June 9th Tuesday

Hot day.
Wrote a note on Eliot for Drama notes.
Bartolomé finished the bench with a design on the back worked out by all 3 of us.
Fuller sent Antigua (all but 2nd Trial chapter) – Incorporated all the changes I had made in first copy.
Rose[RG] Arbour posts put up.
Gelat told of last minute attempt to settle the water plea: everyone anxious to settle except Boy. He persists and threatens Señor of Pedrissa: says he's been promised £[RG] 5000 pes [pesetas]. and assured that he'll win.
Krasnik dog very ill: underfeeding?
The alfalfa flowering.
Put up Laura's mosquito net.
Incorporated Fuller's corrections: now only Laura to go through Antigua.
Wrote to A.G.

Hands Referenced

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

Places Mentioned

  • Pedrissa, Sa

    Majorca, Sp
    Farm on the way to Valldemossa. WG

People Mentioned

  • Bill Fuller

    Fuller, William
    lawyer and researcher for Antigua Penny Puce KG; m. to Mary Fuller eds.

  • Bartolomé

    Bartolomé
    The mason. WG

  • A.G. (A.E.S.G)

    Graves, Amy
    Amy Graves, RG's Mother. WG

  • 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).

  • T.S. Eliot

    Eliot, T.S.
    Major 20th century poet; dramatist, essayist, critic. b. Missouri, U.S.A. in 1888. Became a British subject. Director of Faber and Faber, which published some works by Robert Graves. Corresponded with R.G. d. 1965. eds.

  • "Boi"

    Boi, Sebastian
    The "torpe." Slightly half witted. WG

  • Krasnik

    Krassnigg
    Austrian Deyá resident. W.G. Austrian painter: his wife's name was Pauline. K.G.

Bibliography

    • Title: Antigua Penny Puce
    • Author: Graves, Robert
    • PubPlace: Deyá & London
    • Publisher: Seizin & Constable
    • Idno: A46
    • Date: 1936
    • Title: Drama
    • Title: Epilogue III
    • Author: Riding, Laura/ Hodge, Alan/ Graves, Robert
    • Editor: Riding, Laura
    • PubPlace: Deyá & London
    • Publisher: Seizin & Constable
    • BiblScope: 193-226
    • Date: 1937