Jan 4 Friday[RG] Sat.

Working on Ecc habits.
Also long letter to L.H. in answer to one of his.
To Morley, who is pleased with O.S.S.
To Arthur Barker asking for royalty statement.
Long complicated & hopeless discussions as to where to put new kitchen & new comedór1.
Mild & windy. Pésames [sic: Pesamos]2 at Old Café.
Could not sleep with moon & distant chasing of sheep by dogs.
Walpole Letters3 came.

Editorial Notes

1dining room. WG
2messages of condolence. eds
3Horace Walpole. KG

Hands Referenced

    • Annotation: ink correction
    • Character: regular
    • Ink: black

Places Mentioned

  • 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

People Mentioned

  • Liddell Hart

    Liddell Hart, Capt. Basil
    War-fare expert and friend of T.E. Lawrence. Collaborated with RG on a book of T.E.L'.s letters, published in 1938. See RPG p.231. WG & Eds.

  • Frank

    Morley, Frank
    With Faber and Faber. Involved with Old Soldier Sahib. WG

Organizations Mentioned

  • Arthur Barker Ltd.

    Barker, Arthur
    The English publisher of I, Claudius and Claudius the God. WG

Bibliography

    • Title: English Ecclesiastical Habits [prose]
    • Author: Graves, Robert
    • Editor: Riding, Laura
    • Date: 1936
    • Title: Old Soldier Sahib
    • Author: Richards, Frank
    • Editor: Graves, Robert
    • PubPlace: London, New York
    • Publisher: Faber & Faber; Harrison Smith & Robert Haas
    • Idno: A44
    • Date: 1936