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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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What begins as an idyllic summer becomes increasingly violent as the civil war in Spain erupts and the best yet,
who makes almond ice cream and
Relations with Almost Forgotten GermanyDaily Chronicleimpossible,
although the tone of the diary hints that Graves might be flattered by the attention, nuisance or not.
But the political situation begins to break down before mid-month. The radio announces insurrection at Troops came through at night in
There are postal disruptions and radio reception is intermittent. There are sugar and coffee shortages, and Graves predicts flour and petrol shortages are not far off. Citizens begin to flee Palma for outlying villages as the city is bombed: The bombs are 'cannisters' like the sort the Germans used at
Graves' birthday on 24 July is marked by a warship visible off the coast. Restrictions are placed on social gatherings: no one is allowed to meet in groups of three or more in public, or to listen to neighbours' radios, or to circulate unfavourable comments about the military. Fascists eat and drink in town at the shopkeepers' expense, at gunpoint. Foreigners begin to leave for the present at least.
Despite political upheavals, the month is a productive one. Graves continues to work on Schoolscould not bring myself to work on
and confesses a Schoolsrevulsion against education.
He is also working feverishly on Antigua, Penny, Pucevery glad to publish
Antigua.
Graves goes over The Heathen
for EpiloguePoets
and
for
Riding is writing the final sections of A Trojan Ending
- and re-tools several others. Riding makes a few editorial suggestions for
which is eventually retitled
Graves also reworks
which is now
There are two enclosures this month:
Noticias dadas por radio ayer ,
Typical news!
La agresión de ayer manana .