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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