrote Victory on a piece of paper I found in a hedge: two more drafts.
To Lugano – 18
fr
francs
for invisible mending of my jacket.
Laura bought me a mug 1.80
francs for my pencils; 12 table mats 80
centimes each.
Supper at Gambrinus – hors
d'ouvres, goulash. On the way back mentally rearranged Canellun.
To Emmi's at 8.30. They were drinking wine
& quarrelling over a red leather purse they were making.
Read Leonard Merrick's Conrad in search of his Youth
Conrad in Search of His Youth by Leonard Merrick. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1900. eds..
March 24th Wednesday
Raining all day.
Went over 190
pp
pages
of Year of Damage with Laura.
Greville Diaries and George Sand's Gallerie des
Femmes arrived.
Cut my hand at breakfast.
To Lugano to buy a lobster supper, in shells.
Went over points in Laura & Francisca & Voltaire with Laura.
Papers reflect crisis in Spain & moral shock everywhere at the
Italian defeat.
Snow on hills, hoar-frost at night, lake rising.
March 25 Maundy Thursday
Fine day.
Good Int. Letter answer from Strong.
Tom sent a cutting from New York Times, with account of shootings in Majorca – including Ques and Leal, the Inspector of Schools for shutting up nun's schools.
Letter from Anita: Juan of the Moli had gone
back because Fascist spies might have reported him for dealing in
Gov
t
Government
oranges & confiscated his house etc.
Anxious times, buying too many newspapers – also reading Greville Diary. Finished 1/2
Alan's book with Laura.
Helped Laura with letter to Time about Butler
Riding on Butler
eds..
Boil much the same as before.
March 26 Good Friday
Have now gone over 3/4 of Year of Damage.
Lugano filling up with German &
Germanswiss visitors.
(Delbos' warning to Italy about Spain)
Wrote 7 or 8 letters including children, Strong, Bridget, Barker
,
.
A cutting shows that my critical remarks about the
film have not been paid attention to.
Double tailor at 66card game eds., without an ace. Chee Cream
garlick
garlic
cheese.
March 27 Saturday.
A review of Trojan Ending in Times: favourable but sniffy.
Lugano stiff with visitors now, not at all attractive shapes.
Laura going over her early poems.
Tea Raspberry ices at Huglienin's by the lake side.
Writing a note on morality games to Ward's Epilogue contribution.
Ida's boy Pierre came & washed up.
Easter Sunday, March 28
Lunch at Ziepert.
Writing the note on Games.see March 27th entry. eds.
In the evening finished going over Alan's
book
Year of Damage eds. with Laura.
Note from Anita at Rennes: she suspects Gelat
is in prison & wants to send 5000
fr
francs
by us.
Laura wrote to Times Lit Supp about Kierkegard.
Easter Monday March 29th
Lunch at Karl's place
'De la Santa' with Karl & Nickel and then we went for a walk to Gentillino. Sun, banks of primroses.
Worked at the note on Games.see March 27th entry. eds.
Laura answered the Christina Stead questionaire.
We went to Lugano to see the illuminations
promised us by Karl, but only saw a lost
white Borzoi.
Easter Tuesday March 30
Work on Games: finished.for Epilogue III: see March 27th entry. eds.
Cleaned up the alabaster toilet set that Laura bought from Ida for 10
fr
franc
.
Laura wrote to Christina Stead at length & Storm Jameson.
Letter from Jenny at Cannes, happy again.
In Lugano bought a Hottentot iron-bead
necklace with red trade-beads. Cleaned up beads, restrung with more trade
beads 3
fr.
francs
50 in all. Necklace broke/in Lugano (on the way to Gambrinus for a 10
fr
franc
hors
d'oeuvres dish) but enough were recovered from the street (and later from
Laura's underclothes) to make a shorter one.
Soller port bombarded by
Govt
Government
ships.
victory at Pozolla
Wednesday March 31
A poem, The Wounded Man, in one draft.
Saw Str. who has not been out of her flat
except for a few minutes every evening because of the dog being on heat for a
fortnight. Schw & Nickel will not relieve her, though they originally bought the bitch against her wish. Schw. apparently jumping for joy because he
has read in the
National Zeitung
Swiss? national newspaper eds. that Franco is going to lose.
Laura hasn't slept well for a long time
& gets up at 11 or later. She is working over Ward's thing about Games & other pleasures.for Epilogue. eds.
Wrote to Jenny.
London
England
Madrid
Madrid
New Castile
Spain
Capital city of Spain eds.
Lugano
Lugano
Switzerland
near the Italian border, where RG and LR spent part of 1937 eds.
Fermata Tram
Lugano
Switzerland
restaurant in an "Italianish Inn" RG
Gentillino
Lugano
Switzerland
Barcelona
Catalunya
Spain
Located on the Mediterranean coast. eds.
Rennes
Rennes
France
where Gelat's daughter, Anita, and son-in-law, Juan Vives live; visited by RG and LR et al in 1938 eds.
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.
Denham
England
usually associated with Denham Studios and Alexander Korda eds.
Hotel Belle Rive-Ziebert
Lugano
Switzerland
Hotel in Lugano; Graves often calls "Ziebert" eds.
Sorengo
Lugano
Switzerland
Gambrinus
Lugano
Lugano
Switzerland
restaurant eds.
Olympia
Lugano
Lugano
Switzerland
café in centre of Lugano KG
Guadalajara
Guadalajara
New Castile
Spain
Guadarrama
Sierra de Guadarrama (mountain range)
Castilla y Leon (Old Castile)
Spain
a mountain range rising from the "Meseta" (central plateau), north of Madrid.
Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik
Croatia
Buri's
Lugano
Switzerland
café or restaurant eds.
Lake Piano
Lake Piano
Italy
Lake Como
Como
Italy
Cadenabbia
Cadenabbia
Italy
Bellagio
Bellagio
Italy
Villa Carlotta
Lake Como
Italy
museum and botanical garden on Lake Como eds.
Villa D'Esta
Lake Como
Italy
Mansion-turned-hotel on Lake Como eds.
Como
Como
Italy
Chiasso
Chiasso
Switzerland
Porto Ceresio
Porto Ceresio
Italy
Brihuega
Brihuega
New Castile
Spain
town near Guadalajara eds.
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
Paris
France
Caporetto
Caporetto
Venezia Giulia
Italy
Canellun
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
Laura Riding and Robert Graves' house. Also Canellun (private) road. WG, KG
Molí, Es
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
Large estate which Gelat divided up and sold for the owner. The farm-house was bought by Juan Mayol. RG & LR bought the Posada, Es Piñets and part of Ca'n Madó. WG
Huguenin's
Lugano
Switzerland
Karl's Place
Lugano
Switzerland
a restaurant KG
Cannes
Cannes
France
Soller
Soller
Majorca
Sp
Town of some 10,000 inhabitants ten kilometers from Deyá. WG
Short
Short
Short
Shipping agent and operator of a lending library in Palma. K.G.
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.)
Mas
Juan Marroig
Juan
Mas, Juan Marroig
Usually refers to Gelat's son, sometimes to Gelat himself. WG
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
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.
Schwarz
Nickel
Nickel
Schwarz, Nickel
Son of Georg Schwarz.
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
Wright
Elizabeth
Miss Wright
Wright, Miss
Alexander Korda's secretary eds.
Korda
Alexander
Korda
Korda, Alexander
Director of the film version of I Claudius.
Marsh
Edward
Edward Marsh
Marsh, Edward
Influential civil servant and friend of R.G.'s and many others from WW I, also Georgian poets and artists. W.G. & C.P.
Sherrick
Henry
Sherrick
Sherrick
R.G.'s daughter Jenny's manager (RPG 263); same as Shellick? associated with Dorchester Hotel eds.
Nicholson
Jenny
Jenny
Nicholson, Jenny
Jenny Nicholson: oldest daughter of Robert by Nancy Nicholson.
Nicholson
Nancy
Nancy
Nicholson, Nancy
(1899-1977) First wife of Robert Graves; married 1918, separated 1927, divorced 1949. eds.
Riding
Laura
Laura
Riding, Laura
(1901-91) American poet. Laura Riding (née Reichenthal; then Laura Gottschalk).
Cunningham
Cunningham
Cunningham
associated with Korda and the I, Claudius film script eds. see Diary March, 1937
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.
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.
Strenge
Emmi
Strenge
Strenge, Frau Emmi
Schwarz's house keeper and ? mistress. WG
von Fritsch
Baron Werner
Fritsch
von Fritsch, Col-General Baron Werner
(1880-1939), Commander-in-Chief of the German Army 1935-38 eds.
von Blomberg
Werner
Blomberg
von Blomberg, General Werner
(1856-1921), General in the German Army eds.
Raeder
Erich
Raeder
Raeder, Grand Admiral Erich
(1876-1960), Grand Admiral in German Army eds.
Wilhelm
August
Prince August Wilhelm
Wilhelm, Prince August
(1887-1949), Prince of Prussia, son of Wilhelm II, King of Prussia, German Emperor (1859-1941) eds.
Hornung
Ernest William
Hornung
Hornung, E.W.
British author (1866-1921) eds.
Thackery Ritchie
Anne
Mrs Thackeray Ritchie
Thackeray Ritchie, Mrs Anne
British author (1837-1919), eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray eds.
Gould
Nat
Nat Gould
Gould, Nat
British writer (1857-1919) eds.
Ida
Ida
maid at Villa Guidi eds.
Mussolini
Benito
Mussolini
Mussolini, Benito
(1883-1945) Fascist dictator ( "IL DUCE") of Italy from 1922-1943. eds.
Matthews
Julie
Julie
Matthews, Julie
Tom Matthews' wife. WG
Sommerville
Maisie
Maisie
Sommerville, Maisie
Head of BBC Education broadcasting department. Friend of R.G. and L.R. Arranged accomodation for them when they returned to London as exiles. W.G., eds.
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).
Ellidge
George
George
Ellidge, George
friend, married to Mary Burtonwood eds.; friend of Honor Wyatt's KG
Hale
Mary
Mary
Hale, Mary
Welsh maid at Nottingham Place, sister Violet eds.; later, maid for RG and LR at Dorset St. "Laura pinched [her] from Kitty West" eds. KG
Graves
Samuel
Sam
Graves, Samuel
R.G.'s youngest child by Nancy Nicholson. C.P.& WG
McCormack
Walter; Violet; Betty; Jennifer
McCormacks
McCormack, Walter & Violet
Tenants of Ca'n Torrent. Had two daughters: Jennifer, a dancer, & Betty. Continued their friendship with Robert and Laura in England. eds.
Oberon
Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson
Merle Oberon
Oberon, Merle
actress (1911-1979), married to Alexander Korda eds.
Frankau [née Davis]
Julia
Frank Danby
Danby, Frank [pseud.]
Irish novelist (1859-1916), and friend of William Nicholson eds.
Merrick
Leonard
Leonard Merrick
Merrick, Leonard
British author (1864-1939) eds.
Hector
Annie
Mrs. Alexander
Alexander, Mrs. [pseud.]
American author (1825-1902) eds.
Laughton
Charles
Laughton
Laughton, Charles
Actor. Was to play 'Claudius' in the film version of R.G.'s book, "I, Claudius".
Dudevant, née Dupin
Amandine Lucile Aurore
George Sand
Sand, George [pseud.]
French author (1804-1876) eds.
Strong
Leonard Alfred George
Strong
Strong, L.A.G.
British author (1896-1958) eds.
Matthews
Thomas S.
Tom
Matthews, T.S.(Tom)
American journalist. Took sabbatical from TIME and arrived in Deyá in 1930. Involved from then on with L.R. and R.G. WG
Quesada
Américo
Ques.
Castro y Quesada, Américo
(1885-1972); Spanish philologist and cultural historian; Spanish ambassador to Berlin 1931-36 eds.
Leal
Leal
Inspector of Schools in Mallorca, shot by Insurgents in 1937 eds.
Marroig
Anita
Anita
Ana, Anita
Marroig. Gelat's daughter, married to Juan Vives the Doctor's brother. Live in Rennes, France. WG
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.
Hodge
Alan
Alan
Hodge, Alan
Oxford history graduate. Became close friends with LR & RG. First husband of Beryl Graves. CP & WG
Butler
Samuel
Butler
Butler, Samuel
British writer and artist (1835-1902) eds.
Delbos
Yvon
Delbos
Delbos, Yvon
(1885-1956) French politician eds.
Bridget
Bridget
London milliner, with Aage Tharup's KG
Barker
Arthur
A.B.
Arthurby
Barker, Arthur
Owner and director of Arthur Barker Ltd., the English publisher of I, Claudius and Claudius the God. Arthurby was L.R.'s nickname for him.
Hutchinson
Ward
Ward
Hutchinson, Ward
Photographer. Contibuted to"Epilogue." W.G. R.G. often refers to "the Hutchinsons" (Ward & Dorothy) as a couple especially when they were staying on the island. eds.
Pierre
Pierre
son of Ida, RG's maid in Lugano eds. see Diary, 27 March, 1937
Kierkegaard
Søren
Kierkegaard
Kierkegaard, Søren
philosopher and writer (1813-1855)
Stead
Christina Ellen
Christina Stead
Stead, Christina
Australian author (1902-1983) eds.
Storm Jameson
Margaret Ethel
Storm Jameson
Jameson, Storm
British author (1891-1986) eds.
Franco
Franco, General
Spanish General; led the Nationalist forces against the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War; Spanish Head of State from 1939-1969.
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.
Cook's of Cranleigh Ltd.
Cook's
Cook's
moving company eds.
Random House
Random House
American publishers (New York) eds.
Editors
Editors of the Graves Diary Project.
Daily Telegraph
London
1856-1936
Epilogue III
Riding, Laura/ Graves, Robert
Deyá & London
Seizin & Constable
1937
Year of Damage [novel]
Hodge, Alan
1936-12
Claudius [the film: based on I, Claudius, directed by Alexander Korda, starring Charles Laughton. It was never completed.]
Letter on International Affairs
Riding, Laura
Chatto & Windus
London
15-19
A36
1938
Schools [an international survey of education]
Graves, Robert; Riding, Laura
Riding, Laura
I, Claudius [novel]
Graves, Robert
London
Arthur Barker
A42
1934
Claudius Film Version [The Fool of Rome] [a condensed novel based on I, Claudius]
Graves, Robert
Trojan Ending, A [novel]
Riding, Laura
Deyá & London
Seizin & Constable
1937
To Juan Marroig in Prison [poem: unpublished?]
Riding, Laura
1937-03-13
Voltaire [The Vain Life of Voltiare, a poem; originally published by Hogarth Press]
Collected Poems
Riding, Laura
London, Toronto, Melbourne & Sydney
Cassell and Company Limited
371
a35
1938
Fallen Tower of Siloam [poem]
Collected Poems [1938]
Graves, Robert
London, Toronto, Melbourne & Sydney
Cassel and Co. Ltd.
A48
1937-03-19
The Readers [poem]
Collected Poems [1938]
Riding, Laura
London, Toronto, Melbourne & Sydney
Cassel and Co. Ltd.
331-333
a35
1937-03-20
Antigua Penny Puce
Graves, Robert
Deyá & London
Seizin & Constable
A46
1936
Victory [poem] [Presumably "Defeat of the Rebels". (Check drafts in Buffalo for this title.) DW]
Collected Poems (1938)
Graves, Robert
London, Toronto, Melbourne & Sydney
Cassell and Co. Ltd.
1938-11
Laura and Francisca
Riding, Laura
Deyá
Seizin
1931
Time [Magazine]
New York
Riding on Butler ["Letter defending the integrity of Samuel Butler"]
Time
Riding, Laura
p. 4, 6
C22
1937-04-26
Times [newspaper]
London
Times Newspapers
Times Literary Supplement
London
Times London
1902-1968
The Wounded Man [poem; discarded according to RPG (p. 270); Not traced. Apparently not published. DW]
Graves, Robert
1937-03-31