Wednesday Ap 1st
Hung up map of Spain. In the place of Deyá appears Palomera: this is a mistake. Jaime I11th-century Spanish king who defeated the Moors on Mallorca and ruled peacefully for several decades. eds landed at 'Palomera' near an island, probably Dragonera: so possibly Andraitx is intended: or Banalbufar.
Finished
Ch
chapter
XIV started XV (9
pp
pages
)of Antigua eds.
Harrison Smith want to distribute Seizin Books.
Fine day. Slight cold, first this year.
Dug out dahlias for replanting.
Bathed: water warm enough for it to be a pleasure.
Found narcissus growing wild in cracks of rock above small calacove K.G..
Laura dictating
Troy, etc K.G. to Karl in the Francisca room in the evening: To H-S. & Constable.
Went to bed feeling not too good.
Thursday Ap 2
Heavy head.
Publication date of O.S.S. in England: 6th in U.S.A.
Yellow tulip out.
Planted dahlias.
Heavy boiratic day: no sun.
To sea again, recovered pin tie-pin I left on the rocks yesterday: wrote 9
pp
pages
finishing Chapter XVof Antigua eds.. Only two more, it looks like.
Wrote to John G. about help promised for Antigua.
Another camelia out. Marguerite bush in full flower.
Refused to pay bill from Sabater, via Estanco
, for 252 pesetas for letter paper.
Seeds coming up. Nice letter from David.
GardenStone tables still lying about, and depositoresevoir K.G. beginnings in a forlorn mess waiting for political activity as a result of the Ap.12 elections.
Checked Poetry & Philosophy for Laura.
Epilogue almost ready.
Winter probably over now: no fires since March 9th or so.
All the same had fire this evening to keep off the damp. Gelat came and Medora. Apparently water-appeal is being withdrawn. Gelat is going to be Mayor and the Rights will withdraw. Gelat has a 'collar' for the Señormaster, or owner eds. of Sa Pedrissa, having looked at his
'contribution' – can make him pay 2000 pesetas for his land, 5 years back in arrears. If the Dr wants to go to Palma he must ask Gelat for permission then...Sweated out cold with
Cafiaspirin
Cafiapirina
, rum, hot orange.
Ap 3. Friday.
Boirà.
Heavy cold, but only in head.
Got up late.
Gelat will not pursue the matter of the Dr's medicines so as not to get the Secretario
complicated
implicated
. Pedrissa, Son Bauza, & Boy will even if they make this arreglodeal K.G. have to apply to G for special water.
Checked Laziness. 4 pages
of Chapter XVI, Antigua.
Laura went over my poems, chose 3 for Epilogue. Scrapped Enemy in Saddle, Receipt for Moneys and
No One Can Guess. (Others all right for book publication) Did a little work on the 3 for Epilogue. Helped Laura choose hers.
L.H. reports complications about the book: Savage behind committee.
Biog.
Biography
material all right, but letters objected to. Wrote to him. Will have to compromise, rather than not publish.
Found much more Epilogue than we had expected. Already half way to the next issue.
Ap 4 Saturday.
Felt better.
Windy day: sun.
Went over Stealing once more. Epilogue will be ready by tomorrow.
8
pp
pages
of Epilogue.
Ch
chapter
16
Antigua eds..
Elections are postponed because of
Soc
Socialist
Republican disagreements with Communists. But there withll be an Ayuntamento GestoraTownhall Administration K.G. of G's party anyhow.
Medico, frightened, eats dirt before Ques & Castaner. Retires from politics, tries to arrange that G shall not be alcaldemayor K.G., for the family's sake.
Alicecat eds. had mixed kittens in the press-room basket. Ali
Laura left her a black one.
Another tailor refers to card game "66" eds..
Ap 5 Sunday
Hot day
6
pp
pages
of Ant.(Chapter 16)
Went over Epilogue with Laura all afternoon and completed it.
Good reviews of O.S.S.
Real Thos WyattMedici print KG; i.e.not the Illustrated London News reproduction of a Wyatt engraving mentioned in January? eds came.
Sch & Strenge to supper.
Ap Monday 6
Palma at 11.
Wasted a lot of time
Pedro, Catalina; Anita, Magdalena.
Fiesta of Ramos
Easter K.G.. Bought fine work basket 8 pesetas. wooden shaving bowl, 2.50
pts
pesetas
. Pensión at Grand Hotel. Saw French film
Variété
1925 eds.(acrobatics & jealousy).
Slept badly owing to French couple honeymooning actively between 1 and 2.15. No word spoken, only activity & eructations.
Then cocks, trams
& hammering next
door.
EPiLOGUE II went off.
Palma
Ap Monday
Tuesday 7
Yesterday At the FeriaEaster Fair K.G. a 10 centimo fortune-telling apparatus prophesied a small inheritance.
I had never had one before & today it came: 1/70th residuary legatee of my paternal grandfather's estate
trust fund for my Aunt Lily (born 1810 - died 1899) —
£18.7
s
shillings
0.
Very tired.
Drew pension; bought Laura old diamond and small-sapphire ring for 150
p
pesetas
.
Laura dictated letters to Karl. I went to Casas. Nothing.
She bought me white socks & shoes. I bought myself black shoes.
Visited pottery factory bought pots & under-pieces.
Victorian dinner service of 61 pieces at Margarita Mateu's for 100 pesetas.
In the evening saw the worst film ever filmed. Vanessa1935 eds.: a Hugh Walpole story with Robert Montgomery & Helen Hayes.
Ap 8
Wedneday
Wednesday
Laura engaged Antonia a girl from Arta: to come tomorrow for a week on trial. Bought new Remington portable typewriter for 550 pesetas, got 150 pesetas back on other.
Laura makes Sabater admit sending in a 257 peseta bill twice.
Slept better last night. Bought things at Gordiolaglass shop K.G. crazy vase for 16
pes
pesetas
, 6 tumblers, etc.
Went to the antique-shop behind Cathedral. Bought
2 |
Bristol blue vases |
20 |
1 |
fruit stand with old mauve top |
10 |
1 |
white & gold jug |
10 |
1 |
old pink skirt |
5 |
2 |
pieces embroidery |
2 |
1 |
flower vase |
4 |
1 |
lustre mug |
8 |
1 |
Goya pink & blue mug |
15 |
1 |
tiny bluegrey mug |
1 |
1 |
white barrel jug |
5 |
2 |
lustre candlesticks |
15 |
1 |
cruet |
10
|
|
|
for 100
p.
pesetas
|
Gelat busy: arranged that Ayuntamientolocal administration K.G. will resign. Water business: 'Boy' won't sign, but will probably. Road: he is summoned to Madrid to declare again. Quiet lunch at Lena's.
Back at 6. Hotel bill 160 pesetasfor three people K.G.. In all spent about 1100 pesetas.
Ap 9 Thursday.
Boirà on hills.
Arranged new purchases in the house.
Did two pages of Ant. couldn't work.
Put pots into the patiocourtyard K.G.. One box-tree is badly withered by the sea airs. One laurel is dead.
The new maid did not turn up.
Reorganized my window ledge and table.
Loquats ripe.
Went to bed early not feeling well. read Murder of the Only Witness
Murder of the Only Witness(1933) by J. S. Fletcher eds..
Walnut trees in leaf.
Ap 10 Friday (Good Friday)
Rained in the morning a bit.
Heavy day. Bad head.
Laura & I did
Seizin List.
Fuller wrote a long letter about Ant. which I answered.
Morley says O.S.S. is going well.
To the sea with SolomonGraves' dog eds.. Did not bathe.
Laura back in her summer workroom.
(To bed early)
The Doctor is ill: to avoid going to Palma to see Ques.
Made out Income tax refund claim.
Gelat & Pedro came late: asking for a note to Hillgarth for him to write a note to the War Minister
Carlos Masquelet Lacaci eds. about L & me. Wrote it. They are going to Madrid on Wednesday.
Ap 11 Sat.
A bit better. Heavy windless rain.
Finished Chapter XVIof Antigua. eds 8 pages.
Wrote to Roz & Sam. Later: Wrote 10 pages of
Chapter
XVII
Carmine tulip out. No-me-verras-sin-sols
nunca-me-verás-sin-sols"you-won't-see-me-without-the-sun" K.G. & Marguerites at their best. Anemones still flowering well, Garden roses out now and a few car summer carnations (yellow, & lilac). We have had climbing roses from the olive-tree bushes for some weeks.
Dummy & production estimate for Convalescent Conversations & for Almost Forgotten Germany.
Ap 12 Easter Sunday
Lovely day.
10
pp
pages
finishing Chapter XVII and 2 of Chapter XVIIIof Antigua eds. which is the last probably.
Jorrocks' Jaunts
Jorrick's Jaunts & Jollities (1928) by Robert Smith Surtees eds. came, & Ferrier's novels.
Excellent press for Old S.S. Still 66card game eds. every day. I have made the last 4 tailorsrefers to card game eds.. Karl failed once.
Laura starts Troy again.
Bernado's wife gave us 24 eggs as an Easter gift.
Bathed: water quite warm.
Wrote to Honor.
Ap 13 Easter Monday.
Finished Antigua first go over.
Took pot of anemones to the Bernardos & another to Maria Font Fresc.
In the
village some Islip people brought a message from Mr Neale.
Two consejalescouncillors K.G. won't resign in spite of the Medico's & Pedro Canpusevé's pleas.
Hillgarth is writing to Masqualet.
Going over Ant. (first three chapters).
Apparently cured but shall go onwith medicine K.G. for another fortnight.
Read Honor's Chapter VII.
Ap 14. Day of the Republic Tuesday
Long letter to A.G.
Put things away in attic – books.
Antigua, various parts of it.
Sunless day. Wind.
Took Henry Wiatt Thomas Wyatt K.G.; see April 5 eds. to be framed in moreymulberry-wood K.G..
Laura not well, went to bed.
I fell asleep on my sofa in the afternoon.
SmithBlacksmith K.G. came again to ask about design of the bannisters – now nearly done.
Ap 15 Wednesday
Strong bad wind.
Added to
Chap
Chapter
11 for Antigua: for Karl to type. It will amount to 70,000words K.G..
The Parish Council divided: two of them refuse to resign, still. So nobody resigns.
Forms for refund of U.S. income tax came.
Pedro, Catalina & the Tia Maria of San Corté said goodbye.
Have reached
p
page
84 in the going on.
Ap 16 Thursday
Antigua.
At 1 o clock went to Palma and saw Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times(Painful.) With Str & Schw & Karl.
Sawardconsular employee? K.G. 'notarized' my income tax claims for U.S.
Laura bought herself a fountain pen & me two new ties.
This was the day that HecatataHecate K.G.
the black cat with white markings on her chest (who never would have anything to do with us) was badly wounded (by Alicecat eds.?)and had to be shot by a cousin of Antonia's. Buried by me near the bridge.
Ap 17th Friday.
Dreadfully cold wind.
Laura gave me her old Parker DuophoneDuofold K.G. with which I write this. The nib has been damaged slightly but it
is isn't
isn't
bad. Mended the nib, but spoilt the valve.
Gelat is going to Madrid tomorrow. Monday week the ayuntamientotown council K.G. will be removed if it does not previously resign. Yesterday it was going to be molestaredinconvenienced eds. – called to account for irregularities – but the Civil Governor had a row at the Desfileparade K.G. on the Day of the Republica about the presence of a canonicoclergyman K.G. on the balcony. Probably then today.
A wire has just come for the Mayor from Palma. Gelat related all this & then we went to Can Mado via the Piñets, and had a sobrasadasausages K.G. & wine & bread & olives meal at the Fabrica.
Madora with face inflamed by
toothe ache
toothache
.
Passed a marvellous picnic party coming from the sea. Werner, Broadwood niece, Proxy sister, Abelin, Butifara? KG painter, Herpes, the Pansy. (Jammerlich
Jämmerlich is the German for miserable
: K.G. suggests Graves is referring to Frau Emmerich. K.G./eds. & the Krasniks had not attended owing to internal dissensions)
Sat. Ap 18th.
Cold wind. Gelat did not go to Madrid because of general strike there (on account of
fascist activities not properly controlled) and bad sea. Yesterday's wire was a round up of Fascists.
Worked over First Trial chapter (XII)of Antigua eds. in the light of Fuller's legal advice.
Went down to sea. Hot in the sun.
(Pedro and Catalina still in Palma)
First Sweet Williams out at Can Torrent; and yellow carnations.
Margarita told Str.
Canellun doesn't always come here: that's only natural. They have half-share in the Sala café. But they always buy meat.
So we visited her this afternoon & had beer,
whisky
whiskey
& soda, coffee etc – Krasniks disgusted to find us in their café. Abelin & Werner outcast because
suspected of denouncing Krasnik and Leman (in Austria & Germany), but still have Ickes and the Proxies as friends.
Sunday Ap 19.
Cold still.
We had a fire last night in the Mesquida.
Thomas
Wiatt
Wyatt
framed.
Finished the trial chapterof Antigua eds. (31
pp
pages
) but too messy for typing yet.
Cleaned it up late at night.
There was a slight trouble with the light at Can Mado so they put on the jolty motor at the Fabrica.
First Midges this year.
Monday Ap 20.
Today I consider A.P.P. finished apart from
obvious jacking-up & corrections. And today I am stopping my medicine, as cured at last — 5 months.
Broke the
Wiatt
Wyatt
glass so took it again to Miguel whom I took to the Posada for measurements of lavatory seat, lavatory door, well-head beams.
Gelat went to Madrid today.
Because of working by bad light last night couldn't do much today; but cleared away necessary letters.
Tuesday Ap 21.
Going word by word through Ant (first 42
pp
pages
) for discrepencies. Carl typed
Ch
Chapter
11, & I went through that too.
At 12
o'c
o'clock
Marjorie Launder & Alan Bartlett turned up from Soller, friends of James: she a schoolmistress, he an official at the Ministry of Agriculture. They stopped to lunch. Afterwards to the Posada & finding the church open, L. K, & they went in (she borrowed my hat). I stayed outside with SolomonGraves' dog eds.. The cura showing off before two nuns said: Eso es intolerable. Que salgen. No pueden entrar en este edificio sin mi permiso.
This is intolerable. Let them leave. They may not enter this building without my permission.
K.G.
Laura wrote a letter to the Fomento de TurismoPalma Tourist Office K.G., with the other three as witnesses, to complain.
Letters from Constable to Laura about H.S. business – want to deal themselves at 5% commission. And theatrical letter from Gordon. And from Yeats asking for Laura's poems: perhaps she will refuse as 'her 'husband' had already done.
Warmer: a little rain.
Wednesday. Ap 22
Working over Ant. all day. To the sea, but did not bathe: without SolomonGraves' dog eds. for a change. Several Four different sorts of orchid seen.
Laura wrote letter to Fomento de TurismoPalma Tourist Office K.G. about the Cura: on a blank signed by Bartlett & Launder.
New moon for money.K.G. adds Bowed to...
. eds
Heavy weather.
Ap 23rd Thursday.
Sam & David write to say they are coming in the summer. Sam sends ship picture. Wrote to A.G. and to L.H.
Ant. slowly. Have got to
p
page
143, jacking-up all the time.
Laura has bad throat still: went to bed early with it.
Wire from Gelat from Madrid: 'Todo va bien'
All goes well
K.G.. Laura's denunciacomplaint K.G. of the Cura forwarded to AzañaRepublican Cabinet Minister in Madrid K.G..
Laura has chill from not going to bed after a late hot bath on Tuesday.
Reading Letters of Susan Ferrier
Memoirs and Correspondence of Susan Ferrier 1782-1854 by S. Ferrier, John Andrew, and John Ferrier (1898).
Gave Schw a Can Pabo Rose, from the Posada
,.
Ap 24th Friday.
Working over Antigua, Karl typing 'insertions' me inserting them.
* Sent off Trial chapterof Antigua eds. & letter to W. Fuller.
Hot day.
Tom has reviewed O.S.S. well in Time.
The pansy-geranium from Miguel fetched & planted.
The first strawberry.
Wild cyclamen first noticed.
Ap 25 Saturday.
Lovely day.
First white climbing roses.
First passion flower.
The anemones still go on.
Antigua gone over as far as
p
page
176 and all insertions gummed in. Will probably reach 270
pp
pages
or more.
To sea, but did not bathe. The last two days too rough, today too sea-weedy.
Marjorie & Allan came to the Fonda from Soller. We had supper there & afterwards saw a 1910 (?) Chaplin film, about motor races.
SolomonGraves' dog eds. now keeps faithfully to heel all the time.
Laura started actually writing 'Troy' again. She is bad with throat still but continues to smoke and won't see a Doctor.
Ap 26 Sunday. Presidential elections. (Centre &
R
Right
withdraw)
Have jacked up Antigua (making a table of dates) as far as Chapter XIV. Now transcopying, to have a spare copy. Have done 3 chapters.
No letters, these days.
Hot.
To sea, but somehow didn't feel like bathing.
Punch in the evening with Str & Schw. Alan and Marjorie & Karl. Punch had wild strawberries in, and superior champagne.
A. & M. had nothing to say for themselves.
Lefts of Deyá polled 96 votes
Ap 27 Monday.
Antigua – jacking up Chapter XV & transcopying Chapter 4, 5 and 6.
Whole batch of excellent O.S.S. reviews.
Wrote to Richards. Walked down the valley, up by Son Bauza.
Gelat returned. Had seen the expedienteproceedings K.G. & defended himself to Masquelet, who gave him a solemn assurance that all was well. In the expediente report, derived from the expedienteproceedings K.G., lies and omissions which Gelat and his lawyer answered. G. & L. both vaguely accused of nefarious
antecedents. There is some Palma Staff-Colonel who has done this. G. also got proceedings against carabineroscoast guards K.G. dropped.
He brought us a fine leash (vellum halfthalter eds.) for SolomonGraves' dog eds..
Tea with M. and A. at Can Torrent.
Masquelet will pass through Deyá one of these days.
Honor wrote to Mrs Glover
Gordon Glover's mother? eds saying that if she was there, she'd slap her face.
Ap 28 Tuesday.
Antigua Jacked up
Ch
Chapter
.16 (dividing old
Ch
Chapter
16 into 2) and transcopied
ch
Chapter
7.
Haircut, found my lost brown scarf there.
Cold day. (No rain yet. Yesterday
is
it
sprinkled) but sun. No midges.
Blackberries spreading dangerously: sending some plants to Str & Schw.
£160, surprisingly, from Germany.
Maria Murciana cleaning Posada.
Laura a bit better.
To sea (rough & dirty), brought M & A back to tea, showing them rare wildflowers in the Vinyet.
Transcopied
ch
Chapter
7. went over typing of 14 13.of Antigua eds.
A & M came to coffee and said goodbye. Come next summer
"I'm afraid we'll not be able to afford it. By next summer we'll have children I hope."
Ap 29th. Wednesday.
Laura wrote firmly in reply to an flattering insolent letter of Yeats about anthologies.
Antigua. Transcopied
Chs
Chapters
9 and 10 and 11. and jacked up XVII (new style).
To Posada, which is being cleaned.
Heavy weather.
Agreed to have picnic with the Fabrica on Friday (May Day).
Went over typing of
Ch.
Chapter
14. Wrote draft of foreword.
Strenge told us long & dreadful story of Emmerich's punch party. (Emmerich's stinginess and greed, & the niece feeding Krasnik's dog on sly with cake, & pointing out that E. was getting all the best things to eat.)
Dahlias sprouting.
Thursday Ap. 30th
The Water AudienciaHearing K.G.
No audienciahearing K.G. after all. It has been postponed until June because of Fascist trials (son of Son Morages in jail) & may fail then. Only Boy and the Señormaster, or owner eds. of Pedrissa are still in and the latter comes from France next week.
Dealt myself a tailorrefers to cardgame "66" eds. last night.
We are having fires in the evening.
A close day. There'll be no fruit this year worth mentioning.
Finished jacking-up Antigua. Now only Laura's & Bill Fuller's corrections.
Sebastian took out tulips, which are now over.
Strong letter to Ivor Nicholson about my inclusion in the cigarette cards series of 'Celebrated Living Authors'.
Henry WiattSir Thomas Wyatt K.G. see April 5 eds. returned. Miguel senior put in gauze-frames at Can Torrent.
Deyá
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
Town located on the northwest coast of Majorca, on the hillside between the Teix Mountains and the sea: this was RG's home with Laura Riding from 1929 to 1936. He returned there with his family after WW II. Eds.
Palomera
Palomera
Majorca
Spain
R.G. observes that Jaime I landed at Palomera.
Diary, April 1, 1936.
Sa Dragonera
Majorca
Spain
A dragon-shaped island off the western tip of Majorca. eds.
Andraitx
Andraitx
Majorca
Spain
Also spelt Andratx.
A village just inland from the western tip of Majorca; there is also a Port d'Andratx right on the coast. eds.
Bañalbufar
Bañalbufar
Majorca
Sp
Another village on the north west coast of the island. WG; famous for its tomatoes. KG
Francisca Room
Canellun, Deyá
Mallorca
Spain
Designated by Laura Riding for a little Mallorquin girl named Francisca, about whom Laura also wrote the poem Laura and Francisca
R.P.G.
Pedrissa, Sa
Majorca
Sp
Farm on the way to Valldemossa. WG
Palma
Palma
Majorca
Sp
Capital and largest centre of Majorca.
Son Bauza
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
A large farm complex on the opposite side of the valley from Canellun. WG
Grand Hotel
Palma
Majorca
Sp
Arta
Majorca
Spain
a rural village located inland from the east coast of Majorca. eds.
Lena's Bar
Palma
Majorca
Sp
LR and RG sometimes ate here while in Palma on shopping or business trips. eds.
Islip
Islip
Oxfordshire
England
small village where Graves and Nancy Nicholson rented, then owned, a cottage named "The World's End" R.P.G.
Son Corté
Son Corté
Mallorca
Spain
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
Piñets, Es
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
Part of Es Molí estate purchased by RG & LR along with the Posada and part of Ca'n Madó. WG
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
Can Torrent
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
House next to Canellun also belonging to LR & RG. Built by Norman Cameron. WG
Canellun
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
Laura Riding and Robert Graves' house. Also Canellun (private) road. WG, KG
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
Mesquida
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
The dining room in Canellun was called the Mesquida after a painting hanging in it. 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.
Soller
Soller
Majorca
Sp
Town of some 10,000 inhabitants ten kilometers from Deyá. WG
Ca'n Pabó
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
House in which RG & LR lived while Canellun was being built, after they left Ca Sa Salerosa. WG
Fonda
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
Inn next to Margarita's Café. Occasionally ate there. WG
Vinyet
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
House belonging to Gelat overlooking the Cala. WG
Son Morages
Deyá
Majorca
Sp
The farm next to Son Canals where the Coloms lived. Son Canals and Son Morages have now been joined and are the 5 star LA RESIDENCIA hotel. WG
Riding
Laura
Laura
Riding, Laura
(1901-91) American poet. Laura Riding (née Reichenthal; then Laura Gottschalk).
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
John
John
Graves, John
R.G.'s brother. Visited R.G. & L.R. in 1934 with R.G.'s mother. WG
Sabater
Esperanza [?]
Sabater
Sabater
Printer in Palma who did work for R.G. & L.R. eds.
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.
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.)
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.
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
Boi
Sebastian
"Boi"
Boi, Sebastian
The "torpe." Slightly half witted. 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.
Savage
Savage
Savage
Arnie Lawrence's agent KG
Quesada
Américo
Ques.
Castro y Quesada, Américo
(1885-1972); Spanish philologist and cultural historian; Spanish ambassador to Berlin 1931-36 eds.
Castañer
Castañer
? Owner of a large house in the Clot. Worked 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
Pedro or Catalina
Tio/Don Pedro & Tia/Doña Catalina
Pedro or Catalina
Cousins of Gelat from Madrid; RG refers to them interchangeably as Don or Doña and Tio/a, meaning uncle or aunt eds.
Mas
Anita
Anita
Mas, Anita
Gelat's daughter-in-law, married to Juan Mas. WG
Marroig Más
Magdalena
Magdalena Marroig
Marroig Más, Magdalena
Gelat's daughter. Later married Marcos Colom. WG
Casas
Casas
Casas
Antique dealer in Palma. WG
Mateu
Margarita
Margarita Mateu
Mateu, Margarita
Antique dealer, mostly jewellery, in Palma. WG
Antonia
Antonia from Artá
Antonia
maid hired April 8, 1936 eds.
Fuller
William
Bill Fuller
Fuller, William
lawyer and researcher for Antigua Penny Puce KG; m. to Mary Fuller eds.
Morley
Frank
Frank
Morley, Frank
With Faber and Faber. Involved with Old Soldier Sahib. WG
Hillgarth
Hillgarth
Hillgarth
Consul? Ambasador? Foreign Office. W.G.; Palma Consul KG
Lacaci
Carlos Masquelet
Masquelet
Lacaci, Carlos Masquelet
Spanish Minister of War in the spring of 1936. See diary April 10, 13, 27 (1936). eds.
Cooper née Graves
Rosaleen
Ros
Cooper, Rosaleen Dr.
Dr. Rosaleen Cooper, R.G.'s sister. W.G.; husband Jim, sons Dan, Roger & Paul RPG.
Graves
Samuel
Sam
Graves, Samuel
R.G.'s youngest child by Nancy Nicholson. C.P.& WG
Ferrier
Susan
Ferrier
Ferrier, Susan
(1782-1854) eds.
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
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).
De sa Font Fresca
Maria
Maria de sa Font Fresca
De sa Font Fresca, Maria
Gelat's mistress (or one of them) C.P. & W.G. Sebastian the gardener's daughter (spells "Fresca" without the final "a"?) K.G.
Neale
Ernest
Ernest Neale
Neale, Ernest
of Islip post office R.G.
Canpusevé
Pedro
Pedro
Canpusevé, Pedro
Involved in the Deyá water rights dispute. eds.
Graves
Amy
A.G. (A.E.S.G)
Graves, Amy
Amy Graves, RG's Mother. WG
Werner
Werner
Werner, Fraulein
A member of the German community in Deyá? eds.
Broadwood
Jessie
Mrs. Broadwood
Broadwood, Mrs.
English widow. Lived near Son Bauzá with her cats. WG; known as "niña vieja," roughly: "mutton dressed up as lamb" KG
Macdonald
Proxy
Proxy
Macdonald, Proxy
Living in DeyǰHad a sister. eds.
Abelen
Peter
Abelin
Abelen, Peter
(1884-1962), German painter living in Deyá. K.G.; RG often misspells the name: Abelin eds.
Pepito
Pansy
Pepito de Can Jordi
Called "the Pansy," later known as Pep de Can Pelat, he was gay, and came from a good family in Palma who more or less exiled him to Deyá. He used to dress in drag, and was living with the German painter Leman. WG
Emmerich
Frau Emmerich; "Jämmerlich"
Emmerich, Frau
German painter, from Magdeburg, resident in Deyá. Invariably referred to with the prefix "Frau". K.G./ WG
Krassnigg
Reinhold
Krasnik
Krassnigg
Austrian Deyá resident. W.G. Austrian painter: his wife's name was Pauline. K.G.
Margarita
Margarita
Margarita (Café proprietor)
Proprietor of Café. Also Butcher. WG
Leman
Leman
Leman
German painter who lived in Deyá , & eventually died there, aged 102 K.G.
Ickes
Walter
Ickes
Ickes, Walter
German painter, who married the Deyá school-mistress, & fathered a daughter by her. K.G.
Miguel
Miguel
Miguel
One of four village carpenters. Others were Miguel Junior, Francisco and Antonio de Ca's Pintat. WG
Launder
Marjorie
Marjorie
Launder, Marjorie
Schoolmistress; friend of James Reeves R.G.
Bartlett
Alan
Alan Bartlett
Bartlett
Official at Ministry of Agriculture; friend of James Reeves R.G.
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.
Jordi
Cura
Jordi, Don
Don Jordi, the Priest. WG
Glover
Gordon
Gordon
Glover, Gordon
Married to Honor Wyatt. WG
Yeats
W. B.
Yeats
Yeats, William Butler
(1865-1939) Major Irish poet. eds. Was on the island of Majorca December 1935. WG
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
Connolly
Cyril
Cyril Connolly
Connolly, Cyril
A reviewer of L.R.'s Progress of Stories; editor of Horizon [magazine?] 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
Murciana
Maria
Maria
Murciana, Maria
Member of a Murcian immigrant family [check]. WG
Sebastian
Sebastian
Sebastian
Gardener getting on for 80. KG
Nicholson
Ivor
Nicholson, Ivor
Author and publisher. Partner at Nicholson & Watson, London.
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.
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.
RP
G
RPG
Unidentified person; possibly a misspelling of Robert Percival Graves (whose initials on this project are [RG](#RG)).
Harrison Smith and Robert Haas
Harrison Smith
R.G.'s American publisher for I, Claudius and Claudius the God. eds.
Seizin Press
Seizin
Founded when Robert Graves and Laura Riding began their partnership in London. R.G. and L.R. continued to operate their own press in Deyá, but stopped printing in 1935. Seizin Press published a number of literary works in conjunction with Constable in London, including the Epilogue series, and other works by Laura Riding and their literary associates. eds
Constable & Co., Ltd.
Constable
Constable
Constable Publishers. Arranged with them to print and distribute Seizin Press Epilogue and books. WG
Estanco
Estanco
Local Tobacconist, a general shop KG
Fabrica
Gelat's household including: his wife, the Madora, his daughter Magdalena, son Juan and daughter-in-law Anita. Other relations often present were Francisquito, his grandson, and Francesquita, Anita's little sister R.G., eds.
Editors
Editors of the Graves Diary Project.
Antigua Penny Puce
Graves, Robert
Deyá & London
Seizin & Constable
A46
1936
Trojan Ending, A [novel]
Riding, Laura
Deyá & London
Seizin & Constable
1937
Old Soldier Sahib
Richards, Frank
Graves, Robert
London, New York
Faber & Faber; Harrison Smith & Robert Haas
A44
1936
Philosophy and Poetry
Epilogue II
Hodge, Alan and Riding, Laura
Riding, Laura
Deyá & London
Seizin & Constable
1936
Epilogue II
Riding, Laura & Graves, Robert
Deyá & London
Seizin & Constable
B24
1936
Laziness [A Homelitic Study]
Epilogue II
Hutchinson, Ward
Riding, Laura
Deyá & London
Seizin & Constable
1936
Evening in the Saddle [poem: became Enemy in the Saddle, which RG scrapped: see entry for Apr. 3, 1936]
Graves, Robert
1936
Receipt for Moneys [poem: also called Address to Customers. Was "scrapped" see diary Apr. 3, 1936]
Graves, Robert
No One Can Guess [poem: "scrapped": diary Apr. 3, 1936; but later became "X" (in Collected Poems 1938): see note. DW, eds.]
Robert Graves: Complete Poems, Vol. II
Graves, Robert
Beryl Graves and Dunstan Ward
Manchester
Carcanet Press
pp. 92-93
1995-1999
Stealing [a homiletic study: later titled Theft]
Epilogue II, 1936
Graves, Robert
Riding, Laura
Deyá and London
Seizin and Constable
B24
1936
Convalescent Conversations [fiction]
Madeleine Vara [Laura Riding]
Deyá & London
Seizin & Constable
1936
Almost Forgotten Germany [Almost Forgotten Times]
Schwarz, Georg
Trans. Graves, Robert/ Riding, Laura
Deyá & London
Seizin & Constable
A45
1936
Time [Magazine]
New York
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boira
Mist. WG