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- 1927-1928 (Creation)
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55 ff. with insertions (original pagination 1-100 continued to end) ; 320 x 200 mm. and less.
Quarter-cloth and marbled paper over boards; 'NOTES November 1927 1928 PARIS. WINDSOR. ABERDOVEY.' (label on front cover).
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Notebook of Berta Ruck, November 1927-May 1928, containing journal entries including an account of her visit to France (pp. 1-12), the deaths of her aunt, Sister Mary Gabriel (Mary D'Arcy), on 15 December 1927, and her mother, Elizabeth, on 10 March 1928, and drafts of articles. Thirty-three letters, cards and telegrams from family and friends and ephemera have been pasted in.
The correspondents include Alec Waugh, [1928] (p. 42), Rebecca West, 20 February 1928 (p 57), Ménie Muriel Fitzgerald, [March 1928] (p. 64), Marda Vanne, [March 1928] (p. 77), Capt. Geoffrey de Havilland, 7 November 1928 (p. 103), Sir E. Ray Lankester, [November 1928] (p. 104), and Vyvyan Holland, 25 November 1928 (p. 107). A photograph, 1923, of Ruck with her parents is on p. 62; ink sketches by her are on pp. 1, 5, 21, 29, 47, 106. A menu for a Forum Club Welsh Group dinner, 12 December 1927, signed by David Lloyd George, is on p. 15. There are also references to the death of Thomas Hardy, January 1928 (pp. 36-37), and an anecdote relating to Colette, the French novelist (p. 8). The volume includes three folios, November 1928 (pp. 103-108), and two letters (ff. i b-e), removed from other volumes.
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English, French.
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Bindings disintegrating; some leaves loose; affected by damp.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23738D.
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- Ruck, Berta, 1878-1978 -- Photographs. (Subject)
- Ruck, Elizabeth Eleanor, 1852-1928 -- Death and burial (Subject)
- Mary Gabriel, Sister, 1850-1927 -- Death and burial. (Subject)
- Lloyd George, David, 1863-1945 -- Autographs. (Subject)
- Colette, 1873-1954. (Subject)
- Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Death and burial. (Subject)
- Waugh, Alec, 1898-1981 (Subject)
- Dowie, Ménie Muriel, 1867-1945. (Subject)
- Vanne, Marda, 1896-1970 (Subject)
- De Havilland, Geoffrey, Sir, 1882-1965. (Subject)
- Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir, 1847-1929. (Subject)
- Holland, Vyvyan Beresford, 1886-1967. (Subject)
- West, Rebecca, 1892-1983 (Subject)