VINTAGE “The Infant With the Globe" Beryl Graves Hand Written Letter For Sale
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VINTAGE “The Infant With the Globe" Beryl Graves Hand Written Letter:
$349.99
Up for sale a RARE! "The Infant With the Globe" Beryl Graves Hand Written Letter Dated 1982.
ES-1360B
Robert
Graves was most widely known for his novel “I, Claudius,” written in the early
1930s. It was adapted into a TV miniseries that aired in the United States on
public television’s Masterpiece Theater in 1977. In his long career, he also
wrote dozens of volumes of poetry as well as novels and nonfiction works. He
also translated a variety of classical texts. Beryl Graves collaborated with
her husband on two of his translations: “The Cross and the Sword” by Manuel de
Jesus Galvan and “The Infant With the Globe” by Pedro Antonio de Alarcon. After
his death, she co-edited Graves’ “Complete Poems,” published in 1995. At times
during his life, she also was his typist. Graves prided himself on his
inability to use the manual machine and wrote everything in longhand, including
several dozen letters on a typical day. Beryl Pritchard was born in London on
Feb. 22, 1915. She attended Oxford University, where she studied politics,
philosophy and economics. She met Graves when she was 22 and already engaged to
Alan Hodge, a writer whom she married the following year. Graves, who was 20
years Pritchard’s senior, was separated from his first wife, Nancy Nicholson
(with whom he also had four children) and was living with his mistress, the
poet Laura Riding. The newlywed Hodges spent part of 1938 sharing a chateau in
Brittany, France, with Graves and Riding. Pritchard first became Graves’ muse,
then divorced Hodge and had three children with Graves before she married him
in 1950. Their fourth child was born in 1957. The Graveses lived through World
War II in Devon, England, and then moved to Majorca into the same house that
Robert Graves had once shared with Riding. Author Miranda Seymour, Robert
Graves’ official biographer, recalled meeting Beryl Graves there in 1993.
Physically beautiful, with high cheekbones, gray eyes and thick, straight hair,
Beryl Graves was gracious to Seymour but not forthcoming about her unusual
marriage, Seymour wrote this week in an obituary of Graves for the London
Independent newspaper. Later in his life, Robert Graves developed dementia and
Beryl attended to him as a nurse would. Seymour recalled how Beryl once helped
her husband out of an awkward situation when his memory failed him. He was
being introduced to the cast of “I, Claudius” and announced that he was 140
years old, nearly twice his actual age. “That might well be,” Beryl Graves
added lightly. “At breakfast he had been 120.” Beryl Graves is survived by her
four children.
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