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- 1941-1942 (Creation)
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49 ff. with insertions ; 255 x 205 mm.
Spiral-bound notebook; 'Begun JULY 1941' and '1' (ink on front cover).
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Notebook of Berta Ruck, July 1941-April 1942, containing ideas for fiction, journal entries and comments on the progress of the war. Press cuttings relating to contemporary events and some sixty-six letters, cards, postcards and telegrams to the author, May 1940-April 1942, have been pasted in.
The correspondents include Anthony Thorne, July 1941-January 1942 (ff. 1 verso, 15 verso, 17 verso, 24, 39a), Hermon Ould, 25 July 1941 (f. 1 verso), Emlyn Williams, [1941] (f. 4 verso), Baron Atkin of Aberdovey, 20 November 1941 (f. 18 verso), Edith Heal, [Christmas 1941] (f. 33), Able Seaman E. J. Smith, HMS Cossack, 2 May 1940 (f. 36 verso), Alice Williams, 2 March [1942] (f. 38 verso), and Alec Waugh, 19 February 1942 (f. 47 verso). The journal includes a description of a visit to her sister's house in Llanfachreth, Merioneth, October 1941 (ff. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9).
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23723C.
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- Thorne, Anthony. (Subject)
- Ould, Hermon, 1886-1951. (Subject)
- Atkin, James Richard Atkin, Baron, 1867-1944. (Subject)
- Heal, Edith Florence Digby, 1880-1946. (Subject)
- Williams, Alice Helena Alexandra, 1863-1957. (Subject)
- Waugh, Alec, 1898-1981 (Subject)
- Smith, E. J., Able Seaman. (Subject)
- Williams, Emlyn, 1905-1987 (Subject)