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- [c. 1890]-[c. 1934] (mainly [1928]-1934) (Creation)
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102 ff.
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The letters to her father appear to have been returned to Ruck following his death in 1939.
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Forty-six manuscript and typescript letters, [c. 1890]-[c. 1934], from Berta Ruck, mostly to her father, Col Arthur Ashley Ruck, [1920s]-[c. 1934], containing mainly personal and family news.
Also included are two letters to her grandmother Mary Anne Ruck, [c. 1890] (ff. 1-4), and a carbon copy letter to her sister-in-law, Georgina Ruck, 15 July 1932 (ff. 86-91). Most of the letters were written either from home or while on holiday in Austria, France, Germany and Sweden. There are references to Oliver Onions (ff. 6-100 passim), Geoffrey Moss (f. 6), Sir Ray Lankester (ff. 9 verso, 10 verso-11, 12, 31, 32, 66), Ménie Muriel FitzGerald (ff. 13-17, 18, 29, 46-47, 56, 59), Alec Waugh (ff. 26, 35-36) and Vita Sackville West (f. 46); she also describes her car accident on 14 July 1932 (ff. 88-91). There are ink drawings by Ruck on f. 2 recto-verso.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23781D.
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- Ruck, A. A. (Arthur Ashley), 1847-1939 -- Correspondence. (Subject)
- Moss, Geoffrey, 1885-1954. (Subject)
- Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir, 1847-1929. (Subject)
- Dowie, Ménie Muriel, 1867-1945. (Subject)
- Waugh, Alec, 1898-1981 (Subject)
- Sackville-West, V. (Victoria), 1892-1962 (Subject)