near the Italian border, where RG and LR spent part of 1937 eds.
Gambrinus
Lugano,
Lugano,
Switzerland
restaurant eds.
People Mentioned
Laura
Riding, Laura
(1901-91) American poet. Laura Riding (née Reichenthal; then Laura Gottschalk).
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
Strenge
Strenge, Frau Emmi
Schwarz's house keeper and ? mistress. WG
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.
Bibliography
Title: Smoke [poem: presumably "The Smoky House". See Complete Poems, Vol. II, pp. 82-83.
(Check drafts in Buffalo for this title.) DW]
