Diary of Robert Graves 1935-39 and ancillary material

Editorial Notes

Hands Referenced

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

Places Mentioned

• Deyá

  Deyá, Majorca, Sp

  Town located on the northwest coast of Majorca, on the hillside between the Teix Mountains and the sea: this was RG's home with Laura Riding from 1929 to 1936. He returned there with his family after WW II. Eds.

People Mentioned

• 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.

• Laura

  Riding, Laura

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

• Strenge

  Strenge, Frau Emmi

  Schwarz's house keeper and ? mistress. WG

• Alan

  Hodge, Alan

  Oxford history graduate. Became close friends with LR & RG. First husband of Beryl Graves. CP & WG

• Beryl

  Pritchard, Beryl

  daughter of Harry and Amy Pritchard, R.G.'s second wife. Formerly married to Alan Hodge. Robert and Beryl had four children: William, Lucia, Juan and Tomas. eds

• Leman

  Leman

  German painter who lived in Deyá , & eventually died there, aged 102 K.G.

• Krasnik

  Krassnigg

  Austrian Deyá resident. W.G. Austrian painter: his wife's name was Pauline. K.G.

• Frau Emmerich; "Jämmerlich"

  Emmerich, Frau

  German painter, from Magdeburg, resident in Deyá. Invariably referred to with the prefix "Frau". K.G./ WG