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- 1934-1935 (Creation)
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44 ff. with insertions ; 320 x 200 mm.
Quarter cloth over boards; 'Autumn 1934. London. Early Spring 1935 London. March 1935 Henley-on-Thames. doing "Memoirs" Henley July '35' (label on front cover); 'Notes begun December 3 1934 Hampstead London' (ink on front cover); 'Notes begun December 1934' (ink on back cover).
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Notebook of Berta Ruck, December 1934-July 1935, containing journal entries and notes for fiction and for her autobiography. Some thirty-seven letters and cards, November 1934-July 1935, as well as press cuttings, photographs, theatre programmes and other ephemera, have been pasted into the volume.
The correspondents include Gwen [Ffrangcon-Davies], [November 1934] (f. 1a verso), Marda Vanne, 24 November 1934 (f. 1g verso), Hermon Ould, [22] December 1934 (f. 13 verso), Alec Waugh, December 1934-[1935] (ff. 16 verso, 28 verso), Vita [Sackville West], 6 January 1935 (f. 20 verso), and A. A. Ruck, 6-16 June 1935 (f. 34 verso, 37). The volume includes accounts of a visit to the 'Flower Medium' (ff. 6 verso, 12-13 verso), a description of Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies and Marda Vanne's cottage in Essex (f. 21), and a brief description of meeting Amy [Johnson] and her husband (f. 44). Ink sketches by Ruck are on ff. 9, 22 verso-23; photographs of her and of family members are on ff. 16 and 34. Cuttings pasted into the volume include her short story 'Selling Rodney' (f. 26) and the obituary for her uncle, Major-General Sir R. M. Ruck, from The Times, 19 March 1935 (f. 27 verso). A call sheet, 28 March 1935, for the film Car of Dreams (1935) is on f. 31.
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English, some German.
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One pasted-in item has been torn loose (f. 33).
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 24031D.
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- Ruck, Berta, 1878-1978 -- Photographs. (Subject)
- Johnson, Amy, 1903-1941 (Subject)
- Ruck, R. M. (Richard Mathews), 1851-1935 -- Death and burial. (Subject)
- Ffrangcon-Davies, Gwen, 1891-1992 -- Homes and Haunts -- England -- Essex. (Subject)
- Vanne, Marda, 1896-1970 -- Homes and Haunts -- England -- Essex (Subject)
- Ffrangcon-Davies, Gwen, 1891-1992. (Subject)
- Vanne, Marda, 1896-1970 (Subject)
- Ould, Hermon, 1886-1951. (Subject)
- Waugh, Alec, 1898-1981 (Subject)
- Ruck, A. A. (Arthur Ashley), 1847-1939 (Subject)
- Sackville-West, V. (Victoria), 1892-1962 (Subject)