Saturday Oct 3rd

Boil not so painful in morning but increasingly so all day.
Still sore throat.
Wrote to Eddie about Christopher Hassall's Devil's Dyke1 poems.
Rested on L's bed while she went over poems with Joyce Reeves.
Read War in Outline2 and wrote to L.H. about it.

Editorial Notes

1 Devil's Dyke with Compliments and Satire by Christopher Hassall London: W. Heinemann, 1936. eds.
2 The War in Outline, 1914-1918 by Basil H. Liddell Hart. London: Faber & Faber, 1936 eds.

Hands Referenced

People Mentioned

  • Laura

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

  • 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.

  • Christopher Hassall

    Hassall, Christopher
    author of Devil's Dyke (1936) and biographer of Edward Marsh (1959) to which Graves contributed letters eds.

  • Joyce Reeves

    Reeves, Joyce
    Sister of James Reeves. AMG 287.

  • 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.

Organizations Mentioned

  • Faber & Faber

    Publishers of Old Soldier Sahib and Old Soldiers Never Die. WG