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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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Early in the month It was the first time
It
becomes apparent later that Symons did not after all find the session so
satisfactory. Writes Graves a few weeks after the encounter, Symons found
Laura aggressive and wearing, and told
Of his
own work, Graves writes, Laura went over poems, early ones: suppressed
two, worked on four.
Graves' contempt for rudeness and impertinence is clear in his response to
the presumptuous demand of a fan: Someone called Gardner sent books for
me to sign unasked: I put them in a cloakroom at
Towards the end of
May, remarking on a visit from sweet child but children tire me more than anything in the
world.
Even his reading material does not escape the scathing stroke
of Graves' pen: Read an American thriller Hot Gold: without
enjoyment.
This month Graves writes several new poems and reworks several old ones. May
sees drafts of
and In Your Name
(now called
) and
both receive more attention. Graves also continues to chip away at The SmugglerLives of WivesSchoolsLeft HeresyYear of Damagemercy clause
to the
The World and Ourselves
Graves has considerable contact with queer,
notes Graves.
has become a good Catholic.
Graves continues to buy trinkets and
gifts for friends, including a Robinson Crusoe book for
The health of both poets worsens. Graves begins the month with stomach
problems and engages in a course of self-medication with brandy. Riding is
tired and feels sick for several days. When she begins to suffer
palpitations, the doctor is called in. He deduces that her heart is
merely tired
and advises rest. Graves develops a pain just above
his liver and consults the doctor, who hopes it is not stone or
gravel.
The month ends with both writers on several prescribed
medications.
There are six enclosures this month:
( a letter from J. H. Williams)Count Belisarius
Belisarius(Graves' response to the letter from J. H. Williams)
English Humourists(a letter from Graves about the neglect of