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- 1931, [1935] (Creation)
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55 ff. with insertions ; 320 x 195 mm.
Quarter-cloth over boards; 'Notes - begun Windsor March 1931', 'Notes for work begun Henley December 1935' (labels on front cover).
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Notebook of Berta Ruck, March-June 1931, containing journal entries including an account of a visit to Oxford, 16 May 1931 (ff. 28 verso-30), and notes for fiction and other work. Twenty-nine letters, postcards and telegrams, mostly from family and friends, February-June 1931, [December 1935], cuttings, photographs and ephemera have been pasted in.
The correspondents include Oliver Onions, April-May 1931 (ff. 34, 36 verso, 52), Robin Darwin, 20 March 1931 (f. 2 verso), Marda Vanne, 25 May 1931 (f. 8 verso), Alec Waugh, April 1931 (ff. 16 verso-17, 30 verso), and Doris Langley Moore, 12 May 1931 (f. 28); there are also four copy letters from Ruck to her father and others, March-April 1931, [December 1935] (ff. 1 recto-verso, 4-5, 14-15 verso, 38a-b). The volume also contains ink sketches (ff. 27, 30, 42, 44) and verses (ff. 20 verso, 32-33, 36, 40 verso, 44, 46) by Ruck. There are references to Doris Langley Moore's forthcoming biography of E. Nesbit (London, 1933) (ff. 25 verso, 28) and to Gwen Ffrangcon Davies (f. 40 verso). Besides a single copy letter there is no material dating from 1935 onwards (as alluded to on the front cover), presumably having being excised.
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English, German.
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Many leaves torn out after f. 51; ff. 49, 52-55 loose; bindings disintegrating.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23740D.
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- Nesbit, E. (Edith), 1858-1924. (Subject)
- Ffrangcon-Davies, Gwen, 1891-1992. (Subject)
- Vanne, Marda, 1896-1970 (Subject)
- Onions, Oliver, 1873-1961 (Subject)
- Waugh, Alec, 1898-1981 (Subject)
- Darwin, Robert Vere, Sir, 1910-1974. (Subject)
- Moore, Doris Langley, 1902-1989. (Subject)