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Drawings, [1900x1920], by Berta Ruck, including illustrations for publications and rough sketches.
They include ink, pencil and charcoal illustrations, some coloured; the main subjects are children at play, mothers with babies and scenes of daily life, some probably in France and Holland. Two leaves from the children's magazine The Jabberwock, [1905x1907], contain four illustrations by Ruck (ff. 30-31 verso). A portrait of Mrs Patrick Campbell is on f. 7. Also included are some miscellaneous notes (ff. 16, 17, 27 verso).

Thirteen notebooks, 1951-1973, containing journal entries; letters and postcards, many from relatives, literary agents and the media (relating in particular to her broadcasts on Welsh regional BBC programmes); photographs; ideas for fiction; and press cuttings of book reviews.

Notebook of Berta Ruck, July 1964-[August] 1965, including letters from William Condry, September 1965, Dyfnallt Morgan, December 1964, and Raleigh Trevelyan, February-March 1965.

Notebook of Berta Ruck, August 1968-October 1969, including letters from Glyn Tegai Hughes, August 1968, and Nancy Mitford, December 1968; and notes relating to her novel Ancestral Voices (London, 1972).

Notebook of Berta Ruck, July 1972-January 1973, including letters from Rupert Croft-Cooke, July 1972, Elaine Morgan, [n.d.], and Gwyn Thomas, December 1971; and sketches for 'The Wild Elopement' (see also NLW MS 23745D for 'The Reckless Elopement'), and 'The Wishful Thought'.

A photocopy, [20 cent., third ¼], of a children's story entitled 'The edge of the world', written and illustrated by Berta Ruck and presented to Oliver Onions in December 1907.

Typescript, 1969, by Beryl Gonzales of her apparently unpublished work, 'Berta Ruck. A Study of Literary Romance', containing publishing details and plot summaries of Berta Ruck's novels and autobiographical works, 1914-1967, together with extracts from reviews of them.

Notebook of Berta Ruck, June 1918-September 1919, containing impressions of wartime life in North Wales and London and of her visit to the USA in 1919, later reworked and incorporated into chapters 16-25 of her autobiographical volume A Story-teller tells the Truth (London, 1935); also included are commonplace entries and extracts from letters received.