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Notebook of Berta Ruck, May 1933-May 1934, containing journal entries, including impressions of stays in Vienna, July, September 1933 (ff. 9 verso-10, 71-75, 84 verso-85), and the Tyrol, July-September 1933 (ff. 11-71), and brief notes for fiction. Some forty-nine mainly personal and family letters, cards and telegrams, press cuttings of articles by her, photographs, theatre programmes and other ephemera have been pasted in or are loose in the volume.
The correspondents include Marda Vanne, [June] 1933 (f. 8), Oliver Onions, February-August 1933 (ff. 38 verso, 91, 132, 136 recto-verso), Margaret Storm Jameson, 17 May 1933 (f. 88), A. M. Low, May-November 1933 (ff. 89, 92, 97 verso, 134 verso, 137 verso), James Agate, 25 January 1934 (f. 118), Louis Marlow, 20 March 1934 (f. 119 verso), and Ménie Muriel FitzGerald, April 1934 (ff. 123 verso-124). Her Tyrol journal includes a detailed account of location filming for the Basil Dean directed films The Constant Nymph (1933) (ff. 19 verso-51) and Autumn Crocus (1934) (ff. 52-71), her son Arthur being part of the film crew. Photographs in the volume include Ruck (ff. 36, 42 verso, 56), the actress Victoria Hopper (ff. 40 verso, 56) and other film crew (ff. 32-42 verso), on location, and Alys Meirion (f. 100). There are pen and pencil sketches by Ruck on ff. 21 verso, 75, 96 recto-verso, 114, 127 verso, 128 verso. On f. 91 is Oliver Onions' description, 26 February 1923 [recte 1933], of the funeral of Robin Anwyl, Llugwy.

Notebook of Berta Ruck, August-December 1938, containing a journal of a stay in Italy, mostly around Lake Garda and Venice, August-September 1938 (ff. 1-34), notes for fiction, and comments on the Sudeten crisis in Europe. Photographs, press cuttings, theatre programmes and twenty-six personal and family letters and cards, 1936, 1938, have been pasted in.
The correspondents include Oliver Onions, July-September 1938 (ff. 9 verso, 13 verso, 14 verso, 17 verso, 20 verso, 21 verso, 47 verso), Philip Connard, [1938] (f. 27 verso), and Marda Vanne, 4 August 1938 (f. 48); a letter on behalf of Queen Mary, 3 February 1936, acknowledges Ruck's letter of condolence on the death of George V (f. 3 verso). A programme and cuttings, October 1938, relating to the first production of the Emlyn Williams play The Corn is Green are ff. 34 verso, 36, 43-44. Among the photographs are two of Ruck in Venice and Cologne (ff. 45 verso, 49). The journal entries include an overheard conversation between a German and an Austrian concerning 'the Juden question' (f. 18) and a description of the former residence of Gabriele D'Annunzio at Gardone (ff. 29 verso-30)

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.

Notebook of Berta Ruck, September 1919-March 1920, containing impressions of her visit to the USA and comparing British and American life; a press cutting of a review of her novel The Immortal Girl (London, 1925) has been inserted on f. 57 verso.

Notebook of Berta Ruck, February-September 1939, containing diary entries, ideas for fiction, comments on the progress of her writing and on the threat of war, and pasted-in letters and cards to her, including one from J. B. Priestley (f. 23 verso). Also pasted in are press cuttings relating to contemporary events including the death of W. B. Yeats and the European political crisis.

Manuscripts of Berta Ruck, [c. 1890]-[1974x1978], including notebooks, 1906-1946; manuscripts and typescripts of literary and autobiographical works, 1955-[1974x1978]; letters, [c. 1890]-1971; poetry, [1920s]-[1930s]; and sketches, [1900x1920].
The notebooks typically contain notes and ideas for fiction, drawings and sketches, pasted in letters and ephemera, and journal entries. These detail her home life and travels and give news of her sons Arthur and Bill Oliver, husband Oliver Onions and other family and friends.

Papers, [c. 1890]-[1974x1978], of Berta Ruck, including notebooks containing journal entries, ideas for fiction, newspaper cuttings and ephemera, 1906-1973; literary and autobiographical manuscripts, typescripts and photocopies, [1950x1955]-[1974x1978]; letters, [c. 1890]-[1972]; poetry, [1920s]-[1930s]; and sketches, [1900x1920].