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Notebook, July 1924-July 1926, of Berta Ruck containing diary entries and impressions of her visits to Switzerland, Paris, Germany and Austria; theatre programmes, letters to her and press cuttings relating to her work and to contemporary events have been pasted in.

Notebook of Berta Ruck, May 1930-March 1931, containing journal entries, including accounts of her visits to Sweden, July 1930 (ff. 14-22), Germany, July, November 1930 (ff. 22 verso-28 verso, 69 verso-81 verso), Vienna, Austria, July-August, November-December 1930 (ff. 28 verso-42 verso, 82-91), and the French Riviera, August-September 1930 (ff. 44-61), and notes for fiction. Some fifty-two letters, cards and telegrams from family and friends, photographs, cuttings, programmes and other ephemera have been pasted in.
The correspondents include Marda Vanne, June-[December] 1930 (ff. 4, 62, 91), Oliver Onions, July-[August] 1930 (ff. 13, 30, 53), Alec Waugh, 22 June 1930 (f. 38), Hermon Ould, 30 September 1930 (f. 65 verso), Vicki Baum, 4 November 1930 (f. 78), Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, [December] 1930 (f. 91), Norman Haire, [December] 1930 (f. 114 verso), Vita Sackville-West, 3 November 1930 (f. 121), and Cynthia Stockley, [December] 1930 (f. 129). The volume contains sketches and drawings (ff. 2 verso, 28 verso-29, 48-49, 87, 92 verso, 109, 123 verso) and poetry (ff. 67 verso, 73a-b, 88, 91-92 verso, 94 verso, 101 verso) by Ruck. The photographs include three of her with her sons (inside front cover, ff. 54, 60; the latter was published in A Story-Teller Tells the Truth (London, 1935), facing p. 166). Among the friends and acquaintances referred to in the volume are Ernst Hanfstaengl (79 verso, 80 verso-81 verso) and the writers Rebecca West (ff. 45 verso, 50 verso -51), Geoffrey Moss (ff. 49 verso-50, 54 verso, 57 verso), Vicky Baum (f. 71 verso) and Otto Friedländer (ff. 82 verso, 83, 84).

Forty-six manuscript and typescript letters, [c. 1890]-[c. 1934], from Berta Ruck, mostly to her father, Col Arthur Ashley Ruck, [1920s]-[c. 1934], containing mainly personal and family news.
Also included are two letters to her grandmother Mary Anne Ruck, [c. 1890] (ff. 1-4), and a carbon copy letter to her sister-in-law, Georgina Ruck, 15 July 1932 (ff. 86-91). Most of the letters were written either from home or while on holiday in Austria, France, Germany and Sweden. There are references to Oliver Onions (ff. 6-100 passim), Geoffrey Moss (f. 6), Sir Ray Lankester (ff. 9 verso, 10 verso-11, 12, 31, 32, 66), Ménie Muriel FitzGerald (ff. 13-17, 18, 29, 46-47, 56, 59), Alec Waugh (ff. 26, 35-36) and Vita Sackville West (f. 46); she also describes her car accident on 14 July 1932 (ff. 88-91). There are ink drawings by Ruck on f. 2 recto-verso.

A journal of a tour of Holland, Germany and France undertaken between 16 July and 17 November 1837. The tour began at Rotterdam and included visits to Scheveringen, Katwig [Katwijk], La Haye [The Hague], Leyden [Leiden], Haarlem, Amsterdam, Broek, Utrecht, Arnheim [Arnhem], Cleves, Dusseldorf, Cologne, Bonn, Andernach, Coblenz [Koblenz], St Goar, Bingen, Rhudesheim [Rudesheim], Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Francfurt [Frankfurt], Fulda, Eisenach, Gotha, Weimar, Leipsig [Leipzig], Meissen, Dresden, Chemnitz, Reichenbach, Bayreuth, Nuremberg [Nurnberg], Ratisbonne [Ratisbon], Landshut, Munchen (Munich), Augsbourg [Augsburg], Ulm, Stutgard [Stutgart], Carlsruhe [Karlsruhe], Baden Baden, Strasbourg, Sarrebourg, Nancy, St Desier, Rheims, Château Thierry and Paris. Among the persons mentioned in the text are Lord and Lady Cawdor, Lord Emlyn and Lady Caroline. At the end of the volume are a few pencil illustrations and an index of places (p. 267).

Two volumes bound in parchment containing a detailed journal by David Pennant, Downing of a tour of France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland. The recorded tour began at Dover on 5 July 1819 and ended at Brussels on 16 June 1820. At the end of each volume are daily weather observations and other memoranda.

The file comprises letters from Eirene White to her parents. The early letters are written from Somerville College, Oxford, and describe her academic life and a wide range of social pursuits and activities. Later letters were written during travels in the United Kingdom and trips abroad; they include letters from Cumberland, London, New York, Virginia, Hamilton, Ontario, Boston and various places in Germany. Most of the letters are full and describe travels and events in some detail.

The file is composed of correspondence and papers deriving from various trips abroad, among them Germany, 1929, a tour of the United States of America, 1958, Hungary, 1972, India, 1972, and the United States, 1986. The correspondence relating to Eirene Jones's visit to Germany in 1929 includes letters exchanged between her and her father Dr Thomas Jones.

Diaries of Mary Caroline Evans Williams of Bryntirion Hall, Rhaeadr, Radnorshire, 1861-1906, and of her daughter, Elizabeth Alice Evans Williams, later E. A. Lewis Lloyd, 1889-1903. Most of the entries are brief, apart from those detailing vacations in Germany, 1861-1862, and Belguim, 1897 and 1906.

Photographs taken during Lloyd George's visit to Germany in 1936.

Most of the cuttings are of articles by Gareth Jones describing conditions in Russia following his visits to the country, many of them on the Five Year Plan of economic recovery introduced by Stalin and the terrible famine in the country the holodomor). There are also a few cuttings on the United States and Hitler's Germany.

Press articles written by Gareth Jones in national newspapers on Russia, Germany (mainly on the impact of Hitler), the situation in Ireland, the United States, and a few on central Europe.

The folder is marked 'American articles', and many of the cuttings are of articles written by Gareth Jones during his 'Round the World' tour in the spring of 1935. There are also a few cuttings during previous years written on Russia and Germany.