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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 routine of work is punctuated by visits with family and friends, set
against a backdrop of growing political uneasiness as Hitler's power waxes,
and Austria surrenders to Germany (although official hopefulness
that
Italy might leave Spain).
Graves drafts a new poem, The Unrevealed,
and continues to work on
the dramatic version of A Trojan EndingBelisariustalk late at night about NOTHING.
(The World and Ourselves...overcome,
This month Riding also begins the preface to Lives of Wives
Riding and Graves receive another disturbing letter from J. Coghlan
of Dublin in suspiciously similar
handwriting. Riding and Graves enjoy a visit with the poet RimbaudSensitive the First.
Graves also has a
photo session with a manuscript case and a
tea-party with crackers.
This is the first time that
As usual, Graves delights in buying little gifts and trinkets; much time is
spent poking around the Snow White.
At home, various household repairs disrupt the rhythm of daily life. Graves wakes up one morning to the smell of a dead rat in the wainscoting. Finding the source of the smell and repairing the damage - as well as repairing a leak in the kitchen, an old pipe in the lavatory and faulty telephone lines - are hampered by wet weather. Solace the cat is also ill with worms; concerned, Graves and Riding take her to a vet.
There is one enclosure this month: a clipping from the TimesCivil War in