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- 1945-1946 (Creation)
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92 ff. with insertions (foliated 1-90) ; 320 x 200 mm.
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Notebook of Berta Ruck, Aberdyfi, May 1945-December 1946, containing journal entries including comments on the end of the Second World War and its aftermath and notes for fiction, especially the novel Surprise Engagement (London, 1946) (here called 'They are engaged', ff. 27-73 passim). Some one hundred and forty-six letters, cards and telegrams, mostly from family and friends, January 1945-September 1946, cuttings and other ephemera have been pasted in.
The correspondents include Tony Thorne, January 1945-March 1946 (ff. 4 verso, 12 verso, 17a, 26 verso, 44, 56 verso, 65 verso, 73verso-74 verso, 75 verso, 79 verso), Miriam L. Rothschild, 4 January 1945 (f. 6), Ronald Staples, May-June 1945 (ff. 6, 10 verso), J[oseph] P[eter] T[horp], 6 June 1945 (f. 10 verso), Alec Waugh, July 1945-April [1946] (ff. 22, 75 verso, 80), Vicki Baum, 20 August 1945 (f. 24 verso), Bernard Darwin, 28 August 1945 (f. 26a), Oliver Onions, September-December 1945 (ff. 34, 35, 59 verso), A. E. Chesterton, 26 October 1945 (f. 41), Nancy Rodd [ie. Mitford], 12 January 1946 (f. 43 verso), Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, [11 November 1945] (f. 52 recto-verso), Marda Vanne, 11 November 1945 (f. 53), Osbert Sitwell, November-December 1945 (ff. 54 verso, 58 verso), Maurice Bowra, 22 December [1945] (f. 60 verso), Hermon Ould, 11 March 1946 (f. 74), Esmond Knight, [1946] (f. 75 verso), Ivor Brown, 20 August 1946 (f. 83 verso), Ambrose Heal, 16 September 1946 (f. 87), and C. A. Lejeune, 24 May [1946] (f. 89 verso). The volume contains references to the deaths of her friends Ménie Muriel FitzGerald (f. 1) and Edith Heal (f. 87), and conditions in London after VE Day (ff. 7, 8); also verse (f. 46) and an ink sketch (f. 51 verso) by Ruck. Pasted into the volume are 1945 General Election leaflets for Merioneth (ff. 17, 20 verso, 22), and photographs of Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies and Marda Vanne (f. 86).
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English, Welsh, French.
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Covers missing; leaves missing at end; bindings disintegrating.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23744D.
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- Great Britain. Parliament -- Elections, 1945. (Subject)
- Dowie, Ménie Muriel, 1867-1945 -- Death and burial. (Subject)
- Heal, Edith Florence Digby, 1880-1946 -- Death and burial. (Subject)
- Ffrangcon-Davies, Gwen, 1891-1992 -- Photographs. (Subject)
- Vanne, Marda, 1896-1970 -- Photographs (Subject)
- Thorne, Anthony. (Subject)
- Rothschild, Miriam. (Subject)
- Staples, Ronald. (Subject)
- Thorp, Joseph, 1873-1962. (Subject)
- Waugh, Alec, 1898-1981 (Subject)
- Baum, Vicki, 1888-1960. (Subject)
- Darwin, Bernard, 1876-1961. (Subject)
- Onions, Oliver, 1873-1961 (Subject)
- Chesterton, Ada Elizabeth, 1869-1962. (Subject)
- Mitford, Nancy, 1904-1973. (Subject)
- Ffrangcon-Davies, Gwen, 1891-1992. (Subject)
- Vanne, Marda, 1896-1970 (Subject)
- Sitwell, Osbert, 1892-1969. (Subject)
- Ould, Hermon, 1886-1951. (Subject)
- Knight, Esmond, 1906-1987. (Subject)
- Brown, Ivor John Carnegie, 1891-1974. (Subject)
- Heal, Ambrose, 1872-1959 (Subject)
- Lejeune, C. A. (Caroline Alice), 1897-1973. (Subject)
- Bowra, C. M. (Cecil Maurice), 1898-1971 (Subject)