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- 1940-1941 (Creation)
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69 ff. with insertions ; 205 x 165 mm.
Spiral-bound notebook; 'WAR TIME NOTES Begun JULY 16 1940' (label on front cover); 'L35' (ink on back cover).
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Notebook of Berta Ruck, July 1940-June 1941, containing journal entries and comments on the progress of the war. Press cuttings relating to contemporary events, other ephemera and seventy-three letters, postcards and telegrams, May 1940-March 1941, mostly to the author, have been pasted in.
The correspondents include Michael Joseph, 12 July 1940 (f. 2), Harold Nicolson, 3 June 1940 (f. 2 verso), Helen Rees ('Jane Oliver'), 16 August 1940 (f. 10 verso), Robert Owen Morris, 19 August 1940 (f. 12 verso), Maurice Bowra, December 1940-February 1941 (ff. 26, 66 verso), Tony Thorne, August-September 1940 (ff. 32 verso, 35), Dolf Wyllarde, 27 November 1940 (f. 34 verso), Peter Wykeham-Barnes, [December 1940] (f. 35 verso), Alys Meirion, October-December 1940 (ff. 36 verso, 45 verso), Angela Thirkell, 8 November 1940 (f. 45), Edith Heal, 18 December 1940 (f. 47), Marda Vanne, November-December 1940 (ff. 50 verso-51), Bradwell T. Turner, 12 May 1940 (f. 53 verso), and Alec Waugh, 8 January 1941 (f. 54a-b). A photograph of Ruck is on f. 5 verso and there are pen drawings by her on ff. 10, 23. Press cuttings include political cartoons by David Low, from the Evening Standard (ff. 2 verso, 29 verso, 30 verso, 33 verso, 41, 46, 64 verso-65), and items relating to the deaths of John Llewelyn Rees (ff. 8 verso, 11, 68) and Amy Johnson (ff. 51 verso, 63 verso). Programmes for Christmas events in Aberdyfi and Tywyn, December 1940, are on ff. 38 verso and 48.
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Some leaves loose.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23722B.
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- Rhys, John Llewelyn, 1910-1940 -- Death and burial. (Subject)
- Johnson, Amy, 1903-1941 -- Death and burial. (Subject)
- Ruck, Berta, 1878-1978 -- Photographs. (Subject)
- Joseph, Michael, 1897-1958. (Subject)
- Nicolson, Harold, 1886-1968 (Subject)
- Oliver, Jane, pseud. (Subject)
- Thorne, Anthony. (Subject)
- Wyllarde, Dolf. (Subject)
- Williams, Alice Helena Alexandra, 1863-1957. (Subject)
- Thirkell, Angela Mackail, 1890-1961. (Subject)
- Heal, Edith Florence Digby, 1880-1946. (Subject)
- Wykeham, Peter. (Subject)
- Vanne, Marda, 1896-1970 (Subject)
- Turner, Bradwell Talbot, 1907-1990. (Subject)
- Waugh, Alec, 1898-1981 (Subject)
- Morris, Robert Owen, 1859-1943. (Subject)
- Low, David, 1891-1963. (Subject)
- Bowra, C. M. (Cecil Maurice), 1898-1971 (Subject)