Aug 12 Thursday

Incorporated a lot of new Alan material in ch. [Chapter] 4 & what I had done of Ch [Chapter] 5.
Tanny Brown and John & Lucie came ×××× [indecipherable] to lunch. Tanny went off early, John & Lucie stayed the night.
John broke the bow (the English1 one) & Tanny & he & Karl & I mended it with twine-binding.
Talk about 'maltashes' Lucie's word for women towards whom homosexuals feel sympathetic.
I cooked the supper.
Rain in evening.

Editorial Notes

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Hands Referenced

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.

  • Alan

    Hodge, Alan
    Oxford history graduate. Became close friends with LR & RG. First husband of Beryl Graves. CP & WG

  • Tanny Brown

    Brown, Tanny
    a painter, ex-husband of Maisie Sommerville KG; father of Maisie's son Timothy Brown eds.

  • Aldridge

    Aldridge, John
    (1905-1983), painter and close friend and collaborator. WG m. to Lucie Brown 1940 eds.

  • Lucie

    Brown, Lucie
    Married artist John Aldridge. eds.