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- 1935 (Creation)
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82 ff. with insertions ; 230 x 180 mm.
Quarter-cloth and paper over boards.
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Notebook of Berta Ruck, July-December 1935, containing journal entries, including an account of visits to Zurich, Switzerland, August 1935 (ff. 15 verso-17), and Vienna and Klagenfurt, Austria, August-September 1935 (ff. 18-38), and notes for fiction. Some thirty-nine letters, postcards and telegrams, 1933-1935, photographs, cuttings, theatre programmes (in German) and other ephemera have been pasted in.
The correspondents include Oliver Onions, July 1935 (ff. 6, 9), her father, A. A. Ruck, July-August 1935 (ff. 8 verso, 25 verso), Ferdinand Deutelmoser, July-August 1935 (ff. 9 verso, 37), Ivan Phillipowsky, 27 November 1935 (f. 55), and Marda Vanne, [24] October 1935 (ff. 59). The volume also contains ink sketches and drawings by Ruck (ff. 42, 57, 66, 70 recto-verso, 72 verso, 73 verso, 75, 79) and photographs of her, [1904?] (inside front cover), [1935] (f. 79 verso). A number of the press cuttings (ff. 60a, 64 verso-65, 66 verso, 68 verso, 70 verso) relate to her autobiography, A Story-teller Tells the Truth (London, 1935); there are also references to the death of her friend Arthur Watts in an aeroplane accident on 20 July 1935 (ff. 4 verso-5, 6, 8 verso, 9 verso, 10, 11 verso).
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English, German.
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Bindings disintegrating.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23742C.
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- Ruck, Berta, 1878-1978 -- Photographs. (Subject)
- Watts, Arthur, 1883-1935 -- Death and burial. (Subject)
- Ruck, Berta, 1878-1978 -- Travel -- Austria (Subject)
- Onions, Oliver, 1873-1961 (Subject)
- Ruck, A. A. (Arthur Ashley), 1847-1939 (Subject)
- Deutelmoser, Ferdinand, 1875-1941. (Subject)
- Phillipowsky, Ivan, 1895-1951. (Subject)
- Vanne, Marda, 1896-1970 (Subject)