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- 1939-1940 (Creation)
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66 ff. with insertions ; 205 x 160 mm.
Spiral-bound notebook; 'WAR-TIME NOTES. Vol III. Begun December 14 1939' (label on front cover).
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Notebook of Berta Ruck, December 1939-May 1940, containing journal entries, comments on the progress of the war and notes for fiction. Press cuttings relating to contemporary events, other ephemera and some sixty-nine letters, postcards and Christmas cards, mostly to the author, have been pasted in.
The correspondents include Oliver Onions, 25 December 1939 (f. 20), Arthur Oliver, December 1939-May 1940 (ff. 2b, 20 verso, 51, 57, 63-65 verso), Vicki Baum, 25 November 1939 (f. 2), Edith Heal, [December 1939] (ff. 2a, 20 verso), Anthony Thorne, December 1939, March 1940 (ff. 7 verso, 56 verso), Osbert Sitwell, Christmas [1939] (f. 19 verso), Ménie Muriel FitzGerald, [1939] (f. 22 verso), Naomi Jacob, [December 1939] (f. 26 verso), Alys Meirion, 29 December [1939] (f. 27), Lieut-Cmdr Bradwell T. Turner, [February 1940] (f. 47 verso), Alec Waugh, [December 1939] (f. 51 verso), Sir Kenneth Barnes, 4 April 1940 (f. 57 verso), and Horace Horsnell, 2 April 1940 (f. 58). One letter from 'Effie', [January 1940], discusses the state of Ménie Muriel FitzGerald's health (f. 35 verso). The press cuttings include several political cartoons relating to the war (ff. 39 verso, 52-53 verso).
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Affected by damp; some leaves loose.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23721B.
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- Dowie, Ménie Muriel, 1867-1945 -- Health. (Subject)
- Oliver, Arthur (Subject)
- Onions, Oliver, 1873-1961 (Subject)
- Baum, Vicki, 1888-1960. (Subject)
- Heal, Edith Florence Digby, 1880-1946. (Subject)
- Thorne, Anthony. (Subject)
- Sitwell, Osbert, 1892-1969. (Subject)
- Dowie, Ménie Muriel, 1867-1945. (Subject)
- Williams, Alice Helena Alexandra, 1863-1957. (Subject)
- Turner, Bradwell Talbot, 1907-1990. (Subject)
- Waugh, Alec, 1898-1981 (Subject)
- Barnes, Kenneth Ralph, Sir, 1878-1957. (Subject)
- Horsnell, Horace, 1882-1949. (Subject)
- Jacob, Naomi Ellington, 1889-1964. (Subject)