Jan 1 1936 Wednesday
McCormacks to lunch. Are taking Casa Salerosa
on from January 15 for 2 months. Also visit from Madora & Magdalena & Francisquito who brought a present of a red pencil.
Karl has dysentery, is in bed.
Letters from David, Catherine, Sam.
No work today
Walk along road with Laura by (warm) moonlight.
Decided today to make patiocourtyard. KG dining room, bedroom above; open maids' room under the front door.
Carl had several hot bottles & hot manzanillacamomile. KG with mint.
Girls went to the BaileDance. KG.
Jan. 2, 1936 Wednesday
Thursday.
10th anniversary of first meeting Laura.
Sebastian transplanting peach tree from Ca'n Caballo
Carl better: fed him porridge.
To Posada to shut glass door: out rushed a cat.
Corrected & sent off Focus:
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Maisie
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Len & Jane
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2 |
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James
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2 |
Tom & Julie
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4 |
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Honor
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2 |
Isabel
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Gordon
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2 |
John & Lucie
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4 |
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Mary P
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Warm: no brassero"brasero": brazier. KG needed. Wind from S.
A poem in 6 versions —
Dialogue between Friends & Friend.
Albatros
C.the G.
Claudius the God
came.
The Old Café woman died.
Jan 3 Thursday Friday
Karl better: typing again.
Another version of Dialogue & work on Christmas poem.
Laura set me to work on EE
Ecclesiastical Habits: English; in accordance with introduction now being written by her.
Jan 4 Friday Sat.
Working on Ecc habits.
Also long letter to L.H. in answer to one of his.
To Morley, who is pleased with O.S.S.
To Arthur Barker asking for royalty statement.
Long complicated & hopeless discussions as to where to put new kitchen & new comedórdining room. WG.
Mild & windy.
Pesamos
Pésames
messages of condolence. eds at Old Café.
Could not sleep with moon & distant chasing of sheep by dogs.
Walpole LettersHorace Walpole. KG came.
Jan 5. Sunday
Finished Ecc habits.
Also went over part of Poets, checked, transcopied.
Also started commentations of L.H.'s stuff, as asked.
To village late, high wind made Laura's head ache so returned. L.H.i.e. typescript sent by Liddell Hart. eds again; late.
Narcissus out & first (local) anemone.
Jan 6.
Reyes
Twelfth Night. KG
Monday.
Going over L.H.'s typescript. wrote to him and got it ready to send off.
In afternoon to Junyers' saw their Breughel, & works by Picasso, & by Joän & Clotilde & stayed 3 hours.
Down in café talk with Castañer who will call.
Gelat in bed with granoboil. KG.
The Junyers gave us a Holbein engravingIt was only a print: a reproduction of an engraving cut out from the London Illustrated News. Was [eventually] given to Honor Wyatt who gave it to Julian Glover. WG of Sir Thomas Wyatt – the very one I had asked Honor to get.
Jan 7th Tuesday
To Soller & saw Rovira who gave me another regimen & if that fails will take x-ray of appendix. Karl also saw R. for his nose-bleedsboils, according to KG.
Letters from H.S., Arthurby, about money sent.
Wrote to children & to H.S. also to Jonathan.
To bed early.
Quarles' EmblemsFrancis Quarles; c.1632-35? KG came.
Jan 8 Wednesday.
L.H. pleased with my stuff.
Worked over my 1st part of Ecc. Habits.
Men came to put millstone at picaswashing troughs. KG. Miguel has various orders: two pictures to frame, bath rack, footrest, new porchadaporch roof. KG for kitchen.
McCormacks dallying between Salerosa & Siqui.
In afternoon to Margarita the Modista's
Eclipse of Moon: we saw it with just a thin edge showing, at 6.25 or so.
Gelat still in bed for a day or two.
Did some Welsh Ecc-Habits.
Jan 9 Thursday
To Palma
K.
L. & I. At Margarita Mateu's bought Mesquida curtains, long, yellow brown, – green damask hanging and some
pieces of silk and an ancient spoon & fork — and 6 watercolour pictures by Trajani of Mallorquin scenes eighteenth-century for 1600
p
pesetas
. Mulet nearly got them for his museum. They had been in Margarita's family for
for ages. (Also got 10,000 pts for G. to pass on.)
Paid
(Focus 275.) Bought Judgement of Solomon for 15pts.
Laura to dentist; ordered gold plate.
Tea with Sch & Str at Palma.
Bought yeast for G's granoboil. KG.
Found telegram from L.H. appreciating, & money
royalty accounts from A.B. & H.S.
Jan 10 Friday.
To Posada, where men are pointing the east wall.
Long letter to L.H. in answer to his criticism of my stuff.
Put up the Mallorquin pictures.
To village to see G. in bed; he is still in pain but interested in the Spanish political crisis.
Jan 11 Saturday
More to L.H. & sent him, revised, my typescript for retyping to conceal tampering with letters: gave him casting vote on certain indifferent points.
Really hot day: sea mist came up & blotted out village, but did not touch Canellun.
Did quarterly accounts: and a few odd letters.
What to do with porchadaporch roof. KG, which looks tilted from the road and not too good: perhaps trees.
Jan 12 Sunday
Great mist over sea – yesterday's Barcelona boat 5 hours late. Karl photographed it.*
Three notes to send to L.H. Working on Ecc Habits
2.
Spend half afternoon hanging up green brocade hanging in Mesquida & rearranging – but it didn't do – & putting everything back. (Sent brocade back to Margarita)
Bailedance. KG at Sala: crammed with people 14 cars outside, mostly from Soller. Such a jam that we played 66a card game. KG at Old Café.
Mist in village in evening, only touched Canellun slightly in afternoon.
* turned out well.
Jan 13 Monday
Mist rose over mountains bright blue over Son Gallard about 3 o'clock. Over Palma too but sun over the part on the sea-side of Valldemossa – according to Karl who went in to Palma & bought 2 boxof cigarettes? eds & 2 laurels for us for 120 pesetas. Brought my new passport.
Finished ECC Habits with great difficulty. Junyers to tea, full of esta biens
it's fine
& magnificos
magnificents
. I made cigarettes.
Laura read me her anger homily. Oh dear, Emmerich is here again & threatens to call.
Juan says bailedance. KG made 150 pts. which about covered expenses: but he & Marcus made about 100 pts. from the bar.
Stocks in full blossom.
Alfalfas came from Barceló's son-in-law.
Jan 14. Tuesday.
Began homily on Stealing.
Long letter from L.H. enclosing one from Cape which might have meant two things according to how much of the T.E. material he had seen: wrote a long letter to suit either two possible readings.
Alfalfas planted. McCormacks go into Salerosa tomorrow. Emmerich also came to tea.
Went (with McCormack) to supervise 'pointing' of Posada wall.
To Sala: Gelat better.
Stealing all evening: worked till 1 o'clock
Almond blossom at its best.
Oliphantsbooks by Mrs. Margaret Oliphant, English novelist 1828-1897. KG/eds came.
Emmerich very piano
It.(mus.): soft. eds about Germany
Miguel brought duck board for the picaswater troughs. KG.
Jan 15 Wednesday.
Stealing again: then went through biography typescript,for T.E. Lawrence to His Biographer(s)? eds making cuts. Another long letter to L.H. about it.
Juanhere refers to Gelat. eds brought laurel trees. Sebastian planted 2 apricots & 1 plum at Can Torrent which were original seedlings from kitchen refuse.
Stealing. Laura working at her Anger. McCormacks came & took off their things to Salerosa. To Hotel Costa d'Or for cigarettes (owe 6.50pts. there).
Got a Tailora birdie
. KG at 66card game. eds – my first – happens once in about 200 games. Laura has had 2; Karl 1.
Thursday Jan 16.
Laura's birthday
She sent a cable to Tom, and got a telegram from Schw & Str at Palma & a cake with mil felicidades1,000 good wishes. KG from Gelat and a visit from him & the Medora & Francisquito, & later Bernardo with a bottle of Benedettoliqueur. KG.
Ugly algarrobocarob tree. KG removed from Can Torrent.
Finished Stealing homily: now called Theft. Laura still on her Anger.
Cold wind.
San AntonioSt. Anthony KG's firesin the village. WG, which we didn't see.
66a card game KG – 54 games – to play ourselves stale.
Read OliphantsMrs. Margaret Oliphant, English novelist. eds: Beleaguered City through in bed.
Laura recalled her joke Do you know those people?
Yes, passing well.
Jan 17 Friday
San Antonio
St. Anthony's – blessing of domestic animals. KG
Thos Wyattprint eds framed. Mints from Julie.
Three drafts of Evening in the Saddle.
To Salerosa for a walk. Sunny day. Beasts being blessed by the
cura,
Francisquito, in costume, on Palonithe donkey. KG. Fires still smoking.
Laura finished Anger, too preoccupied for visitors (Juan & Anita)
I filled up gaps in carnation row.
T.E. biography at night: more cuts.
Jan18 Saturday.
To Posada: hung up Thos Wyatt print
rearranged f replaced furniture gave instructions to masons. (Juan Ferrer & Jaime, Margarita Modista's stepson)
Rosa came & was paid a/c of 268 pts.
Three drafts of Climate of Thought.
Clipped away dead wood of blackberries (very hot sun) & got badly scratched.
To village: heard on radio death of Kipling & illness of KingGeorge V. KG.
Laura in her new red house-dress with old brass buttons & white red-fringed shawl.
Jan 19 Sunday
Wrote blurb of T.E. bookis this T.E. Lawrence by His Friends? eds for Cape's Spring List.
To Salerosa – McCormacks out.
T.E. stuff: cutting & annotating.
Gelat & Valldemossa smith came to take measures for L's design of iron
balustrade for in front of the front door.
Karl went to doctor in Soller for eczemaboils, according to Karl. eds: returned reassured.
King reported ill. News of Kipling's death.
Stabilized breakfast at bread & oil & orange juice.
Jan 20 Monday San Sebastian
T.E. stuff; cutting,
Contract from Watt: signed. Wrote to Liddell Hart.
Proofs of O.S.S.
Did them all day until 11.30, after a visit to Sebastian for his fiestaname-day. KG with champagne, paloherb liqueur. KG & swiz swiss-roll with Mil Felicidades1,000 good wishes. KG.
Mrs Wyatt
was supposed to have come to lunch, but was told by her hotel that there was no 'bus. So we had chicken alone & Gelat came & said we must build new depositoreservoir. KG/WG at once.
Jan 21 Tuesday
King George's death.this is written in the left margin of diary ms. eds
Stayed in bed reading till lunch time, then lunch, then more proofs; just managed to get off two copies – of to U.S.A & England in
off in afternoon.
To McCormacks for supper.
No
brassero
brasero
brasier. WG or fire today.
Jan 22 Wednesday
Great mildness continues.
Palmawritten as heading in left margin. eds Very tiring day in Palma (went in with McCormacks, just L & I). Bought green silk (modern) for
a dress of Laura's, & iron knobs for a balustrade at the Fundicion Mallorquin. Lunch with Honor's mother at Grand Hotel. Bought canaries, one for us, one for Fábrica at 12 pts. each.
Returned at 5.
Laura began her tonic.
John's moonface picture framed & put in Mesquida.
Jan 23. Thursday
Answered a letter of L.H.'s, worked over typescript of Eng.Ecc.H.2 and started to finish the Welsh Ecc Habits.
Depositoreservoir. KG being filled.
Karl in great distress with his eczemaboils. KG.
Laura very tired – in bed in afternoon.
To Posada to see if plastering all right.
66card game. eds ended by a nervous ill-humour of Karl's.
Hot day.
First St Brigid Anenome.
Publication day of Progress of Stories & Natural Need.
Jan 24th Friday.
It hasn't rained for weeks and the beans & peas are dying. Nobody feeling well. Sun very hot & wind started up agian.
Richards sent proof corrections forwarded to U.S. & to F.F. Also, half the proofs of Lars Porsena: sent off. News that James & Mary Phillips are to be married at Easter.
Finished Welsh Ecc Habits.
With Gelat to see how almond trees have struck: nearly all have.
First review of Epilogue: in New Statesman: not a review, nasty & long.
Planted McC's St Brigid anemones in pots.
Wrote to James & to Mary.
Note on book-advertizing.for Book Advertising? eds
Jan 25 Saturday
Colder. First Freezia out. (
Camelia
Camellia
has been for weeks in bud on the point of flowering)
More about advertising.
rest of Proofs of Lars Porsena. Finished & sent off.
(
Laura writing lots of letters)
At 5 went to village met McCormacks who returned to supper & then we walked there & back at 10.30 in cool drizzly weather.
Jan 26 Sunday.
It rained hard in the night.
sent
Karl to Soller, with also a notefor Dr. Rovira? eds from me about treatment.
Finished advertisement notefor Advertising KG, eds..
To L.H. on points of procedure: & cheque to his typist, in answer to his of January 23 1936.
Reviews of Epilogue in Times & Spectator.
Read & checked L's Anger.
She, the first part of Antigua
I transcribed part of Poets
Very hot bath very late at night
Canary sings well: Nicholasthe tom-cat. KG pulled the cage down, but no damage.
Stocks in full bloom, also Narcissus.
Jan 27 Monday.
Honor's MotherMrs. Ann Wyatt. eds stopped for a drink in company with Mr Marsh & Mr Stone (Monte Carlo talk). (Karl's face eczema'd). They found it all so 'different'.
Fine day.
Planted seedling African marigolds & 'mimulos' (?)mimulus: both annual and perennial species. WG in front bed. Also Seb. planted lemon at Posada to obscure Rosa's view. Sebastian planted almond-trees at Posada 'about fifty years ago'.
Wrote to A.G.
Pruned rose trees.
Five rose trees from Barclona: three for Canellun, one for Posada, one for Can Torrent.
Went over English Ecc H, 1 &
2 with Laura, & over Welsh.
Jan 28th Tuesday.
King's Funeral
Finished going over Welsh Ecc H. with Laura: started
Stealing
homily with her.
Surprise called by long eulogy of P.of S. by Rebecca West in Sunday Times.
To Posada where men have finished plastering the wall. Sebastian has cavar'ddug. KG the garden there & planted rose.
Gave orders for cementing of path, using sea stones.
Copied out Welsh Ecc & part of T
Stealing for Karl to type.
In the evening went for a walk with K & L towards Can Mado, Nicholasthe tom-cat. KG walking with us all the way.
Karl wrote to Mitchell saying that he'd heard that he had been talking about him; & that if he was brooding on the idea of sharing his house, nothing doing; if just idle chatter cut him out.
Mitchell came in person with his reply that he would talk about him when where & how he liked.
Jan 29th Wednesday
Started work on
Latin & Greek schoolsfor Schools. eds.
Mrs Wyatt to lunch and afterwards took her to see Posada, where men are putting sea-stones in place on the path. By the time she left and we had sat about in cafés (and cut Mitchell)see enclosed letter from a David Mitchell this month: same person? eds
Sent Egypt Ex.Force book to L.H.
In late afternoon felt nervously tired: to bed with bottle. After supper worked at Schools again.
Jan 30 Thursday
Went over Laura's Anger with her, which was sent off to James.
Mr McCormack in bed with a cold, went to see him bringing him two books.
Very cold wind.
Everyone in village seems to have a cough.
More Schools: finishing Greek ones.
Jan 31 Friday
Schools again. Karl to Soller,to Dr. Rovira? eds returned looking human.
Gelat came and showed us a mysteriously anonymous circular letter sent to important people in the village about Mayor's duty to ask village to approve of Doctor's extra pay, & complaining of Dr's absence.
Juan put up garden light and new round press-room one. Letter from Vyvyan Richardswho taught LR & RG printing. KG: passages from new book relating to us – might he send us, to approve. Replied friendlily, please!
Hot day. Plenty of freezias for cutting. Gelat giving trees chemical manure.
Ca sa Salerosa
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
Literally the house of the happy one. House on the Palma side of the Deyá valley which RG & LR rented when they first arrived in Deyá in 1929 and in which they installed the Albion Press. This house was one that was often available to rent. WG During 1935 it was evidently rented by the McCormacks (See March 17, 1935) CP
Can Caballo
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
Schwarz' house. (Ca s'Cabalito. The house had a little bronze horse on the balustrade.) Three doors away from Canellun. WG
Posada, La
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
House on the Puig next to Deyá church. Originally part of the Es Molí property. It had been rented by the church for Sunday school. RG and LR bought it in February, 1935, to use as a guest house for their visitors. WG, eds.
Old Café
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
Run by Margarita the Butcher, and mainly consisted of a table outside the butcher shop. Most frequented by LR & RG until the Sala (Concordia) was built by Gelat. WG
Soller
Soller
Majorca
Sp
Town of some 10,000 inhabitants ten kilometers from Deyá. WG
Ca sa Siqui
Majorca
Sp
Near Ca'n Madó. 'The house of the water channel.' WG
Palma
Palma
Majorca
Sp
Capital and largest centre of Majorca.
Mesquida
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
The dining room in Canellun was called the Mesquida after a painting hanging in it. WG
Canellun
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
Laura Riding and Robert Graves' house. Also Canellun (private) road. WG, KG
Barcelona
Catalunya
Spain
Located on the Mediterranean coast. eds.
Concordia
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
Salón Concordia. Gelat's café. Variously refered to as the Sala or the Salón. The village youths had shares in it. It was later called the Salón Deportivo. WG
Son Gallard
Majorca
Spain
Last farmhouse on the road to Palma before entering the Valldemossa boundary. WG
Valldemossa
Valldemossa
Majorca
Sp
Village on the way to Palma. WG
Can Torrent
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
House next to Canellun also belonging to LR & RG. Built by Norman Cameron. WG
Hotel Costa d'Or
Llucalcari
Majorca
Sp
In Llucalcari. Went there for drinks and occasionally meals. It was the best hotel, the Fonda being rather basic. The Turismo was closed. WG
Fundicion Mallorquin
Palma
Majorca
Sp
the local foundry. eds
Grand Hotel
Palma
Majorca
Sp
Fábrica
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
Home of Juan (Gelat) and his wife, the Madora. K.G. The ground floor was a nave extended over the equivalent of two more lots. This originally was a factory with an oil press, a flour mill and a soap making machine all run by a steam engine. Gelat replaced steam by fuel-oil and installed an electricity generator. When he put in the turbine at Ca'n Madó he removed the machinery and built a Café in its place (the Sala Concordia). WG
Ca'n Madó
Majorca
Sp
Old flour mill, on the road to Palma, converted into a hydro-electric plant by Gelat. Laura bought him a generator. Part of the orchard was bought by LR & RG. WG
McCormack
Walter; Violet; Betty; Jennifer
McCormacks
McCormack, Walter & Violet
Tenants of Ca'n Torrent. Had two daughters: Jennifer, a dancer, & Betty. Continued their friendship with Robert and Laura in England. eds.
Marroig Más
Madora
Madora
Marroig Más, Madora
Gelat's wife. W.G. R.G. often spells her first name "Medora," and precedes it with "the." eds.
Marroig Más
Magdalena
Magdalena Marroig
Marroig Más, Magdalena
Gelat's daughter. Later married Marcos Colom. WG
Vives
Franciscito
Franciscito
Vives, Franciscito
Gelat's grandson W.G. Son of Anita, Gelat's daughter in Rennes. KG
Goldschmidt
Karl
Karl/Carl
Goldschmidt, Karl
Karl Goldschmidt, later Kenneth Gay: Graphic artist, friend and secretary of Robert Graves and Laura Riding since 1934. R. G. spells both as Carl and Karl.
Graves
David
David
Graves, David
R.G.'s second child [by Nancy Nicholson]. W.G. In RAF; killed in the war. The only one of Graves' children who might have become a poet had he lived. K.G., eds.
Nicholson
Catherine
Catherine
Nicholson, Catherine
Catherine Nicholson: (1922- ) third of four children of Robert Graves and Nancy Nicholson. eds.
Graves
Samuel
Sam
Graves, Samuel
R.G.'s youngest child by Nancy Nicholson. C.P.& WG
Riding
Laura
Laura
Riding, Laura
(1901-91) American poet. Laura Riding (née Reichenthal; then Laura Gottschalk).
Sebastian
Sebastian
Sebastian
Gardener getting on for 80. KG
Sommerville
Maisie
Maisie
Sommerville, Maisie
Head of BBC Education broadcasting department. Friend of R.G. and L.R. Arranged accomodation for them when they returned to London as exiles. W.G., eds.
Lye
Len
Len
Lye, Len
New Zealand painter, sculptor, and filmmaker whom LR & RG had met in London. He helped with the Seizin Press publications. WG; married to Jane Lye, son Bix. eds.
Lye
Jane
Jane
Lye, Jane
Married to New Zealand artist/ film-maker Len Lye; son Bix Lye. Friends with R.G. and L.R. Visited Graves and Riding in Majorca (1930), where Jane provided secretarial assistance. eds (RPG 138).
Reeves
James
James
Reeves, James
Schoolmaster, writer and Poet. Friend of Jacob Bronowski. W.G./ K.G.; m. to Mary Phillips; daughter Stella born June 14, 1938 eds.
Matthews
Thomas S.
Tom
Matthews, T.S.(Tom)
American journalist. Took sabbatical from TIME and arrived in Deyá in 1930. Involved from then on with L.R. and R.G. WG
Matthews
Julie
Julie
Matthews, Julie
Tom Matthews' wife. WG
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).
Mayers
Isabel
Isabel
Mayers, Isabel
Laura Riding's sister. Lived in L.A. WG
Glover
Gordon
Gordon
Glover, Gordon
Married to Honor Wyatt. WG
Aldridge
John Arthur Malcolm
Aldridge
Aldridge, John
(1905-1983), painter and close friend and collaborator. WG m. to Lucie Brown 1940 eds.
Brown
(Cecilia) Lucie (Leeds)
Lucie
Brown, Lucie
Married artist John Aldridge. eds.
Reeves nሐhillips
Mary
Mary
Phillips, Mary
Visitor. Typed most of I, Claudius. Later married James Reeves. WG
Liddell Hart
Basil
Liddell Hart
Liddell Hart, Capt. Basil
War-fare expert and friend of T.E. Lawrence. Collaborated with RG on a book of T.E.L'.s letters, published in 1938. See RPG p.231. WG & Eds.
Morley
Frank
Frank
Morley, Frank
With Faber and Faber. Involved with Old Soldier Sahib. WG
Junyers
Junyer, Sebastian and Junyer, Clothilde
Often referred to in the diary as "The Junyers," artists Sebastian and Clothilde Junyer spent their summers in Llucalcari. W.G., eds.
Junyer
Joän
Joän
Junyer, Joän
Nephew of Sebastian Junyer. Also a good painter. W.G.;
Deaf-mute Catalan painter, ex-pupil of Picasso's, who lived in his uncle's house in Lluch Alcari [Llucalcari]. K.G.; introduced Ward and Dorothy Hutchinson to RG & LR in 1935 eds.
Junyer
Clotilde
Clotilde
Junyer, Clotilde
Painter. Married to Sebastian. WG
Castañer
Castañer
? Owner of a large house in the Clot. Worked in Palma? WG
Marroig Más
Juan
Gelat
Más, Juan Marroig
Juan Marroig Mas, called Gelat: Landowner on Deyá and friend of Robert Graves and Laura Riding (L.R. & R.G.'s factotum. W.G.)
Glover
Julian
Julian
Glover, Julian
Honor & Gordon's baby. WG
Rovira
Dr. Rovira
Rovira, Dr.
His practice was in Soller and he was used as their MD once village doctor quarrelled with Gelat. eds.
Barker
Arthur
A.B.
Arthurby
Barker, Arthur
Owner and director of Arthur Barker Ltd., the English publisher of I, Claudius and Claudius the God. Arthurby was L.R.'s nickname for him.
Miguel
Miguel
Miguel
One of four village carpenters. Others were Miguel Junior, Francisco and Antonio de Ca's Pintat. WG
Margarita
Margarita Modista
Margarita Modista
Modista: Dress maker (in Deyá). W.G., eds.
Mateu
Margarita
Margarita Mateu
Mateu, Margarita
Antique dealer, mostly jewellery, in Palma. WG
Schwarz
Georg
Swartz
Schwarz, Georg
German Jew. Deyá neighbour. Antique dealer. Lived with Frau Emmy Strenge, his house keeper, in Can Caballo some hundred yards from Canellun. RG and LR translated his "Almost Forgotten Germany." WG
Strenge
Emmi
Strenge
Strenge, Frau Emmi
Schwarz's house keeper and ? mistress. WG
Emmerich
Frau Emmerich; "Jämmerlich"
Emmerich, Frau
German painter, from Magdeburg, resident in Deyá. Invariably referred to with the prefix "Frau". K.G./ WG
Mas
Juan Marroig
Juan
Mas, Juan Marroig
Usually refers to Gelat's son, sometimes to Gelat himself. WG
Marcos
Colom, Marcos
Son of Bernardo Colom (landowner in Deyá); son-in-law to Gelat. eds
Barceló
General Barceló
Barceló, General
Spent summers at Son Bauzá. WG
Lawrence
T.E.
T.E.
Lawrence, T. E.
'Lawrence of Arabia.' Met Robert in Oxford in the early twenties. Made Robert his biographer and had him write "Lawrence and the Arabs." WG
Colom
Bernardo
Bernardo
Colom, Bernardo
Ex Cuban, previous owner of 'Son Canals', and former owner of 'Luna land' (on the other side of the road) cf. Married to a Cuban lady. Sons: Marcos (married to Gelat's daughter Magdalena) and Pancho. KG & WG
Jordi
Cura
Jordi, Don
Don Jordi, the Priest. WG
Mas
Anita
Anita
Mas, Anita
Gelat's daughter-in-law, married to Juan Mas. WG
Ferrer
Juan
Juan Ferrer
Ferrer, Juan
married to Magdalena Ferrer, the butcher; does masonry work at the Posada eds.
Rosa
Rosa
Rosa
Dress maker. Also made cushions, seat covers, etc. WG
Rudyard Kipling
Kipling, Rudyard
British poet (1865-1936). eds.
King George V
George V, King
King George V of England. Reigned 1910-1936. Succeeded by his eldest son Edward VIII who abdicated that same year in order to marry Wallis Simpson. Another son became King George VI. eds.
Wyatt
Ann
Mrs. Wyatt
Wyatt, Ann
Honour Wyatt's mother. eds.
Richards
Frank
Richards
Richards, Frank
Author of Old Soldiers Never Die and Old Soldier Sahib which R.G. rewrote for him. Was in The Royal Welch Fusiliers, R.G.'s regiment. eds.; Birth name is Francis Phillip Woodruff eds. see Diary September 27, 1936
Graves
Amy
A.G. (A.E.S.G)
Graves, Amy
Amy Graves, RG's Mother. WG
West
Rebecca
Rebecca West
West, Rebecca
(1892-1983) Met RG and LR in London, October 1936. RPG 257.; son with H.G. Wells, Anthony "Panther" West; later married to banker Henry Maxwell Andrews KG;
Mitchell
David
Mitchell
Mitchell, David M.
Staying at the Hotel in LluchAlcari, Majorca. Sent unwelcome letter to RG. See diary enclosure: Gr01-0347-03, and reference in diary entry for Feb. 3rd, 1936. eds
Vives
Antonio
Médico
Vives, Antonio Dr.
The village doctor (Deyá). At odds with Gelat (water rights controversy). His brother, Juan Vives, was Gelat's son-in-law. WG
Richards
Vyvyan
Vyvyan
Richards, Vyvyan
Old friend of T.E. Lawrence who owned a private press and helped RG and LR set up their own in Hammersmith (RPG pp.62-3) eds.
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.
Petter
Chris G.
Petter, Chris G.
Project manager of text encoding and annotation.
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.
Albatross Modern Continental Library
Albatross
Albatross
pub'd by British John Holroy-Rece and German Kurt Enoch eds.; German pocket-books K.G.
Arthur Barker Ltd.
Barker
Arthur
A.B.
Barker, Arthur
The English publisher of I, Claudius and Claudius the God. WG
Harrison Smith and Robert Haas
Harrison Smith
R.G.'s American publisher for I, Claudius and Claudius the God. eds.
Jonathan Cape Ltd.
Cape
Jonathan
Cape
Jonathan Cape
London publisher of Lawrence and the Arabs, Good-Bye to All That, No Decency Left, etc. eds.
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
Faber & Faber
Faber
Publishers of Old Soldier Sahib and Old Soldiers Never Die. WG
Editors
Editors of the Graves Diary Project.
Focus I, II, III, IV [newsletter]
Riding, Laura
Deyá
Seizin
1935
Dialogue Between Friends and Friend [poem: unpublished?]
Graves, Robert
1936
Claudius the God
Graves, Robert
London
Arthur Barker
A43
1934
Christmas [poem; called "Robert: Christmas"]
Focus IV
Graves, Robert
[private]
18-19
C291.3
1935-11-22
English Ecclesiastical Habits [prose]
Graves, Robert
Riding, Laura
1936
Old Soldier Sahib
Richards, Frank
Graves, Robert
London, New York
Faber & Faber; Harrison Smith & Robert Haas
A44
1936
Poets [prose]
Graves, Robert/ Riding Laura
Riding, Laura
Welsh Ecclesiastical Habits [prose]
Graves, Robert
Riding, Laura
1936
English Ecclesiastical Habits 2 [prose]
Graves, Robert
Riding, Laura
1936
Anger [a homiletic study]
Epilogue II
Riding, Laura
Deyá and London
Seizin and Constable
B24
1936
Stealing [a homiletic study: later titled Theft]
Epilogue II, 1936
Graves, Robert
Riding, Laura
Deyá and London
Seizin and Constable
B24
1936
T.E. Lawrence to His Biographer
Lawrence, T.E.
Graves, Robert
New York
Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc.
A49
1938
Evening in the Saddle [poem: became Enemy in the Saddle, which RG scrapped: see entry for Apr. 3, 1936]
Graves, Robert
1936
Climate of Thought [poem]
Collected Poems [1938]
Graves, Robert
Cassell
London
1938
T.E. Lawrence by His Friends
Graves, Robert [contributor]
Lawrence, A.W.
London
Jonathan Cape
B26
1937-05
Progress of Stories
Riding, Laura
Deyá & London
Seizin & Constable
1935
A Natural Need [James' Poems?]
Reeves, James
Deyá & London
Seizin & Constable
1935
Lars Porsena or The Future of Swearing and Improper Language [2nd rev. edition]
Graves, Robert
London
Kegan Paul
A21c
1936
Epilogue I: A Critical Summary
Riding. Laura/ Graves, Robert
Deyá & London
Seizin & Constable
B22
1935
New Statesman and Nation, The [originally:The Statesman]
London
1913-
Book Advertising
Epilogue III
Robert Graves
Laura Riding
Deyá & London
Seizin & Constable
239 - 246
B25
1937
Advertising [includes four articles]
Riding, Laura/ Graves, Robert/ Goldschmidt, Karl/ Cameron, Norman
Riding, Laura; Graves, Robert (Associate Editor)
Deyá & London
Seizin & Constable
230-258
B25
1937
Times [newspaper]
London
Times Newspapers
Spectator
London
F.C. Westley
1828-
Antigua Penny Puce
Graves, Robert
Deyá & London
Seizin & Constable
A46
1936
Sunday Times [Sunday newspaper]
London
Hutchinson; Times Newspapers
Schools [an international survey of education]
Graves, Robert; Riding, Laura
Riding, Laura