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- 1914-1926 (Creation)
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36 ff. (15 verso-16 verso inverted text)
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Fragments of notebooks of Berta Ruck, 1914-1926, containing impressions of travels in England and Merioneth, Wales, 1914-1916 (ff. 1-11), New York, [22]-23 September 1919 (ff. 12-16), Vienna, Austria, 1926 (ff. 17-30 verso), and France, 1926 (ff. 31-36), together with a few notes for fiction. Ephemera (in German) and nine letters, postcards and telegrams, mainly from family, July-August 1926, have been pasted in.
There are references to the First World War, [1914] (f. 2 recto-verso), 1916 (ff. 5 verso, 7 recto-verso), including a description of a Red Cross auction in Corris, Merioneth, 3 June 1916 (f. 7 recto-verso). Ink drawings by Ruck are on ff. 2 verso, 12. A photograph, [1926], of Ruck with her son, Arthur, is on f. 36 verso.
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English, German.
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Many leaves missing.
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The New York section (ff. 12-16) continues directly from the end of NLW MS 23376C, f. 127 verso, and was originally part of that manuscript.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23734C.
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- Ruck, Berta, 1878-1978 -- Photographs. (Subject)
- Oliver, Arthur -- Photographs. (Subject)
- Ruck, Berta, 1878-1978 -- Travel (Subject)