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Graves' diary manuscript includes 1546 pages including 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games, etc.
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The journal opens on 22 February 1935, the day that
Graves continues his work on Antigua, Penny, Puceuncertain yet whether
Graves also drafts several poems:
and
(later The Devil's Advice to Storytellers
). He and Riding correct the proofs of the current issue of Focus
(Graves and Riding begin printing before the end of the month - the first time they have printed anything since 1933 - and Graves seems generally pleased with the results, offering in the diary detailed advice on the best method for folding pages). Riding herself is rewriting Movements as Language
(or
to be published in Epilogue I
Graves spends the next several weeks in the garden with partly as a friend for the cats, partly to keep off orange and melon thieves,
but clearly mostly for himself, as is evidenced by the comfortable friendship he develops with the canine Salamo - or Solomon - in the coming months). Visits with the
The month ends with a concern: German royalties are significant, and Graves and Riding could use the money, but getting the money out of Germany may not be possible.