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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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Year of Damagemanfully doing his 10
Graves helps Greek Wedding. The HeathenA Trojan EndingT.E. Lawrence to His Biographer
Jenny problem
is serious enough that deliberately tried to force marriage by blackmail.
Graves and Nicholson settle Jenny's account at Robert Graves: The Years with Laura 1926-40 261-264; Miranda Seymour, Robert Graves: Life on the Edge 247-48
Graves' mood is not improved by his general suspicion that he is much too fat
and a gloomy feeling that
the throne in order to marry American divorcée Wallis Simpson. Later in the month, after much public speculation, this is exactly what the king does. Graves and no more appetite for cigarettes,
although a few days later notes in the diary that he is smoking four cigarettes per day.
Graves visits Jenny almost daily in the hospital, and writes worriedly about complications.
He also frets that Jenny is silly again about
and notes that Laura talked her sensible, after tears.
The political situation in Spain does not enhance the tenor of the month; Graves writes that everyone is waiting for Hitler to make up his mind.
But Christmas is coming, and with it a certain Christmas cheer. In spite of his worries, Graves seems to enjoy himself. holly the flat,
and enjoy Christmas dinner at
Graves and Riding hold a New Year's celebration at the flat at 10 Dorset Street, and everyone writes New Year's resolutions for each other. Graves writes a New Year's letter to Jenny.
There are four enclosures this month:
The King Abdicates.