Sunday March 15.th

Wrote 11 pp [pages] of Chapter VIII of Antigua. Hot day.
Laura going over 'Private Conversation'1 for Epilogue
Gelat wires 'arriving tomorrow'; from Alicante. Medora pessimistic.
Laura's green shot-silk blouse from Margarita.
Transplanted the Dama de Noche 2.
Anti-March3 demonstrations in Palma.
First artichokes.

Editorial Notes

2an evergreen shrub eds.
3Juan March KG; RG associates with Franco: see March 16th. eds

Hands Referenced

Places Mentioned

  • Palma

    Palma, Majorca, Sp
    Capital and largest centre of Majorca.

People Mentioned

  • Laura

    Riding, Laura
    (1901-91) American poet. Laura Riding (née Reichenthal; then Laura Gottschalk).

  • 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.)

  • Madora

    Marroig Más, Madora
    Gelat's wife. W.G. R.G. often spells her first name "Medora," and precedes it with "the." eds.

  • Margarita Modista

    Margarita Modista
    Modista: Dress maker (in Deyá). W.G., eds.

Bibliography

    • Title: Antigua Penny Puce
    • Author: Graves, Robert
    • PubPlace: Deyá & London
    • Publisher: Seizin & Constable
    • Idno: A46
    • Date: 1936
    • Title: Epilogue II
    • Editor: Riding, Laura & Graves, Robert
    • PubPlace: Deyá & London
    • Publisher: Seizin & Constable
    • Idno: B24
    • Date: 1936
    • Title: From a Private Correspondence on Reality [prose]
    • Title: Epilogue III
    • Author: Graves, Robert/ Riding Laura
    • Editor: Laura Riding
    • PubPlace: Deyá & London
    • Publisher: Seizin & Constable
    • BiblScope: 107-130
    • Date: 1937-04