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- 1939 (Creation)
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66 ff. with insertions ; 205 x 160 mm.
Spiral-bound notebook; 'NOTES IN WAR-TIME Continued September 23 1939' and 'Vol II' (label on front cover); 'VOLUME II' (ink on front cover).
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Notebook of Berta Ruck, Aberdyfi, September-December 1939, containing journal entries and comments on the progress of the war. Press cuttings relating to contemporary events, photographs and some forty-six letters and postcards, mostly personal, to the author have been pasted in.
The correspondents include her son Arthur Oliver, October-[November] 1939 (ff. 13-14, 16, 33 recto-verso, 42-44), Ménie Muriel FitzGerald, 2 October 1939 (f. 12 verso), Michael Joseph, October-November 1939 (ff. 12 verso, 40, 59 verso), Anthony Thorne, [1939] (f. 34), Horace Horsnell, 28 November 1939 (f. 59), Harold Nicolson, 21 November 1939 (f. 59a), and Osbert Sitwell, 28 November 1939 (f. 60 verso). There are numerous references in journal and letters to the marriages of both her sons, Arthur and Bill, in October 1939. Among the photographs are one of Ruck (inside front cover) and two of Bill Oliver (inside front cover, f. 36 verso).
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Leaf removed between ff. 50 and 51.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23720B.
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- Oliver, Arthur -- Marriage. (Subject)
- Oliver, William Richard, 1913-2007 -- Marriage. (Subject)
- Ruck, Berta, 1878-1978 -- Photographs. (Subject)
- Oliver, William Richard, 1913-2007 -- Photographs. (Subject)
- Oliver, Arthur (Subject)
- Dowie, Ménie Muriel, 1867-1945. (Subject)
- Joseph, Michael, 1897-1958. (Subject)
- Horsnell, Horace, 1882-1949. (Subject)
- Thorne, Anthony. (Subject)
- Nicolson, Harold, 1886-1968 (Subject)
- Sitwell, Osbert, 1892-1969. (Subject)