Diary of Robert Graves 1935-39 and ancillary material

Editorial Notes

Hands Referenced

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

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.)

• 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

• Ques.

  Castro y Quesada, Américo

  (1885-1972); Spanish philologist and cultural historian; Spanish ambassador to Berlin 1931-36 eds.

• Tio/Don Pedro & Tia/Doña Catalina

  Pedro or Catalina

  Cousins of Gelat from Madrid; RG refers to them interchangeably as Don or Doña and Tio/a, meaning uncle or aunt eds.

• Bill Fuller

  Fuller, William

  lawyer and researcher for Antigua Penny Puce KG; m. to Mary Fuller eds.

• Frank

  Morley, Frank

  With Faber and Faber. Involved with Old Soldier Sahib. WG

• Hillgarth

  Hillgarth

  Consul? Ambasador? Foreign Office. W.G.; Palma Consul KG

• Masquelet

  Lacaci, Carlos Masquelet

  Spanish Minister of War in the spring of 1936. See diary April 10, 13, 27 (1936). eds.

Organizations Mentioned

• Seizin Press

  Founded when Robert Graves and Laura Riding began their partnership in London. R.G. and L.R. continued to operate their own press in Deyá, but stopped printing in 1935. Seizin Press published a number of literary works in conjunction with Constable in London, including the Epilogue series, and other works by Laura Riding and their literary associates. eds

Bibliography

• • Title: Antigua Penny Puce
  • Author: Graves, Robert
  • PubPlace: Deyá & London
  • Publisher: Seizin & Constable
  • Idno: A46
  • 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