Diary entries for February, 1939

Feb 1 Wed.

I got up at 10 and got a car to the village to send off the packets by the 10.30 post.

Dictionary again

and a walk with Dorothy to the big lake, and checking last scenes of Greeks & Trojans with Laura.

Honor wants to come in a fortnight: has something in her mind it seems.

This was to have been another Crisis day: but it was postponed by Roosevelt making a speech of support for France & England at a secret meeting.

(Two days later: this is now denied.)

Feb 2 Thursday

Not feeling too good

Lunch in bed but then worked till until 3 am – Dictionary & checking Greeks & Trojans with Laura.

We had supper at Montauban, the five of us, and there was a new thing about an animal called the 'irk' who fed on modern architecture.

In the mirror as I lay in bed in the morning I saw a large bird with yellow back & wings fly into the cherry tree.

The first primroses in the avenue

Ros sent a Napoleonic flax-plant picture.see enclosure 12 January, 1939 eds.

Franco takes VichVic? Spain eds..

Feb 3 Friday

Very fine weather, ice on lake

* Worked very hard with checks & transcopying to help Laura get off Greeks & Trojans to Watt by afternoon's post.

A walk at night through the mist – full moon somewhere – with all of us at midnight to the station – nothing open there – and home to tea and anchovy-toast.

Feb 4 Saturday .

Same beautiful fine frosty weather: we go for a walk around the ~~lake~~ etangpond eds. every day, Bellamycat eds. following.

Laura working with Alan on Damage. Dictionary; & a special Dictionary session with Laura.

Started a poem about moon & frost A Love Story eds..

Russian billiards at the station with Alan & Beryl: fiery & impossible table.

Capture of GeronaSpain eds. by Franco forces.

Enclosure – Clipping from Time and Tide: Review of RG and LR's Collected Poems

Collected Poems

Enclosure – RG response to Time and Tide review of LR's Collected Poems

Laura Riding's Poetry p.1

Enclosure – RG response to Time and Tide review of LR's Collected Poems

Laura Riding's Poetry p.2

Enclosure – Letter from RG to Time and Tide

The Contemporary Dichotomy

Feb 5. Sunday

All day reading Year of Damage for Alan; for corrections. This is the final version (about ⅔ way) of what was once very loose & amusing, written winter 1936.

M mlle Perou & the Post Office girls came to call in the afternoon: overwhelming joke atmosphere of M mlle Perou. Laura gave her a cokernut cocnut when she went.

Laura going over Alan's Journeys.

* CatalansSpaniards from Catalonia eds. begin to retreat across frontier

Feb 6 Monday

We think of going to U.S.A. United States of America in spring, to stay in Pennsylvania for a few months near the Jacksons & Tom & Julie.

Dictionary with Alan checking & cross-copying the whole set of Dictionary material (Laura's) for Tom till until 3.15 am.

A walk to Montauban and back — first for a six weeks or a month or. Russian billiards as usual. Alan & I each win one game always.

Feb 7 Tuesday. *

Most of day on the poem A Love Story eds. started on Saturday.

Laura doing her Novel ~~article~~. study.not identified. eds.

Walked to Montauban with Beryl – Alan not well.

There are now 45 endorsers of the Protocol.

Laura's cricket has moved into the kitchen next door

Enclosure – Letter from RG to the Daily Mail

Robert Graves's Poems

Feb 8 Wednesday

* Woken up by a cable from McIntyre saying that all objections raised 'by so-called experts' now met.

Finished the poem, in 5 drafts – tentatively called A Love Story.

Dictionary with Alan, finishing Li.e. the letter 'L' eds., and a session with Laura & him on definitions of attributes.

Still lovely weather.

In the evening we went to Montauban to a drama of a stolen baby, a rich woman & a poor woman. It was a Church thing, so all the actors who were in a romantic relationship had to be relatives – (incestuous; L said) and the chief actors were the lame grocer, as a grandfather, M. Pinson's two clerks, the elder as the drunken husband, the younger as the villain. The heroine was the dressmaker the elder's clerk's wife, M me Huitre, who has in a real life (M me Perou & Beryl agree) a more sluttish household than the misèremisery eds. to which she was reduced in the play and revels in it. After we had 'grogs' at Hotel Ouest and M me Perou teased us for liking a little girl with platsplaits? i.e. braids eds. whom she thought rather 'wet'.

Feb 9 Thursday.

X Minorca captured

Went over the seven new poems since Collected Poems and made several changes.

Dictionary with Alan: resorting groups at a suggestion of Laura's.

Laura working concentratedly all day on a difficult poem: a lesson starting with stars.KG indicates that "A Lesson Starting With Stars" is the poem's title, but it has not been identified in Riding's published works. eds.

Honor explains her long silence: letter went astray and is having a baby in July in spite of recent miscarriage.

Laura finished poem at 2 am; and also an epitaph on Yeatsthe Epitaph was unpublished; see Friedmann 280 eds..

Feb 10 Friday.

(Death of Pope Pius XI)

Finished in two drafts a poem I started last night about Cats.became "Frightened Men". See Complete Poems, Vol. II, pp. 137, 324 (note and footnote). DW; eds.

Dictionary with Alan.

A walk with Beryl to the Lake after dark.

Reading & checking L's Novel study.? eds.

Feeling thoroughly happy, somehow.

Feb 11 Sat.

L. Beryl Alan Dorothy & I went to Rennes at 11. am

Fine day: lunch at Chez Metayer (guinea fowl & salad) in honour of demise of Yeats.

Bought small objects in market, and books for ~~Alan~~ Karl : repaired typewriter: red & green blouse, & stockings for Laura. But busy all the time till until 5; somehow.

X End of resistance in Catalunya.

Enclosure – Note by RG

mayor's nest

misprint of Alan's for mare's nest (fiasco?)

Feb 12 Sunday

Dictionary in two stretches with Alan.

Fine day. Usual walk round the lake with A. B. D.: then a walk with Beryl past the woodshed and along the big field to where the sawn logs of wood are lying.

Went over Novel study checks with Laura.

Feb 13 Monday

Dictionary.

Started a joint letter with Laura to Sunday Times about MacCarthy, Spender, Auden Our 'Modern' Poetry. See enclosure, Feb. 19th. eds..

To bed early, Laura not being well.

Feb 14 Tuesday.

Dictionary

Finished the letter Our 'Modern' Poetry eds. See enclosure. eds. with Laura.

My aches & twists now all but well: there is a custom now of going to Priour's in the evening for Russian billiards on a fiery, badly-tilted table.

Feb 15 Wednesday

I woke up with the lines:

Jacob built a private ladder to Heaven Though the design was not original He tested every rung. A Portrait of Little Jacob eds.

Dictionary with Alan

Worked till until 3 am on Dict by myself: going over Laura's list of A words.

Laura writing a difficult poem about an india-rubber.

Feb 16 Thursday

News from Joän Junyer: he & his wife are in Paris – 'hearts full of shame & indignation'. We wired them to come.

Laura wrote to Honor about letters: I don't think any have gone astray here: we have a drunken postman, & you know how careful ~~they~~ drunken people are with ~~about~~ letters.

Dictionary: we are at Ni.e. the letter 'N' eds.

Laura finished her poem & went to bed early, exhausted.

Feb 17 Friday

Alan & Beryl went to Rennes to meet Joyce : who came.

We started a Cambeluk game Dorothy & I; Beryl & Alan – to be played with real meditation on the board in the dining-room.

The cats are at last almost house-trained.

Bellamycat eds. is getting better of his hydropsy.

A ride with Dorothy to village: billiards at Darcel and to explain about her mimesis.

Worrying news: Ward has a tuberculous pile.

Wrote: 'A Portrait of Little Jacob'became "Dream of a Climber". A poem about Jacob Bronowski: see Complete Poems, Vol. II, pp. 133-34, 323-24 (note). DW; eds. from what I remembered of the sense of my dream.

Feb 18 Saturday

Dictionary twice as much as usual, and putting away words I got from Laura's list last night.

Laura doing a study of paintingCould this and the novel study be intended for Protocol Two? eds. ~~novel writing~~

Joyce making God-awful aggressive remarks: trying L's hostess spirit.

Walk with Beryl to Priour's where Alan, Dorothy, Joyce & I played Russian billiards.

A lot of primroses out now.

Enclosure – Clipping from Sunday Times of Letter by RG and LR

Our 'Modern' Poetry p.1

Our 'Modern' Poetry p.2

Feb 19 Sunday

Laura has a slight neuralgia but works.

Joyce has lost her voyce, but nobody minds. I doctor her with sliced lemon.

Laura & I had a slight walk towards St Uniac in the evening: the first for a long time. Then we started going over points in Swiss Ghost that I had marked last September.

Dictionary with Alan: & a long evening session with L and him, setting principles of category-making.

Started a poem about meum & tuummine & yours eds.. The Thieves eds.

Our Sunday Times letter Our 'Modern' Poetry eds. appeared. Not much cut.

Feb 20 Monday

Finished the poem The Thieves in three drafts. This makes ten poems since Collected Poems. (Fallen Signpost put into the proofs)

Dictionary with Alan & Laura.

Joyce such a bore coughing all over everything & making crude remarks.

Feb 21 Tuesday

Dictionary with Alan & Laura: resorting nouns of relation, mostly.

Walked to village with Joyce talked to her about her novel which she wants to publish though she knows it's no good; and she talks vaguely about having a baby and saving up money for it.

We have pine logs now.

Feb 22 Wednesday

Joyce went: thank God.

Beryl's Birthday. She had a cake with 24 Tomes de Beryl books of Beryl eds. on it and champagne from Alan & Dorothy;

sketch of round bracelet? the red & green glass bangle from Laura & my tortoiseshell st brooch from me.

We played an election game in the evening with nominations & balloting. Champagne.

Dictionary

The Left Heresy proofs came: I read some.

Alan has Joyce's flu.

Feb 23 Thursday

I had a touch of Joyce's flu.

Beryl too.

Dictionary & reading proofs of Left Heresy

Laura who finished her poem about the Rubbernot identified. eds. two days ago starting ~~one~~ a long one about gods.not identified. eds.

A long, very good letter from Schuyler Jackson.

Feb 24 Friday

The Cambeluk wall-game ended: Alan & ~~Dorothy~~ Beryl beat Dorothy & me. Even with care, ~~we both~~ each sides made one bad mistake s.

Dictionary.

Going over Left Heresy points with Laura, and Swiss Ghost.

Everyone fighting flu; more or less successfully. Nobody in bed.

We use pine logs now: but they crackle too loud.

Feb 25 Saturday

Dorothy made me a rest for my watch: of which I have decided to remove the hunteri.e. protective cover eds.. It was so thin, the glass broke underneath always.

Reading Ronald Bottrall's poems with a view to a preface The Turning Path eds..

Margaret Rawlings(1906-1996) British actress eds. is reading Greeks & Trojans on her way to U.S.A. United States of America

Dictionary, breaking up adjectives into new categories suggested by Laura.

Feb 26 Sunday

Still slightly fluish: taking aconite-pills every now & then.

More time with Laura on Left Heresy proofs.

Started writing letter-preface to Bottrall's poems The Turning Path eds..

Letters in answer to suggestion for a friendship protocolfor Protocol Two eds. are coming in: a surprisingly petty-bourgeois one from James, good ones from Harry & George Buchanan.

We had a talk at supper about names. Beryl was with Lucie & Mrs McCormack a Brown, Dorothy a Smith, Alan a Baker, Honor a Jones, Montague a Saunders. Laura called herself a Bailey & me a Gallagher, though I preferred White. She said Schuyler was a White.

Feb 27 Monday

Dictionary, reading proofs of Left Heresy, letter-preface to Bottrall's Poems The Turning Path .

Beryl Alan & I went to Montauban with the Petrolepetrol i.e. gas eds. tins ~~and~~ & I had a hair cut & played billiards with Alan.

There seems a great political change going on: we all feel something cracking. Sally writes that war is very near: but this makes no real sense.

Laura wrote today about reservations on boats to America.

Laura now says I am a Fortaskew.see name game 26 February,1939 eds.

~~Alan~~

Log Entries of Letters for February, 1939 1939

Feb 1

CN for birthday.

3rd.

Harry

A.G. Sam.

Harold

Tom about Dictionary.

Karl for birthday

12.

Montague: and Karl (books & medal).

Dr. Dunn

Sunday Times.

Honor

Dunn, L.H.

Ronald Bottrall (2)

Sunday Times with Alan about proliferation of mouldline from W.H. Auden, quoted by RG in Our 'Modern' Poetry eds. again

Feb 28 Tuesday

Laura said: 'I write so well anyone might mistake me for a hypocrite.'

Another joke about Marie's young man 'M.Salsafie' (corruption of Ça suffitit's enough eds.) She borrowed nine francs to buy a Pris UnicFrench dimestore eds. hair comb: then more money. Laura asked: 'another comb?' Leonie said that there were two M.Salsifies who alternately waited for Marie on her days out. Laura said. ~~That~~ 'Ah, that's why she wanted two combs.'

Another:

Laura asked me 'Have you no place for unanswered letters?'

Yes, a beautiful place.

Then why do I find odd letters tucked away in books?

Because you look in the wrong books.

Heavy cold starting.

* French

British recognise Franco

figure – a bracket } links "French" and "British" indicating both recognise Franco

Montauban Montauban-de-la-Bretagne Brittany France Hotel Ouest Montauban Brittany France Minorca Balearic Islands Spain One of the Balearic Islands eds. Rennes Rennes France where Gelat's daughter, Anita, and son-in-law, Juan Vives live; visited by RG and LR et al in 1938 eds. Chez Metayer Rennes Brittany France restaurant eds. Catalonia Catalonia Spain Paris France St. Uniac Brittany France a village within walking distance of La Chevrie. eds. Dorothy Simmons, Dorothy Sculptor associated with the Graves-Riding inner circle (1938-39). Married to Montague Simmons. eds Riding Laura Laura Riding, Laura (1901-91) American poet. Laura Riding (née Reichenthal; then Laura Gottschalk). 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). Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1882-1945): President of the United States (1933-1945). 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. Franco Franco, General Spanish General; led the Nationalist forces against the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War; Spanish Head of State from 1939-1969. Hodge Alan Alan Hodge, Alan Oxford history graduate. Became close friends with LR & RG. First husband of Beryl Graves. CP & WG 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 Graves Robert Robert Graves, Robert [1st person]. (1895-1985). Poet, novelist, essayist, critic, and author of his diary. eds. Perou Mme Perou Perou Madam Perou and her family who befriended RG et al at La Chevrie eds. Jackson Schuyler Schuyler Jackson Jackson, Schuyler American poet who became Laura Riding's second husband. Graves and Riding stayed with Jackson, his wife Katharine ("Kit"), and his family on their farm in Pennsylvania in 1939. It was here that the partnership between R.G. and L.R. came to an end. 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 McIntyre Alfred R. McIntyre McIntyre, Alfred R. president of Little, Brown & Co. (publishers) eds. Pinson M. Pinson Pinson, Monsieur lawyer in Montauban, France who handled the rental agreement for La Chevrie eds. Yeats W. B. Yeats Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) Major Irish poet. eds. Was on the island of Majorca December 1935. WG 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. Macarthy Desmond Desmond MacCarthy Macarthy, Desmond Chief book reviewer for the Sunday Times and a member of the Bloomsbury Group eds. Stephen Spender Spender, Stephen British poet (1909-1995). Political activist with left-wing sympathies. eds. Auden W. H. Auden Auden, W.H. British poet (1907-1973). R.G. disliked. eds Priour Priour, Monsieur a character associated with activities around La Chevrie: apparently he was proprietor of the local café (diary Nov. 26, 1938). 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. Reeves Joyce Joyce Reeves Reeves, Joyce Sister of James Reeves. AMG 287. Hutchinson Ward Ward Hutchinson, Ward Photographer. Contibuted to"Epilogue." W.G. R.G. often refers to "the Hutchinsons" (Ward & Dorothy) as a couple especially when they were staying on the island. eds. Bronowski Jacob Jacob Bronowski (Bruno) Bronowski, Jacob (1908-1974) Scientist and one time member of Laura Riding circle. WG Bottrall Francis James Ronald Bottrall Bottrall, Ronald poet KG; married to Margaret Bottrall, writer and editor eds. 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. Harry Kemp Kemp, Harry Poet. Met Graves and Riding through James Reeves in August 1936, just after their arrival in England. In their previous correspondence, Riding had been intrigued by his falling-out with Communism. He became associated with their circle, collaborating on various projects. (RPG 248-49) Buchanan George George Buchanan Buchanan, George drama critic KG; friend of RG and contributor to the World and Ourselves; wife Mary eds. Friedmann 307-8 Brown (Cecilia) Lucie (Leeds) Lucie Brown, Lucie Married artist John Aldridge. eds. 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. Simmons Montague Montague Simmonds Simmons, Montague poet, and civil servant in the children's branch of the Home Office; m. to Dorothy Simmons, the sculptress RPG Chilver née Graves Sally Sally Graves, Sally R.G.'s niece. Daughter of his half-brother Philip. KG Nicholson Catherine Catherine Nicholson, Catherine Catherine Nicholson: (1922- ) third of four children of Robert Graves and Nancy Nicholson. eds. Graves Amy A.G. (A.E.S.G) Graves, Amy Amy Graves, RG's Mother. WG Graves Samuel Sam Graves, Samuel R.G.'s youngest child by Nancy Nicholson. C.P.& WG Edwards Harold Harold Edwards Edwards, Harold Antiquarian bookseller & British Buddhist; bookshop at 4, Cecil Court off Charing X Rd. K.G.; wife Olive née Wallis and baby girl Sally. Karl Goldschmidt's employer in 1938. eds. Dunn Dr. Dunn Dunn, Dr. Regimental surgeon of the 2nd Royal Welch Fusiliers RPG 136; Captain James Dunn? eds. 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. Marie Marie Marie servant at La Chevrie eds. Leonie Léonie servant at La Chevrie 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. RP G RPG Unidentified person; possibly a misspelling of Robert Percival Graves (whose initials on this project are RG). 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. 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 Editors Editors of the Graves Diary Project. Dictionary [projected project; unfinished] Riding, Laura 1935 Trojan Ending [dramatised version based on Laura Riding's book; later called Greeks and Trojans] Graves, Robert 1938-01 Year of Damage [novel] Hodge, Alan 1936-12 A Love Story [poem] No More Ghosts [1940] Graves, Robert London Faber & Faber A50 1939-02-04 Time & Tide [political magazine (1920-1977) founded by Lady Margaret Rhondda. eds.] London Collected Poems [Review of both RG & LR's Collected Poems] Time and Tide Happenstall, Rayner London 1938-12-24 Collected Poems [1938] Riding, Laura London, Toronto, Melbourne & Sydney Cassell and Co. Ltd A35 1938 [Letter about Laura Riding's poetry] Time and Tide Graves, Robert 70-71 C294.1 1939-01-21 Contemporary Dichotomy, The [Letter in response to review of LR & RG's Collected Poems] Time and Tide Graves, Robert London 138 C294.3 1939-02-04 Covenant of Literal Morality, The [subtitle Protocol I; privately printed] Aldridge, John, Dorothy Hutchinson, Lucie Brown, Ward Hutchinson, George Buchanan, Alix Kemp, Mary Buchanan, Hary Kemp, Norman Cameron, Len Lye, Gordon Glover, Albert Mills, Robert Graves, Mary Phillips, Sally Graves, Beryl Pritchard, Liddell Hart, David Riding, Laura Bristol Western Printing Services Ltd. A37 1938 Daily Mail [Newspaper] London, England 1896 Robert Graves's Poems [Letter from RG on returning to poetry and W.B. Yeats] Daily Mail Graves, Robert London 10 C294.4 1939-02-08 Collected Poems [1938] Graves, Robert London, Toronto, Melbourne & Sydney Cassell and Co. Ltd A48 1938 [Epitaph on Yeats] [Enclosed in letter to KG from LR; see Friedmann 280] Riding, Laura 1939-02-09 Frightened Men [poem] Work in Hand [Alan Hodge, Norman Cameron, Robert Graves] Graves, Robert London Hogarth Press 1942-03 Robert Graves: The Complete Poems Vols. 1-3 Graves, Robert Beryl Graves and Dunstan Ward Manchester and Paris Carcanet Press and Alyscamps 1995-1999 Sunday Times [Sunday newspaper] London Hutchinson; Times Newspapers Our "Modern" Poetry [Letter by RG and LR about MacCarthy, Spender, & Auden] Sunday Times Graves, Robert/ Riding, Laura London 16 C294.5 1939-02-19 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 Dream of a Climber [poem] Work in Hand [Alan Hodge, Norman Cameron, Robert Graves] Graves, Robert London Hogarth Press B30 1942-03 Protocol Two [unpublished, see RPG 295] Riding, Laura 1939 The Swiss Ghost [formerly The Kind Ghost] [novel] Graves, Robert/ Riding, Laura 1937-04-22 Thieves, The [poem] No More Ghosts [1940] Graves, Robert London Faber & Faber A50 1939-02-19 Fallen Signpost, The [poem] Collected Poems [1938] Graves, Robert London, Toronto, Melbourne & Sydney Cassell A48 1938-08-19 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 Letter [Prefatory Introduction] Turning Path, The [poetry by Ronald Bottrall; dedicated to LR; prefatory letter by RG] Graves, Robert London A. Barker xi-xii B29.1 1939-02-25