Dec 27 Friday

Porchada1 being put over Can Torrent portal mayor2.
Engineers surveying carretera3.
Took Margarita the Modista4 her gift bottle of anis5.
(Gelat's presents came from the big Palma mansion opposite the Grand Hotel).
Laura reading the T.E. stuff. Cleared off all my remaining letters.
Warm wind: no fires for the last four days.
Moved the hibiscus to[RG] gardenia to shelter from winds.
Torrent by Fábrica full of oranges blown down into it.
Went over T.E. with Laura up to a point.

Editorial Notes

1Porch roof. KG
2front door. KG
3main road. KG
4Dress maker. KG
5liqueur. KG

Hands Referenced

    • Annotation: ink correction
    • Character: regular
    • Ink: black

Places Mentioned

  • Torrent

    Deyá, Mallorca, Spain
    river that cuts through the valley below Graves' house, Canelluñ eds.

  • Palma

    Palma, Majorca, Sp
    Capital and largest centre of Majorca.

  • Can Torrent

    Deyá, Majorca, Sp
    House next to Canellun also belonging to LR & RG. Built by Norman Cameron. 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

People Mentioned

  • 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.)

  • Laura

    Riding, Laura
    (1901-91) American poet. Laura Riding (née Reichenthal; then Laura Gottschalk).

  • Margarita Modista

    Margarita Modista
    Modista: Dress maker (in Deyá). W.G., eds.

Bibliography

    • Title: T.E. Lawrence to His Biographer
    • Author: Lawrence, T.E.
    • Editor: Graves, Robert
    • PubPlace: New York
    • Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc.
    • Idno: A49
    • Date: 1938