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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.

Papers of Berta Ruck, [20 cent., third ¼], comprising volumes of notebooks, 1951-1973, and a photocopy, [20 cent., third ¼], of a 1907 children's story 'The edge of the world'.

Notebook of Berta Ruck, 1951-1956, including letters from Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, May 1953, and Emlyn Williams, July 1955; notes for her novels Fantastic Holiday (London, 1953) and The Men in Her Life (London, 1954); and a copy of Dock Leaves, 3.9 (Winter 1952).

Notebook of Berta Ruck, July 1970-January 1971, including letters from Shirley Hazzard, July-September 1970.

Notebook of Berta Ruck, April-October 1971, including a letter from Anthony Swerling, June 1971.

Notebook of Berta Ruck, October 1971-June 1972, including letters from Cyril Connolly, [n.d.], and Brocard Sewell, February 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.

Notebook of Berta Ruck, 1957-1960, including letters from Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, February 1958, September 1959 and [n.d.], Eleanor Graham, September 1957, Harold Nicolson, September 1958, Brocard Sewell, February-March 1960, and Sacheverell Sitwell, March 1958; two sketches, 1901, which Ruck drew for a School of Art scholarship; and printed extracts from tributes to Alice Helena Alexandra Williams ('Alys Meirion') following her death in 1957, including Berta Ruck's broadcast in 'Woman's Hour'.

Notebook of Berta Ruck, May 1960-April 1961, including letters from Emyr Humphreys, February 1961, Hesketh Pearson, October 1960, and Vita Sackville-West, March 1961.

Notebook of Berta Ruck, April 1962-July 1964, including letters from Lord Toby Aldington, August 1962, Ursula Bloom, October 1963, Barbara Cartland, [n.d.], Harold B. Hewitt, October 1963, Heather Jenner, November 1963, Dyfnallt Morgan, October 1963, and Harold Nicolson, December 1962; and a memorial service card of her brother Oliver Laurence Ruck, Llanidloes Parish Church.

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, 1966, including letters from Heather Jenner, October 1966, Professor Gwyn Jones, September 1966, Llywelyn Phillips, August-September 1966, Denise Robins and Sylvia Thorpe, November 1966, and Raleigh Trevelyan, February 1966.

Notebook of Berta Ruck, January-August 1967, including letters from George Mackay Brown, March 1967, Heather Jenner, February 1966-March 1967; and Glyn Jones, May 1967.

Notebook of Berta Ruck, October 1967-June 1968, including letters from Rupert Croft-Cooke, February 1968, and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, [n.d.].

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).

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].

The printer's copy, [1969x1970], in typescript, of Berta Ruck, An Asset to Wales (London, 1970), with manuscript additions and emendations by the author.
In addition to minor deletions throughout, there is an entire deleted section (4 ff.) from Chapter 2, most of f. 26 having been crossed through and ff. 27-29 having been omitted entirely. Some folios consist of two or more partial leaves pasted together.

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.