Friday Oct 23

Worked from 7.30 solidly through day. At 2.30 Miss Gosse the typist came & said how much they all (in the scenario typing bureau) liked the stuff. Brought the first 50 typed pp. [pages] Corrected it, Carl transcopying.
Laura so tired she went to bed. Got remainder of mss [manuscript] (to p [page]83)[RG].
In evening to supper with Korda & Biro. They went through stuff, pronounced it a useful second stage. Will stew over it for 10 days.

Hands Referenced

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

People Mentioned

  • Laura

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

  • Karl/Carl

    Goldschmidt, Karl
    Karl Goldschmidt, later Kenneth Gay: Graphic artist, friend and secretary of Robert Graves and Laura Riding since 1934. R. G. spells both as Carl and Karl.

  • Korda

    Korda, Alexander
    Director of the film version of I Claudius.

  • Miss Gosse

    Gosse, Miss
    typist eds. See diary October 22, 1936

  • Biro

    Biró, Lajos
    (1883-1948) a journalist and political secretary in Budapest, Biró wrote screenplays for Alexander Korda, including the ill-fated Claudius script eds.