Ms draft of 'The Sufic Chequer-Board'

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Ms draft of Graves's essay 'The Sufic Chequer-Board' published in 'Difficult Questions, Easy Answers'. Graves writes about the Sufic chequer-board used "for oracular purposes". Pages numbered 1, 2, 2A, 3 and 4. Page 2 bears a substantial diagram.

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Canelluñ Collection number: CC1538

This refers to the arrangement of the papers in Robert Graves’ study before they were transferred to the College.

Custodial History

Pages 2A and 3 arrived separately, originally filed with miscellaneous fragments in box 17.

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Sufic Chequer-Board, The

Difficult Questions, Easy Answers

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Papers of Robert Graves: Critical prose and journalismRG/G

Interviews and broadcastsRG/G/A

Introductions, forewords and other contributions to works by othersRG/G/B

Essays and articlesRG/G/C

'Answer to Questionnaire on Christ'RG/G/CAQC

'Alas, What Has Happened to the Arts?'RG/G/CAWHA

'Are Women More Romantic than Men?'RG/G/CAWMRM

'Belisarius'RG/G/CB

'The Blunder'RG/G/CBl

Article for 'Book News'RG/G/CBN

'Cutting off the Allowance'RG/G/CCA

'The Common Asphodel'RG/G/CCAs

Foreword to 'The Crane Bag'RG/G/CCB

'Corn Can Sparkle Like a Star'RG/G/CCCSS

'Crime and Detection in English Literature'RG/G/CCDEL

'Customs of Majorca'RG/G/CCM

'The Case for Xanthippe'RG/G/CCX

'The Dear Children'RG/G/CDC

Comments on 'Lineal and Non-Lineal Codifications of Reality'RG/G/CDL

'Arts and Crafts'RG/G/CDqAC

'The Bible in Europe'RG/G/CDqBE

'Birds and Men'RG/G/CDqBM

Foreword to 'Difficult Questions, Easy Answers'RG/G/CDqF

'Genius'RG/G/CDqG

'Goddesses and Obosoms'RG/G/CDqGO

'The Heart Shape'RG/G/CDqHS

'The Inner Ear'RG/G/CDqIE

'The Kaiser's War'RG/G/CDqKW

'Mushrooms and Religion'RG/G/CDqMR

'Ovid and the Libertines'RG/G/CDqOL

'The Pentagram of Isis'RG/G/CDqPI

'Poetry and Obscenity'RG/G/CDqPO

'Rationality'RG/G/CDqR

'The Sufic Chequer-Board'RG/G/CDqSC

Ms draft of 'The Sufic Chequer-Board'RG/G/CDqSC/1

'Solomon's Seal'RG/G/CDqSS

'What Has Gone Wrong?'RG/G/CDqWGW

'Do You Remember Albuhera?'RG/G/CDYRA

'Epidaurus'RG/G/CE

'English Ecclesiastical Habits'RG/G/CEEH

'The English Sun-Seekers'RG/G/CESS

'Forgotten Loyalists'RG/G/CFL

'Gábor Devecseri: Record of a Poetic Friendship'RG/G/CGD

'The Grass Roots of Language'RG/G/CGRL

Writing on games and sportRG/G/CGS

'Houses in My Life'RG/G/CHL

'Home Thoughts from Abroad'RG/G/CHTFA

'It Happened in 513 B.C.'RG/G/CIHFBC

'I Hate Poems'RG/G/CIHP

'I Like it Here'RG/G/CILH

'In My End is My Beginning'RG/G/CIME

'I Solve Man's Dress Problem'RG/G/CISMDP

'Isle of Tranquility: Minorca'RG/G/CITM

'A Journey to Paradise'RG/G/CJP

'Mammon and the Black Goddess'RG/G/CMBG

'The Most Cultured of All Romans'RG/G/CMCR

'My Day'RG/G/CMD

'Mostly it's Money that Makes a Writer Go, Go, Go'RG/G/CMM

'Mr Nabokov's Democratic Eclecticism'RG/G/CMNDE

'My Version of the Rubaiyyat'RG/G/CMVR

'Nation Gone Mad!'RG/G/CNGM

'Notes on Keats' "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"'RG/G/CNK

'Nausicaa's Odyssey'RG/G/CNO

'The New Vandals'RG/G/CNV

'Oddities'RG/G/CO

'Odysseus'RG/G/COd

'Original Meanings'RG/G/COM

'Pot is Ancient History'RG/G/CPAH

'Princess Anne's Wedding'RG/G/CPAW

'Planning a Holiday'RG/G/CPH

'Reincarnation'RG/G/CR

'The Truest Poet'RG/G/CRF

'Routine Science'RG/G/CRS

'Real Women'RG/G/CRW

Foreword to 'Steps'RG/G/CS

'Saying Exactly What You Mean'RG/G/CSEM

'The Spoilt Honeymoon'RG/G/CSH

'Service to the Muse'RG/G/CSM

'Science, Technology and Poetry'RG/G/CSTP

'Salamanca This Year'RG/G/CSTY

'Scared of Women'RG/G/CSW

'Sevillian Yellow Plum Conserve'RG/G/CSYPC

'The Two Abbeys'RG/G/CTA

Biographies of T.E.LawrenceRG/G/CTEL

'T.E. Lawrence and the Riddle of "S.A."'RG/G/CTELRSA

'Talking about Hexes'RG/G/CTH

'They Knew What They Wanted'RG/G/CTKWTW

'The Triple Queendom'RG/G/CTQ

'Tyger, Tyger'RG/G/CTT

Unidentified pieces of critical proseRG/G/CU

'The Wall'RG/G/CW

'What I Have Learned'RG/G/CWIHL

'Why I Live in Majorca'RG/G/CWILM

'Why Latin?'RG/G/CWL

'Why do People Collect Postage Stamps'RG/G/CWPCPS

'Why Read Poetry?'RG/G/CWRP

Book reviewsRG/G/D

Letters to periodicalsRG/G/E

Critical editionsRG/G/F