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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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In work, April is a productive month. Proofs of Collected Poems
(which later becomes In Your Name,
and then
) and
(although before the end of the month, Riding will convince Graves that
the latter should be discarded). Riding rewrites the first scene of Graves'
dramatic version of Greeks
and Trojans. Graves also continues work on his book about Riding,
devotes more time to The SmugglerThe Swiss Ghost
Riding continues Lives of Wives
project. Graves and Riding consider various titles for the project;
eventually Riding comes up with
The typescript of The World and OurselvesRimbaud
Socially the month is subdued, though Easter depression is in
the air,
dimming his delight in an otherwise pleasant spring. some Egyptian germ.
Graves continues making necklaces from old
beads for the women in his life. This month he gives one to Marie, one to
Jenny and one to
The papers are beginning to carry accounts of the fate of the Jews of
Europe, but without editorial commentary on the situation. Riding writes a
letter to the Daily Telegraphdisgusted with
A small tragedy hits closer to home: Solace the cat is admitted to a veterinary hospital with a flu. She seems to be recovering, but then unexpectedly dies.
There are three enclosures this month:
Powerless in the Matter.