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- 1902-[early 1970s] (Creation)
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292 ff. (ff. 177 verso-183 verso inverted text; ff. 197-224 blank)
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ff. 249-250 : Originally belonged to the journal now NLW MS 23739D (between ff. 8 and 9).
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Miscellaneous papers of Berta Ruck, 1902-[early 1970s], including autograph and typescript drafts of verse, [1920s]-[1930s], many in multiple copies (ff. 1-123); lecture notes, [c. 1935]-[c. 1945] (ff. 124-224); a short story, 'April Folly', [c. 1935], apparently related to her novel Half Past Kissing Time (London, 1936) (ff. 225-248); and some thirteen letters to the author in English and German, [1903x1904]-1971 (ff. 264-283).
The correspondents include Clement Scott, [1903x1904] (f. 264), Marda Vanne, 9 October 1936 (f. 280), Harold Nicolson, 14 June 1962 (f. 281, on the death of his wife, Vita Sackville-West), and Quentin Bell, September 1971 (ff. 282-283, concerning his biography of Virginia Woolf); there are also three letters, 1929, from 'Harry', her Austrian lover (ff. 265-272, mostly in German). Also included are two leaves from Ruck's journal, June 1930 (ff. 249-250); reminiscences, [early 1970s], of Lydia Lopokova (ff. 251-259) with a photograph of her, [?1920s] (f. 260); press cuttings of an article by Ruck, September 1936 (f. 261), and of two articles relating to Virginia Woolf, 1972 (ff. 262-263); W. R. Oliver's school report at Shrewsbury School, 1929 (f. 284); programme for 'My Lady Molly' at the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, 1902 (ff. 285-286); and page proofs for Chapter 8 of A Smile for the Past (London, 1935) (ff. 287-292).
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- English
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English, German.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23783F.
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- Lopokova, Lydia, 1892-1981. (Subject)
- Lopokova, Lydia, 1892-1981 -- Photographs. (Subject)
- Vanne, Marda, 1896-1970 (Subject)
- Nicolson, Harold, 1886-1968 (Subject)
- Bell, Quentin. (Subject)
- Scott, Clement, 1841-1904. (Subject)
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 (Subject)
- Sackville-West, V. (Victoria), 1892-1962 -- Death and burial (Subject)