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Enclosures for January 1939
Log Entries
Jan 6 Friday
Dictionary (F)1
Reading The War the Infantry Knew2
Second draft of a poem about love and Africa3.
To Montauban on bike: first time for several weeks: Russian billiards
She wrote a letter to Chamberlain.
A crop of jokes about Massa
Montague & his negroes. It started some months ago when he was here: he heard some singing
at night & the Commis5 at the farm – & said it sounded like negroes.
Stripped Xmas
[Christmas] tree: made a club out of mistletoe bough.
Editorial Notes
1i.e. the letter 'F' eds.
2
The War the Infantry Knew, 1914-1919 by J.C. Dunn. London: P.S. King & Son Ltd., 1938, 1987. eds.
3
"The Love Beast" RPG 295-6
4for Lives of Wives eds.
5clerks eds.
Hands Referenced
Places Mentioned
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Montauban
Montauban-de-la-Bretagne, Brittany, France
People Mentioned
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Laura
Riding, Laura(1901-91) American poet. Laura Riding (née Reichenthal; then Laura Gottschalk). -
Chamberlain
Chamberlain, Neville(1869-1940) British Prime Minister in the 1930s; m. to Anne Chamberlain née Cole eds. -
Montague Simmonds
Simmons, Montaguepoet, and civil servant in the children's branch of the Home Office; m. to Dorothy Simmons, the sculptress RPG
Bibliography
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- Title: Dictionary [projected project; unfinished]
- Author: Riding, Laura
- Date: 1935
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- Title: Lives of Wives [prose]
- Author: Riding, Laura
- PubPlace: London, Toronto, Melbourne & Sydney
- Publisher: Cassell and Co. Ltd.
- Idno: A39
- Date: 1939
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- Title: Love Beast, The [poem; published as The Beast]
- Title: No More Ghosts
- Author: Graves, Robert
- PubPlace: London
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Idno: A50
- Date: 1939-01-06