Diary of Robert Graves 1935-39 and ancillary material: Entry for 1936-04-23

April 1936

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Sam & David write to say they are coming in the summer. Sam sends ship picture. Wrote to A.G. and to L.H.

Ant. slowly. Have got to p [page] 143, jacking-up all the time.

Laura has bad throat still: went to bed early with it.

Wire from Gelat from Madrid: 'Todo va bien' 1. Laura's denuncia2 of the Cura forwarded to Azaña3.

Laura has chill from not going to bed after a late hot bath on Tuesday.

Reading "Letters of Susan Ferrier"4.

Gave Schw a Can Pabo Rose, from the Posada ,[RG].

1 "All goes well" K.G.

2complaint K.G.

3Republican Cabinet Minister in Madrid K.G.

4 Memoirs and Correspondence of Susan Ferrier 1782-1854 by S. Ferrier, John Andrew, and John Ferrier (1898)

Laura
Riding, Laura
(1901-91) American poet. Laura Riding (née Reichenthal; then Laura Gottschalk).
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.
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.)
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.
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
Sam
Graves, Samuel
R.G.'s youngest child by Nancy Nicholson. C.P.& WG
Ferrier
Ferrier, Susan
(1782-1854) eds.
A.G. (A.E.S.G)
Graves, Amy
Amy Graves, RG's Mother. WG
Cura
Jordi, Don
Don Jordi, the Priest. WG