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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 month begins with the arrival of a disturbing letter from
Graves' major writing project for the next few months is Belisarius
and a sonnet that he initially calls The Young Captain
and which
he refers to later as
He also does a bit more work on
and The Swiss GhostThe Kind Ghost). October also sees
correspondence with Year of DamageSunday ExpressI made no statement beyond that this was the first I had
heard of it.
Riding is busy throughout October - and for the rest of the year - with the
(The World and OurselvesPart V
in The World and Ourselves. By the end of the month,
she begins work on the last section of the book. She also sends a collection
of her poems to Heinemann. But she suffers sinus trouble and head colds,
which leave her tired and worn. Graves, too, suffers from frequent chills
and headaches.
Graves continues to practise archery, graduating from rabbits to pheasants,
without success.
Despite an early frost and the rain that
dominates late in the month, Graves delights in a walk in the mist
through moist woods
- sometimes joined by Alan Hodge,
Another gathering of friends results in a communal sonnet (reproduced in the
diary: see the enclosures for October). Times Literary SupplementThomas Lovell Beddoes.
But while Graves and Riding and
Sitting round coal-fire in room with purple carpet; talking of plans
together, all of us. Basilisk sinks an Italian submarine.
And a few days later:
There are six enclosures this month:
Witchballs and Sea Serpentsby
Sonnet
Robert Graves and the Nobel Prize