Sept 1. Sunday.

A.F.T. Almost Forgotten Times Chapter XIX.

Sea. Letter to Julie.

Schw Schwarz & Str. Strenge to supper. Made Inca-and-paste sandwiches, mortadella & tomato ditto & a cold punch of equal quantities of white wine & sherry, with soda & lemon peel.

Karl with a fearful cold.

Pocket-knife from Str. Strenge

Laura troubled with the small print of Classical Atlas.

Watch apparently lost.

Sept 2 Monday.

Sebastian trimmed blackberry hedge.

A.F.T. Almost Forgotten Times Chapter XX.

Laura wore the santa sky-blue jacket with silver buttons.

Joän Junyer came to introduce the Hutchinsons: invited for tomorrow night.

Pepe came & discussed unemployment, anxious to stir about things. Gelat is getting him to compose a letter signed by all unemployed asking the SeñorProprietor. KG of Sa Pedrissa to give them work or stop the water agitation: & a deputation will visit Red-eye Bartolomé.

To sea with Antonio the Murcian, to show him about collecting stones for the work Str. Sch. Schwarz tomorrow.

Wrote a letter to Red Tape? eds about should & would.

Sept 3 Tuesday.

A.F.T. Almost Forgotten Times Chapter XXI rather a struggle, heavy day.

Gelat came with figs.

Sea: the Murcians collecting stones - about 4000: but permission needed from Coastguard Sergeant.

Letter to Sam & Catherine in answer to one from them. L. sent £1 each.

After supper Joän Junyer came to coffee, & Walt Ward & Dorothy Hutchinson. Quite nice. Laura carried on a writing conversation with J.J. Joän Junyer

Mailing list for Constable started.

Sept 4 Wednesday.

To Palma 8.30.

Dentist; Laura & I (15 pes pesetas each)

Bought silk stuff for shirt for me & dressing-gown for Laura. Lamp for Laura's workroom 48 pes pesetas . Gold watch 'Touring' at Pomar 140 pes pesetas & pale gold chain 50. First once one since my confirmation one lost during War.

Lunch at Lena's Bar for first time: very good food but starings.

Bought six teaspoons at Pomar for 4 pesetas each.

Tarring Valldemossa - Deyá & Valdemossa Valldemossa - Palma road.

Coffee at Sch Schwarz & Str. Strenge who are giving up flat & taking another in the Taberna VascaBasque Tavern[?] eds (bankrupt now) building.

On way back Gelat stopped at the fincafarm. KG of the man who bought Molí to sell again. G. Gelat had fixed up a delicate business for him with the judge.

Dead tired by Palma air: but listened-in at Sala to GenevaLeague of Nations,[re.?]Abyssinia. KG 1st day report.

Sept 5 Thursday.

Wrote to Morley in answer to letter about Richards: suggesting he keep R. Richards up to it & if necessary see that he dictates. Finished Constable mailing-list for circulars.

Murcians brought up stones for Schw. Schwarz Killed about 60 sea-urchins in Cala on rocks to the right, with stick. Very hot day indeed.

Juan brought melon which he ate with L Laura & me at Can Torrent.

Focus contribution.

A little of A.F.T. Almost Forgotten Times Chapter XXII

Sept 6 Friday.

A.F.T. Almost Forgotten Times Chapter XXII. Village for meat.

Sea. Lluchalcari beach: sat awhile in Can Piloni with the Amotenant-farmer. KG & Juan of the Hotel & children. Greeted by Sebastian Junyer Joän's uncle. KG & his wifeMatilda. KG, most cordially.

Juanrefers to Gelat here. KG put the light in Laura's workroom.

To Lluchalcari by car for supper at the hotel: coffee with the Hutchinsons afterwards. L Laura took away his articles on photography.

Sept 7 Saturday

A.F.T. Almost Forgotten Times Chapter XXIII. Very slow.

To Lluchalcari with letter to Hutchinson which Laura wrote; left it.

Completed Focus contribution.

Broke glass of watch from pressing case in centre to shut it.

To village at 9 with Laura and Karl.

Letter from Current Controversy:? KG underlines: a periodical? eds replied that I did not believe in controversy.

Karl's frieze for orchestraband-stand. KG finished & much admired.

Sept 8th. Sunday (Fornalutx fiesta)Village feast day. KG

Letter from Richards answering questions & adding 44 pp of text.

A.F.T. Almost Forgotten Times Chapter XXIV

Left Solomon'sRG's dog eds chain by the sea.

Remarkably good melons - the ones from Palma are like pumpkins. Sebastian says that the difference is between real manure & chemical manure.

Monday. Sept 9th

All day going over Richards Old Soldier Sahib. eds. Did 26 pp. Very heavy day indeed.

Sea.

Worked till 12.30 A.M.

Present to Dorothy Hutchinson of Letters to Catherine & marmalade.

Sent watch in to Palma for mending glass & cleaning.

Isabel away with headache.

Tuesday Sept 10th

All day on Richards Old Soldier Sahib. eds again: completed the batch.

Sea.

Karl painted the chromium lamp shafts at Canellun. Sea: roughish.

Rosa came with new blue shirt for me. Catalina did 15 bottles of tomatoes.

Letter from John about David. Wrote to John suggesting that David after getting Higher Certificate should travel & prepare for his Oxford scholarship abroad. Offered J John & D David and amnesty.

Change in weather predicted.

Wednesday Sept 11

Fruit trees sprayed by Gelat's brother in law Jaime. Did a little work on Richards Old Soldier Sahib. eds.

The Hutchinsons came to lunch: took several photographs of each of us, talked, visited the Posada with the idea of Box & Coxingan expression meaning "two people who are never together, never at home at the same time."(OED) Derived from a John Maddison Morton's farce Box and Cox: A Romance of Real Life in One Act (London, 1847). eds with Honor next year, went down to bathe with me, came, talked over at Can Torrent. He will do the photography article for Epilogue. Left his poems. Trying to find bathing-girl models.

In evening to village alone to order things from Palma & get ice - talked with Medora about Francisquito's diet.

Did half A.F.T. Almost Forgotten Times Chapter XXV.

Wild peony seed pod opened: brightred with black seeds.

Cooller.

Thursday, Sept 12 (Name of Maria)Maria's Name Day? eds

Finished A.F.T. Almost Forgotten Times Chapter XXV.

Went over typing of Old Soldier Sahib.

Laura read me scene in Helen's chamber from Troy.

Old Soldier Sahib in afternoon (marking out chapters) and letter to A.G. Amy Graves (also one written by Laura) in answer to disrespectful one of hers about difficulties. Wrote to Richards.

Walk past Lluchalcari.

Windy: slight rain.

It came on to rain violently when we were in the village: where we sat in the Sala talking to the General's General Barceló? eds. son-in-law who promised to advise us on the garden.

Letter to Mrs Ashby about spiritism.

Watch back mended.

Friday. Sept 13th.

Addition to introduction to O.S.S. Old Soldier Sahib

Jenny, David, Catherine & Sam wrote to thank Laura for £1: & also to me. Different tone since the Devili.e. Geoffrey Taylor, formerly Phibbs. KG. See RPG p.233 got married (his new house has been turned down, Jenny said) Went over typing of O.S.S. Old Soldier Sahib , Chapter 15

Showery day.

Jenny's handwriting like mine at her age. David's like Tony's, Catherine's like Ros & her mother.

Wrote to children. Sent N.N. Nancy Nicholson £150

Went over typing of O.S.S. Old Soldier Sahib Chapter XVI, and of addition to introduction.

Went to village wearing leather shoes.

Looked out quotations for 'Poets' which L Laura is going over.

Saturday Sept 14

Cool & sunny. It was a steady soak yesterday evening and night. Clouded over later.

Part of A.F.T. Almost Forgotten Times Chapter XXVI

Letter from Liddell Hart approving plan, but not sure about time-factor Answered at length, soon rather than later. I estimated material at 50,000 words (with notes & references to letters).

Walk along road., General's son-in-law came & gave advice about plants.See Sept.12th entry. eds Also the Hutchinsons who talked till suppertime.

The Estancos now sell a smokable Virginia cigarette, at 2 pesetas, in cellophane. The first serious step against the smuggling trade.

Gelat came: & told us the comic story of how the Doctor, Bartolomé, the Sa Pedrissa colonotenant. KG & young Estanco Estanco's son? eds testified: none was able to make a statement worth anything. The Dr could not even sign his name to his declaration. The Judge's representative had been primed, & if no dirty work is done the interdict will be quashed: but the case will be won.

Sunday. Sept 15

Laura had been up till 3 working (at Poets I think) & writing a letter to Ward Hutchinson about his poems: she only found two short sequences of poetry which were all right in his book. The rest merely traditional or ornate.

I wrote a letter to Honor & began A.F.T. Almost Forgotten Times Chapter XXVII. In the afternoon I went to Lluchalcari with the letter & Laura's L & F Laura and Francisca & Lying Word & since the reaction was favourable invited them to supper. On the way noted a few lines for a Labyrinth poem.?? Not traced. eds Heavy weather again.

More A.F.T. Almost Forgotten Times Then supper & we went to the Sala (the side-piecesof the band-stand. KG now painted) & had ices with Gelat & Medora. Introduction bungle because of L Laura 's sleepiness & the noise in the Sala.

Isabel has symptoms which may be consumptive: must take her in on Thursday.

Ordered a mica-glass for my watch: the snap case comes to too glas close to the thin glass & cracks it.

Decided to buy Ca'n Gelat, if he will sell it, as a guest house.

Monday Sept 16

Finished A.F.T. Almost Forgotten Times Chapter XXVII started XXVIII.

Watch came back mended.

To sea but the Cala was full of sea-weed so went along to Lluchalcari & bathed (left my bathing-trunks behind: left message at Hotel for them)the Hutchinsons. KG.

Watch came back, and Laura's earrings, a success.

Found the meaning of fennel in the Prometheus legend: tinder.

Laura struggling with Troy: unable to find Kabesos anywhere. To village with Karl to hear radio: there Gelat's sister gave us peaches. Medora gave us G Gelat 's message that he had gone out to collect bait for fishing. Finished Chapter XXVIII.

Tuesday Sept 17

Three inserts for Richards: typed & stuck in.

Started ChapterXXIX A.F.T. Almost Forgotten Times

Laura writing dictating letters to Carl (Constable's estimates for books too high) Wrote one or two short letters for her.

Melvilles novelsby American novelist Herman Melville (1819-1891)? eds, the Sorrows of Werther The Sorrows of Young Werther [Die Lieden des jungen Werthers] by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, first published 1774. eds & the Sheba book came. Looked out dates of electric light stages in diary for Gelat, whose witnesses go in tomorrow.

To coffee at Lluchalcari with Hutchinsons & their sculptor friend, John Lite Waters a blond unshaven chap dressed like a sailor: lot of talk, nothing said.

Sent melon to G Gelat 's sister.

Ward Hutchinson completed the photography article.

Wednesday Sept 18th.

Found Sebastian for him to be photographed by W. Hutchinson. Who took him (with & without flower) & Solomon,RG's bull-dog. eds & AliceLR's cat. eds & the rest.

Finished A.F.T. Almost Forgotten Times Chapter XXIX. Also an insert, in consequence of a letter from Richards: who also said that Morley was pleased.

Went over part of Poets with Laura: & transcopied: sent off to Honor.

Karl transcopied p 111-226 of O.S.S. Old Soldier Sahib but missed out some 60 ppwhich I did later, ready to send off. Unpleasant Irishwoman in bus.

Gelat told us of very successful day. 29 witnesses, only 15 of which needed, escribienteclerk. KG in favour. 'Boy' Boi , the turpe torpe dull, heavy, stupid; nickname of a Deyá resident who was not very bright. eds,KG, gave evidence & gave away the whole show - meetings at the M. Médico 's house, where it was decided to plead in forma pauperis and share expenses; no prejudices from depositowater tank. KG etc. The escribiente said that a criminal action for conspiracy lay. Soon over now, we hope.

Laura revising M.R Michael Roberts 's anthology introduction in so far as it concerns us.

Thursday Sept 19th

To Palma: L. Laura C Carl & I, also Medora & Francisquito: & Isabel.

Doctor said, no tuberculosis only old sclerosis due to some pneumonia or something in past.A check-up for the maid Isabel. See Diary entry Sept.15th. eds.

Gelat met us: paid him 2500pesetas. RG indicates this currency in various ways, and sometimes not at all. The correct abbreviation according to KG is "pts." eds. on account, & 1000pts as deposit on purchase of Ca'n Gelat - price to be fixed later. Esc.Specialist. KG says all well. Laura's throat also not so bad, he says. Bought olive wood cigarette case & Laura got me eau de Cologne & powder. Schw. Schwarz went off to Madrid (yesterday he offered to pay expenses of his book). Gelat bought a lot of tables & chairs cheap for Sala at Molinar.

Thelin gave us German introduction to St Paul book. Told us of Nazi burglaries of their flat, & tearing up anti-Nazi papers.

On return letter from Mother Amy Graves. eds: respectful to Laura. John about David. H.S. Harrison Smith about O.S.S. Old Soldier Sahib (not yet read, but O.S.N.D. Old Soldiers Never Die very much admired). C. the G. Claudius the God sales less than I had reckoned, but 12,100 sold up to date & 20,000 of I.C. I, Claudius & 2000 at 2 dollars.

Bought glass grease-stops for candles.

Letters for Honor as though coming here.

Friday Sept 20th

Letter to Philip about Millicent.

Magnificent HadrianIsh-Kishor, Sulamith and Dreiser, Theodore. Magnificent Hadrian: a biography of Hadrian, emperor of Rome. New York: Minton, Balch & Co., 1935. KG/eds sent for review by Observer. Reviewed it. Wretched stuff.

To Lluchalcari with film for Hutchinson and message from Laura that she liked his attack of subject, so far as she had read. Karl had bought the wrong films. They gave me coffee.

D.H. Dorothy Hutchinson complains how cold the nights were (after burning in the sun all day)

Isabel not well enough to come.

Laura going over Michael Robertsintroduction. KG still.

To village to hear news & order things. Found Gelat's 6 marble tables & 6 wooden ones and 15 comfortable chairs, & bar of Alhambra-like glazed tiles, in position. Ordered clock to complete effect of well-stocked café.

First draft of poem Gulls & Such.see Complete Poems, Vol. II, p. 337, and note on "Fragment of a Lost Poem" p. 313. DW; eds.

?Apple-meddlars? Acerolo crataogus azarolus. KG from feathery tree in garden.

Saturday Sept 21

Went over typed review & sent off.

Three more drafts of Gulls & Such.

Read Laura's version of W.Hutch's Photography article. Rosa came.

Letter from Cape: £40 con amore placed in my bank for 2/- L.& A Lawrence and the Arabs . Wrote to him, confidentially mentioning the L.H. Liddell-Hart idea.

Part of A.F.T. Almost Forgotten Times Chapter XXX. Attempt to get Alice's kittens by locking her in & then releasing her: but she won. Sea (Cala)first time for a long time. Copies of Itla Italian Io ClaudioMondadori [publishers?] KG.

Hutchinsons to supper.

(Bisontesa brand of Spanish cigarettes. KG at 1.50pts.).

Laura went over Photography with him Ward Hutchinson (two hours) while she Dorothy. KG Karl & I went to the village. Clock in position.Clock RG purchased for the Sala? See Sept.20th entry. eds Heard news of Italy's rejection of Terms of 5 powers. Played dice for 2 centimos1/100th peseta. WG stakes.

Laura & I walked to Lluchalcari home with them: NicholasLaura's tom-cat. KG so tired on way home that he had to be carried.

Sunday Sept 22

W. Wild goose chase with Karl for Alice's kittens. She tricked us. Heavy weather.

Finished A.F.T. Almost Forgotten Times Chapter XXX

Began Chapter XXXI. Specimen came back of O.S.S. Old Soldier Sahib from H.S.th Harrison Smith Gordon: a hopeless letter. Sea.

A poem, in two drafts, called A Note on the Natural Affections.Not traced. Apparently not published. DW

Letter for H.S. Harrison Smith sending agreements signed: forwarded these to Richards with instructions.

Barceló's son-in-law came: he promises up alfalfa & lent us catalogues. We gave him some tulip bulbs.

To Fábrica with Laura where found dance in progress. Bernado's wife had been told by Pacoher son. KG that Isabel and Josefa were going backwith him to Murcia on Friday.

The valance up on stage & radio on shelf.in the Sala. eds

Monday Sept 23.

Pepe's men at work at Posada: found that well was made of great square blocks of stone - which he & Gelat say is unique in the village.

Worked over remaining corrections of Richards Old Soldier Sahib. eds for insertion and began writing a blurb for the book.

Ordered Karl's razorRolls brand. KG.

To Lluchalcari to bathe, but didn't: detective reconstruction of set y mitg7 1/2 [card-game] KG party from 2 niñasgirls. WG and an eighteight [year-old?] KG, under pines. SolomonRG's bull-dog eds sucked a sheep's ear & got smacked.

Very heavy day.

Isabel has been away from work all this time.

Laura & I went to Sala late & played parchesi. Decided that we must buy that dragon picture for the Sala from Margarita Mateu.

Letter from Honor: making it clear that she isn't coming.

Tuesday. Sept 24

Catalina came to wash.

Completed O.S.S. Old Soldier Sahib blurb.

It thundered in the night: cooller now.

Went with Gelat to Miramar, he saw oneMagdalenathe Magdalena who would become their new maid? eds: Laura thinks of letting the Murciansthe immigrant domestic help eds go, paying an extra month. Got seeds, & two plants - grey-green, don't know the name.

Did A.F.T. Almost Forgotten Times Chapter XXXI, also pasted in corrections of O.S.S. Old Soldier Sahib

Paco came: Laura told him about Isabel & offered to pay the rest of month & an extra month to enable them all to go Thursday: & also to buy the bed possibly. Pleased, he.

To village with Laura at Fábrica listened to Milan (Spanish anti-British propaganda). Gelat told us that Casañer, ourselves, & Pepe Salas had been denounced as spies: this is a mixed story, clearly indicating the charlatán & médico. Castañer & P.S. Pepe Salas were interested in previous road. Castañer's son-in-law is bosom pals with Franco's adjutant: so it will all come out.

20th anniversary of Loos. Wednesday Sept 25.

To village at 7.30 to catch Gelat. Already gone to Palma. Went over checks in Photography with Laura & then she read me some Troy.

Hibiscus flowered. Sent blurb to Morley.

To hotel Hotel Costa d'Or. KG: took Photography; brought back specimen photographs. One nice one of suburban snow. A dama de nochenight-flowering shrub. KG from hotel: planted it in 2 cuttings. Josefa very sad at leaving. To Puig to say goodby to Isabel. Josefa got gold & stone earrings, Isabel a coral necklace. Isabel very sad. Paco would sell his bed, but 75 p. pesetas wasn't enough, he said: no bargaining. Paid rest of month & extra month for both girls, also 30 p pesetas . Then Paco & MotherCarmen, mother of Josepha and Isabella. eds hinted for more (Laura severe) Later we went to Cas Pintat to settle pay Mother'si.e. Carmen's eds 75 p. peseta debt there.

At Posada went down well, which was is built of solid blocks of masonry, to see the cleaning out operations. They had chipped away floor and joined in the blocks to recement. Ten culs-de-cantharasbroken bottoms of water-jugs. KG had been found in the well. Old man of café says that he was at the Posada 70 years ago when a cura had it as a boy's school.

Visit from Don Sebastian Junyer and JuanitoKG indicates that RG is referring to Joän Junyer here. eds: talked about denunciasdenunciations. KG hinting at Doctorthe Médico. eds, & fixed up for us to see their pictures on Friday. Then H's Hutchinsons , who were very nice, stopped till after lights out. Laura paid W.H. Ward Hutchinson £5.5 for Photography & the snow picture: & they both appreciated the notes L had written.

A.F.T. Almost Forgotten Times Chapter XXXII, half of it.

Thursday, Sept 26th

Catalina came. Magdalena can't come till Monday. A.F.T. Almost Forgotten Times Chapter XXXII finished.

Letter from Liddell Hart agrees on getting on with Richards T.E. T.E. Lawrence book: will see Arnie early in October. Asked me to get my part typed: replied would wait till hearing definitely. Also letter from Richards thanking for Empresses Lives of the Roman Empresses. KG; could be a volume of: de Serviez,J.R. tr. B. Molesworth. The Roman Empresses. London, 1752; New York, 1913. ? eds & answering questions, which incorporated in text. Says has reached Burmah part (last 15 months of service). Enclosed hearty letter from Morley.

Catalina & her sister doing arrears of washing. Things put back in wrong places.

Yellow crocuses out in garden & algarrobacarob-tree. KG blossom stinking.

Walk this side of Calabat; brought back heather.

Laura sent off Photography to Epilogue printers: tired & went to bed early. This morning police arrested two young men at Casa SiquiMrs. Hernandes's[?] house. KG in connexion with a Palma crime — the assault of & robbery from a cashier of a silk factory at Santa Maria: one of the young men was the son of the factory owner & on bad terms with his father. A lot of homosexual stuff had been going on there, Gelat says. Karl had already suspected it.

Sept 27, Friday.

A.F.T. Almost Forgotten Times Chapter XXXIII, a part.

Hutchinsons came, photographed Gelat; & two colour ones of me near Casa Siqui ; then took them past Salerosa to photograph some rain-channelled rocks, also an olive broken with age sprouting new with wild olive. Nice letter from Philip.

Lot of housework with Isabel & Josefa gone. Did some O.S.S. Old Soldier Sahib adjustments.

Car took us to Lluchalcari at 3. Talked awhile with Ferrar (first time Laura had met him) who showed us a view & was plainspoken about the Casa Siqui invertidoshomosexuals. KG. Then to Junyers who were hospitable & showed us their curio-museum-house & then, (one at a time, Clothilde & Juan Joän reserved for future sessions) Sebastian's paintings — work of successive Springs & autumns, airy landscapes of Deyá; & Lluchalcari, some very good, especially one damp spring one taken from above near the Recó, & an upwards view of Lluchalcari in autumn. Tea with melon, almond cakes, mixed honey, & sherry with clinking salvestoasts to good health! KG and talk against the wah-wah, of Mallorquinsbased on a saying that Mallorquins talk like dogs: 'wah wah.' KG which we resented. Walk home.

I went alone to Sala & said goodbye to LeonoraColom? WG & her mother: & MarcoMarcos Colom, son of Bernardo. WG privately begged me to persuade his father (as if I knew nothing about it) to let him continue at Barcelona University — he wanted to move him to Palma. I found Gelat (secretly prompted by M Marcos 's mother) had also been urging this & chipped in with arguments. Bernardo gave in. Reassuring letter to G. Gelat from his cousin in Madrid about the road. Laura up late, doing Troy battles according to Othryoncus Oxyrthincus Papyrus. KG

Sept 28 Saturday.

Finished A.F.T. Almost Forgotten Times Chapter XXXIII

To village for fideyos fideos noodles. KG & a sheeps head for SolomonGraves' bull-dog. eds.

Rosa came. Seizin announcements in Criterion & Times Lit. Supp.

Letter from David: Much the nicest people go to Cambridge ( N.N Nancy Nicholson ) Answered appropriately.

Catalina says that Isabel boasted of having answered Laura back. Settled bills at Cas Pintat, Juana (fish) & Baker. 200 pesetas in all. & visited well. Matias says that the tree from the other side of the maestro'sschoolmaster's. KG house has its roots in the cracks of the well, forcing out the cement.

Very tired & bed fairly early after housework.

Laura ordered seeds

Sept 29 Sunday.

Joint in oven (first time for ages). Went over garden catalogues with Laura. Wrote to A.G. Amy Graves A.F.T. Almost Forgotten Times Chapter XXXIV started.

Sea.

Hutchinsons came 5.30 stayed till 11 — going Tuesday. Laura went over his poems with him. She & I got supper — afterwards to village & brought ice-cream back in a thermos. They were quite nice people in their way.

Jonathan wrote suggesting the remaindering of But It Still Goes On.

Sept 30 Monday.

Wrote to John G. & J.C. Jonathan Cape

Cleaning out cellars in preparation for Magdalena: all morning — Laura, Karl, Catalina & me.

Finished A.F.T. Almost Forgotten Times Chapter XXXIV. To Posada with various things. Heavy weather.

Decided to build casitashed. KG at Can Torrent.

Gasbutane. KG finished.

Magdalena arrived.

Bought springabove Can Torrent. KG from Bernardo for 1500 pesetas.

Wrote to Arthurby about overdue quarterly returns.

Went to Sala & played Parchesi with Gelat, Karl & Laura. Magdalena came too & talked to Anita.

Started A.F.T. Almost Forgotten Times Chapter XXXV

A close night with distant lightning.