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- 1930-1931 (Creation)
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135 ff. with insertions (102 verso-134 passim inverted text) ; 320 x 195 mm.
Quarter-cloth over boards.
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Notebook of Berta Ruck, May 1930-March 1931, containing journal entries, including accounts of her visits to Sweden, July 1930 (ff. 14-22), Germany, July, November 1930 (ff. 22 verso-28 verso, 69 verso-81 verso), Vienna, Austria, July-August, November-December 1930 (ff. 28 verso-42 verso, 82-91), and the French Riviera, August-September 1930 (ff. 44-61), and notes for fiction. Some fifty-two letters, cards and telegrams from family and friends, photographs, cuttings, programmes and other ephemera have been pasted in.
The correspondents include Marda Vanne, June-[December] 1930 (ff. 4, 62, 91), Oliver Onions, July-[August] 1930 (ff. 13, 30, 53), Alec Waugh, 22 June 1930 (f. 38), Hermon Ould, 30 September 1930 (f. 65 verso), Vicki Baum, 4 November 1930 (f. 78), Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, [December] 1930 (f. 91), Norman Haire, [December] 1930 (f. 114 verso), Vita Sackville-West, 3 November 1930 (f. 121), and Cynthia Stockley, [December] 1930 (f. 129). The volume contains sketches and drawings (ff. 2 verso, 28 verso-29, 48-49, 87, 92 verso, 109, 123 verso) and poetry (ff. 67 verso, 73a-b, 88, 91-92 verso, 94 verso, 101 verso) by Ruck. The photographs include three of her with her sons (inside front cover, ff. 54, 60; the latter was published in A Story-Teller Tells the Truth (London, 1935), facing p. 166). Among the friends and acquaintances referred to in the volume are Ernst Hanfstaengl (79 verso, 80 verso-81 verso) and the writers Rebecca West (ff. 45 verso, 50 verso -51), Geoffrey Moss (ff. 49 verso-50, 54 verso, 57 verso), Vicky Baum (f. 71 verso) and Otto Friedländer (ff. 82 verso, 83, 84).
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English, German, some Swedish.
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Leaves removed between ff. 8 and 9, 10 and 11, 92 and 93; many folios torn out with stubs remaining; f. 1 loose.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23739D.
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- Ruck, Berta, 1878-1978 -- Photographs. (Subject)
- Moss, Geoffrey, 1885-1954. (Subject)
- Baum, Vicki, 1888-1960. (Subject)
- Friedländer, Otto, 1889-1963. (Subject)
- Hanfstaengl, Ernst, 1887-1975 (Subject)
- Ruck, Berta, 1878-1978 -- Travel (Subject)
- Vanne, Marda, 1896-1970 (Subject)
- Onions, Oliver, 1873-1961 (Subject)
- Waugh, Alec, 1898-1981 (Subject)
- Ould, Hermon, 1886-1951. (Subject)
- Baum, Vicki, 1888-1960. (Subject)
- Haire, Norman, 1892-1952 (Subject)
- Stockley, Cynthia, 1883-1936. (Subject)
- Ffrangcon-Davies, Gwen, 1891-1992. (Subject)
- Sackville-West, V. (Victoria), 1892-1962 (Subject)
- West, Rebecca, 1892-1983 (Subject)