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- 1942-1943 (Creation)
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53 ff. with insertions (ff. 33-34 verso, 35 verso-36 verso, 37 verso, 38 verso-41 verso, 43-48 verso inverted text) ; 225 x 175 mm.
Quarter cloth; 'WAR-TIME NOTES Begun MAY 1942' (label on front cover).
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Notebook of Berta Ruck, May 1942-February 1943, containing notes for fiction, notably for the novels Bread and Grease Paint (London, 1943) (ff. 34-35 verso, 36 verso, 37 verso, 48 verso) and Shining Chance (London, 1944) (ff. 20-25, 28 recto-verso, 33 recto-verso, 37, 38, 39 verso, 40 verso-41 verso, 43-45), and journal entries and comments on the progress of the war (ff. 4-5, 6, 12-19 verso, 38 verso-39). Press cuttings relating to contemporary events and thirty-four letters, cards and telegrams to the author, April 1942-February 1943, have been pasted in.
The correspondents include William Lyon Phelps, 15 September 1942 (f. 5 verso), Osbert Sitwell, [December 1942?] (f. 9), Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, [December 1942] (f. 9 verso), Edith Heal, [December 1942] (f. 11), Anthony Thorne, January-February [1943] (ff. 20a, 27, 51 verso), and Marie Stopes, [December] 1942 (f. 42 verso). There are numerous references to Oliver Onions' illness and hospitalization, January-February 1943 (ff. 12-19 verso). The volume includes a number of pen drawings by the author (ff. 19, 33, 36, 39 verso, 40 verso, 41 verso, 51). Some folios are stubs, containing fragments of text (ff. 26, 27, 29-32, 49-50, 52-53).
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Many leaves removed; f. 2 loose.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23724B.
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- Onions, Oliver, 1873-1961 -- Health. (Subject)
- Phelps, William Lyon, 1865-1943. (Subject)
- Sitwell, Osbert, 1892-1969. (Subject)
- Ffrangcon-Davies, Gwen, 1891-1992. (Subject)
- Heal, Edith Florence Digby, 1880-1946. (Subject)
- Thorne, Anthony. (Subject)
- Stopes, Marie Carmichael, 1880-1958. (Subject)