Oct 17 Monday.

All morning & afternoon cleaning out the smutted rooms: with help from Alan & Yvonne & Leonie. Not much damage after all.
Very sleepy: but dictionary with Alan.
In the evening we resumed 7 ¼1, and then I went to bed, read Wodehouse's Summer Moonshine2, slept
The wash-barrel[RG] tub[RG] came from the menuisier3 after 4 weeks.

Editorial Notes

1card game eds.
2 Summer Moonshine by P.G. Wodehouse. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday Doran, 1937. eds.
3carpenter eds.

Hands Referenced

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

People Mentioned

  • Alan

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

  • Leonie

    Léonie
    servant at La Chevrie eds.

  • Wodehouse

    Wodehouse
    Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881-1975), author and humourist eds.

  • Yvonne

    de Gault, Yvonne
    maidservant to RG and LR at La Chevrie, France eds.

Bibliography

    • Title: Dictionary [projected project; unfinished]
    • Author: Riding, Laura
    • Date: 1935