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- 1914-1915, [1922] (Creation)
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i, 70 ff. with insertions (ff. 64 verso-66, 67-68, 69 verso inverted text) ; 250 x 165 mm.
Paper covers with marbled paper end-papers.
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Notebook of Berta Ruck, 1914-[1922], containing draft passages of fiction, including passages from The Wrong Mr Right (London, 1922) (ff. 8-26 verso, 35 verso, 62 verso), together with notes and journal entries giving impressions of life in wartime in both Britain and France, March 1914-November 1915.
There are extensive notes concerning a journey to Paris and Bordeaux, apparently in the company of Menié Muriel Dowie, October-November 1915 (ff. 43 verso-48, 50-55, 56 verso-62, 63-64, 66 verso-67); as well as visits to aircraft works, 1914 (ff. 29 verso-32, 64 verso-66); and to Aberystwyth and the family home at Esgair, 1914-1915 (ff. 2, 3, 35, 41 verso-42). There are a number of pen and ink drawings by Ruck (notably ff. 24-25, 59 verso, 61).
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Original front cover lost and replaced at NLW; binding repaired at NLW.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23715B.
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- Dowie, Ménie Muriel, 1867-1945. (Subject)
- Ruck, Berta, 1878-1978 -- Travel -- France (Subject)