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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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FEBRUARY 1939

Riding's Lives of Wives is sent off to Cassell's on 1 February, and Graves and Riding check the last scenes of Greeks and Trojans before sending it off to Watt a few days later. Hodge and Graves continue with the Dictionary, and Hodge and Riding work on Year of Damage. Riding is also going over Hodge's Journeys. Riding and Graves resurrect The Swiss Ghost, and Graves reads over the Left Heresy proofs.

This month Graves drafts several new poems: A Love Story (about moon and frost), another about cats, A Portrait of Little Jacob (based on a dream) and Meum and Tuum,"Mine and Yours" eds which becomes The Thieves. Riding drafts several poems as well: A Lesson Starting with Stars, Rubber and a longer one, provisionally Gods. McIntyre of Little, Brown sends a cable in response to the Dictionary letter, and all outstanding concerns about the project are resolved. Riding and Graves also write a joint letter to the Sunday Times; it is published later in the month.

Joyce Reeves arrives for an extended visit, which proves trying for everyone. Writes Graves, Joyce is making god-awful aggressive remarks: trying Riding's hostess spirit, and Joyce is such a bore: coughing all over everything & making crude remarks. Later Joyce loses her voice, but nobody minds. And finally, Joyce went: thank God. But she leaves behind her flu, and everyone catches it.

Honor also writes to suggest a visit, her long silence explained by a letter gone astray and her new pregnancy (the baby is due in July).

Generally the evenings are quiet. Graves and company play Russian billiards and make plans to travel to America in the spring. As always, late-night walks are favoured: A walk ... through the mist - full moon somewhere - with all of us at midnight to the station ... home to tea and anchovy-toast.

The friends also celebrate Beryl's birthday, and have lunch at Chez Metayer (guinea fowl & salad) in honour of the demise of Yeats.

There are six enclosures this month:

1. Clipping from Time and Tide: a review of Graves' Collected Poems and Riding's Collected Poems 2. Graves' response to the Time and Tide review of Riding's Collected Poems (2 pages) 3. Letter from Graves to Time and Tide 4. Letter from Graves to the Daily Mail: Robert Graves's Poems 5. Note written by Graves 6. Clipping from the Sunday Times of a Letter by Graves and Riding: Our 'Modern' Poetry (2 pages)
Chez Metayer Rennes Brittany France restaurant eds. Riding Laura Laura Riding, Laura (1901-91) American poet. Laura Riding (née Reichenthal; then Laura Gottschalk). Graves Robert Robert Graves, Robert [1st person]. (1895-1985). Poet, novelist, essayist, critic, and author of his diary. eds. Hodge Alan Alan Hodge, Alan Oxford history graduate. Became close friends with LR & RG. First husband of Beryl Graves. CP & WG McIntyre Alfred R. McIntyre McIntyre, Alfred R. president of Little, Brown & Co. (publishers) eds. Reeves Joyce Joyce Reeves Reeves, Joyce Sister of James Reeves. AMG 287. Wyatt Honor Honor Wyatt, Honor Journalist. Arrived in Deyá fortuitously. Married to Gordon Glover...Son Julian. W.G. First acquainted with R.G. and L.R. early in 1934; returned to visit in 1935; continued friendship in England. eds (RPG 211). Beryl Pritchard, Beryl daughter of Harry and Amy Pritchard, R.G.'s second wife. Formerly married to Alan Hodge. Robert and Beryl had four children: William, Lucia, Juan and Tomas. eds Yeats W. B. Yeats Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) Major Irish poet. eds. Was on the island of Majorca December 1935. WG Graves Robert Graves, Robert Author of the diary. Graves Beryl A. Graves, Beryl A. Second wife of Robert Graves. Transcribed the diary entries and register of letters written (hereafter, logs) from a photocopy of the manuscript, and these 53 monthly MS Dos, ASCII files, dated 01/01/83 were sent to Chris Petter by The Robert Graves Trust on floppy disc in 1996. Goldschmidt Karl Goldschmidt, Karl Karl Goldschmidt, d.1995, who later changed his name to Kenneth Gay, was Robert Graves' and Laura Riding's personal secretary during the period when the diary was written. He later annotated another printout of the diary produced from the B.A. Graves transcript, which is at the Graves Trust Archives in St. John's Oxford. Notes by Karl Goldschmidt are denoted as KG. Shoichet Jillian Shoichet, Jillian Abstracts: responsible for researching and writing the abstracts for the whole diary Graves William Graves, William Son of Robert and Beryl Graves. Helped to identify names, places and titles in Deya (1935-1936) and with translations and other references in three ways. He left an annotated printout of the first six months of the diary in the Graves Trust Room at St. John's College, Oxford. He also sent Chris Petter an Excel file with a list identifying names and places, principally in the Majorcan sections of the diary, and a glossary of Spanish terms. Finally he has sent the editors answers in response to reference questions. Notes by William Graves are identified with the initials WG. Cassell and Company Ltd. Cassell Publishers of Robert Graves' Collected Poems [1938], and the novel Count Belisarius [1938]. A.S. Watt & Son, Ltd. Watt Watt, A.S. RG's literary agent: first mentioned in November, 1935; team includes: Alexander Strahan Watt, and W.P. Watt et al, who may have handled different aspects of Graves' extensive European publishing and distribution. The firm replaced Eric Pinker. K.G. When did Pinker go, and why? KG Little, Brown & Co. Little, Brown & Co. Little, Brown & Co. Publisher in Boston who agreed to take on LR's Dictionary of Related Meanings in 1938 eds. Editors Editors of the Graves Diary Project. Lives of Wives [prose] Riding, Laura London, Toronto, Melbourne & Sydney Cassell and Co. Ltd. A39 1939 Trojan Ending [dramatised version based on Laura Riding's book; later called Greeks and Trojans] Graves, Robert 1938-01 Dictionary [projected project; unfinished] Riding, Laura 1935 Year of Damage [novel] Hodge, Alan 1936-12 The Swiss Ghost [formerly The Kind Ghost] [novel] Graves, Robert/ Riding, Laura 1937-04-22 The Left Heresy in Literature and Life [the essay "Politics and Poetry" comprises the closing section of this book.(RPG 278) eds.] Kemp, Harry/ Riding, Laura/ others Riding, Laura London Methuen B29 1939 A Love Story [poem] No More Ghosts [1940] Graves, Robert London Faber & Faber A50 1939-02-04 Portrait of Little Jacob, A [poem: became "Dream of a Climber". See Complete Poems, Vol. II, pp. 133-34, 323-24 (note). DW] Graves, Robert 1939-02-15 Thieves, The [poem] No More Ghosts [1940] Graves, Robert London Faber & Faber A50 1939-02-19 Sunday Times [Sunday newspaper] London Hutchinson; Times Newspapers Time & Tide [political magazine (1920-1977) founded by Lady Margaret Rhondda. eds.] London Collected Poems [1938] Graves, Robert London, Toronto, Melbourne & Sydney Cassell and Co. Ltd A48 1938 Collected Poems [1938] Riding, Laura London, Toronto, Melbourne & Sydney Cassell and Co. Ltd A35 1938 Daily Mail [Newspaper] London, England 1896