Aug 31 Sat.

To village for sugar & to find lost watch (no go) But apples, monjetas [sic: mangettas] 1 (meat &) half a marrow.
Boiled up the jelly: made 20 lb or more, very sharp, like black[KG] red currant, & very stiff. Some to Strenge, Karl & Isabel's mother.
Put up notice of loss of watch.
A.F.T. [Almost Forgotten Times] Chapter XVIII
Sent that letter to Liddell Hart.
First yellow fig from grotto. First melon of the large green kind.
Smuggling reign of terror. Special judge. I [sic: i]n a few days all ring leaders put in prison — bail for 300,000 pesetas — including Mayor of Felanitx & Miguel of Bar Ritz, & one from Bar Formentor & one from Café Born. Head of tobacco company released on bail of 25,000 then arrested: bail demanded was then 200,000. (Also stern round up of passportless foreigners.) Heavy prison sentences.

Editorial Notes

1Mallorquin for green beans. KG

Hands Referenced

    • Annotation: ink correction of BG tss
    • Character: schooled
    • Ink: red

Places Mentioned

  • Felanitx

    Felanitx, Majorca, Sp
    Large town on south east part of island. WG

  • Bar Formentor

    Palma [?], Majorca, Sp
    One of the up-market bars. WG

People Mentioned

  • 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.

  • Isabella

    Isabel
    Live-in maid from Murcia. Her mother (Carmen) then came over with Josefa who also came to work later. WG

  • Strenge

    Strenge, Frau Emmi
    Schwarz's house keeper and ? mistress. WG

  • 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.

Bibliography

    • Title: Almost Forgotten Germany [Almost Forgotten Times]
    • Author: Schwarz, Georg
    • Editor: Trans. Graves, Robert/ Riding, Laura
    • PubPlace: Deyá & London
    • Publisher: Seizin & Constable
    • Idno: A45
    • Date: 1936